Literary Devices
Highest point of tension in a story
What is climax?
Wrote Oedipus Rex
Who is Sophocles?
Literary character designed to draw attention to another character by possessing opposite traits
What is foil?
Meaning of the word Ilium.
What is Troy?
Missionaries best form of communication in Ecuador as described in Through the Gates of Splendor
What is the radio?
Exaggeration to make a point
What is hyperbole?
Blind poet who wrote The Iliad
What is Homer
Missionary pilot in Ecuador who was killed by the Auca Indians
Who was Nate Saint?
Illness greatly feared by the Indian tribes in Ecuador.
What is the grippe, or the flu?
“I work hard for a sufficient living, and therefore-yes, I do well.”
Who was Pip?
Human traits and emotions are attributed to nature
What is pathetic fallacy?
Penned these words, "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose..."
Who is Jim Eliott?
Pip's teacher who married Joe
Who was Biddy?
Two elements of an epic Greek poem.
In medias res, Epithets, larger than life characters/adventures, epic similes, invocation of the muse
Hektor's wife
Who was Andromache?
Saying one thing while meaning its opposite
What is irony?
Victorian author who rose from poverty to great acclaim...Author of A Christmas Carol
Who was Charles Dickens?
Pip's benefactor
Who was Magwich?
Achilles' anger against Agamemnon drives him to attempt which rash action which is stopped by Athena.
What is killing Agamemnon with a spear?
Notorious, Victorian London prison where Magwich was held
What is Newgate?
Literally attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects (talking animals etc)
What is anthropomorphism?
Who spoke these words,
“Then let me die at once- since it was not my fate
to save my dearest comrade from his death"?
Who was Achilles?
This married woman became Paris's wife due to a contest between three gods.
Who was Helen of Troy?
Achilles's mother
Who was Thetis?
Name given to the main Auca housing area by the missionaries before they were killed
Terminal Station