What is the time and place of a story-- where and when the action is set?
100
simile
What is a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
100
hubris
What is the Greek fault of being too proud, especially of forgetting to thank the gods or feeling like you don't need the gods to help you?
100
Oedipus
What is the man who kills his father, marries his mother, solves the riddle of the Sphinx?
100
Scout
What is the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird, a six year old girl from whose point of view we see the story?
200
Protagonist
What is the main character with whom the audience most closely identifies; the "hero" of a story
200
alliteration
What is the repetition of consonat sounds, such as "soft silent snow"?
200
Tragedy
What is a type of play where the hero is unable to overcome the obstacles against him or her, and is defeated at the end? (sad ending)
200
Odysseus
What is the character who makes Poseidon angry and is unable to sail home to his kingdom in Ithaca for many many years, and instead faces many adventures and tests before he can go home to his wife and son?
200
The Nurse
What is the person who raised Juliet and always gives her practical, down-to-earth advice?
300
Point of view
What is the perspective from which a story is told, for example, 1st person, 3rd person omniscient, etc?
300
hyperbole
What is an over-exaggeration, often for comic effect?
300
soliloquoy
What is a speech where the actor is alone on stage and thinks aloud to the audience?
300
Telemachus
What is the boy whose father left for the Trojan War on the day he is born, and who must grow up watching his mother try to fight off many would-be suitors?
300
Bob Ewell
What is the person who actually beat up Mayella Ewell and tried to kill Jem and Scout, but instead is killed by Boo Radley?
400
Dynamic character
What is a character who changes over the course of story because of the events in that story?
400
Iambic Pentameter
What is the term for verse written in lines of ten syllables, alternating unstressed and stressed patterns, such as used in most of Shakespeare's plays?
400
aside
What is a short line delivered on stage where the audience is intended to hear the line, but not the other actors? (often done as a stage whisper)
400
Tiriesas
What is the blind prophet who knew the truth?
400
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson
Who are two characters who are the strongest answer for being the "mockingbird" symbols in To Kill a Mockingbird? (must get both)
500
Rising action
What is the part of a story where the 1st conflicts are introduced?
500
Oxymoron
What is a phrase that uses two opposites for poetic effect, such as "dark daylight" "jumbo shrimp" or "cold fire"?
500
anagnorisis
What is the moment in a Greek tragedy where the protagonist finally realizes or recognizes he or she is responsible for his or her own downfall?