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Literary Terms
Mythology
Romeo and Juliet
Grammar
Characters
100
Prediction made using given information and prior knowledge
What is an inference?
100
The city Odysseus was trying to return to after the Trojan War
What is Ithaca?
100
The person who killed Paris
Who is Romeo?
100
A phrase does not contain both a _____ or a _____
What is subject or verb?
100
The ruler of Verona
Who is the Prince?
200
The rhythm established in a poem
What is meter?
200
This goddess helped Odysseus throughout his journey
Who is Athena?
200
This killed Lady Montague
What is grief?
200
Identify the part of sentence "Alex" is: [Because of his birthday, I'm going to get a gift for Alex.]
What is object of the preposition?
200
The "jerkline skinner" of the ranch
Who is Slim?
300
Word/phrase used in a nonliteral sense used to help express something/emphasize it
What is figure of speech?
300
The number of siblings Zeus had
What is five? (Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Demeter)
300
The reason Romeo went to the Capulet party
What is to look at women?
300
A noun that renames another noun beside itself
What is an appositive?
300
The cyclops in "The Odyssey"
Who is Polyphemus?
400
A narrator that knows the thoughts/feelings of every character (all knowing)
What is an omniscient narrator?
400
Odysseus' men were turned into pigs by this witch-goddess
Who is Circe?
400
Type of meter spoken by upper-class people
What is iambic pentameter?
400
When two independent clauses are combined using only a comma
What is a comma splice?
400
He was killed because he was mistaken for the "beast"
Who is Simon?
500
Language/dialect spoken by people in a particular region
What is vernacular?
500
The parents of Zeus
Who are Cronus and Rhea?
500
The two cities where the play takes place
What are Verona and Mantua?
500
[Phrases are (always/sometimes/never) sentences] [Clauses are (always/sometimes/never) sentences]
What is [Phrases = Never] [Clauses = Sometimes]
500
He was a blind poet
Who is Homer?