Words, baby, Words
Introduces characters; the time and place of a story.
Includes the following: exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action.
What is plot?
Definition of alliteration.
What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
Reason General Zaroff gives for being bored with hunting.
What is "he wanted a more challenging quarry."
IE- He wanted to hunt more intelligent animals that would be more challenging to catch. HUMANS!
Odysseus’ father.
Who is Laertes?
a prayer or address to the Muse that acts as a prologue for events to come.
What is invocation?
Perspective from which the story is told-1st, 2nd, 3rd
What is point of view?
Definition of flashback.
What is recounts an event from earlier in the story?
General Zaroff’s attitude towards hunting (after he becomes bored with hunting animals) can best be described as
What is discontent?
What ultimately kills Odysseus’s men on their journey home?
Athena
Their Foolishness
Their lack of knowledge of the sea
Odysseus being their leader
What is "their foolishness"?
Think about...who was responsible for opening the bag of wind from Aeolus, the wind god; who ate Helio's cattle
What is the phrase the anchors say that ends WTV7 each Friday?
What is "make it a great day Woodstock!"
a comparison of 2 things using like or as that extends over more than one line
What is epic simile?
Definition of tone.
What is the author’s attitude toward his or her subject?
The name of the man that helps General Zaroff on his island (Rainsford kills him with a trap meant for the General)!
Who is Ivan?
After Odysseus kills Antinous, Eurymachus does what to avert bloodshed and save his own life as well as the lives of the other suitors.
What is...he blames Antinous, whom Odysseus has already killed?
How many people are in your class period?
1st- 30
2nd-29
4th- 24
5th-11
6th- 15
Latin for “In the middle of things”
What is "in medias res"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!
One way to fix a comma splice other than a period or a semi-colon.
Ex: Mary-Ann went to the store with Jeff, they bought apple pie.
What is add a SWABI (since, when, after, because, if) to the middle of the sentence.
What is add a FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) to the middle of the sentence.
What is add a THAMO (therefore, however, also, meanwhile, otherwise)- a semi-colon before the word and a comma after the word.
A literary element that the reader uses to confirm Rainsford kills General Zaroff at the end of the story (even though the author ends on a cliff hanger).
IE- The answer is one word
What is inference?
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Which part of this quote is an epithet?
"When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world, the Cyclops built a fire and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order, putting the sucklings to the mothers" (Homer 820).
What is "young Dawn with fingertips of rose"?
Ms. Douyon's first name.
Who is Tyra?
A descriptive word or phrase that characterizes- Odysseus, Raider of Cities
What is epithet?
Proper MLA citation for a quote (using the name of an author we read this year).
(Anderson 68).
(Connell 68).
(Wetherell 68).
(Homer 68).
(Buzzati 68).
One of the traps that Rainsford uses to try and kill General Zaroff.
(If you don't remember the exact name you will need to describe TWO of the traps)
What is the "Malay Man-catcher"? involving a large tree falling on anyone who sets off the trigger
What is "Burmese Tiger Pit"? where someone falls into a camouflaged hole with stakes at the bottom
What is "Ugandan Spring Trap"? where a knife is tied to a loose sapling that springs forward
Odysseus and his men do what to escape Polyphemus cave?
What is riding underneath the sheep’s bellies?
Name of all the vice principals at this school.
Who is Ms. Biello, Dr. Roth, Ms. Henson, Dr. Gagnon, Mr. Bennett?