This type of sentence contains 2 independent clauses that are joined by a coordinating conjunction and a comma.
What is a compound sentence?
100
This is something that every tragic hero possesses that causes his or her downfall.
What is a tragic flaw?
100
This character accompanies Gilgamesh into the Cedar Forest.
Who is Enkidu?
100
This hero determines to complete a quest to prove himself worthy of the throne for which he was previously too young to assume.
Who is Jason?
100
"It was not God's proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws. Your edict, King, was strong" (1. 2. 66-67).
Who is Antigone?
200
This acronym represents the coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
200
This is the term for the character in a story who must face a problem and around whom the story focuses.
What is the protagonist.
200
This famous king created the first systematic code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
This hero finds a tragic end but does not die in the story.
Who is Creon?
200
"Good. That is the way to behave: subordinate/ Everything else, my son, to your father's will./ This is what a man prays for, that he may get/ Sons attentive and dutiful in his house" (2. 3. 13-15).
Who is Creon?
300
These are the most common subordinating conjunctions, referred to by Mrs. Reger as AAAWWUUBBIS.
What is although, after, as, when, while, until, unless, before, because, if, since?
300
This system of writing used wedge-like shapes that were carved into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
300
This wise prophet warned Creon to change his ways lest he experience his own tragedy.
Who is Tiresias?
300
This hero receives assistance from the king's daughter and encounters a father and son along his journey home.
Who is Theseus?
300
This protagonist asks Utnapishtim for the secret to immortality.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
This is a type of comma error in which two independent clauses are joined by a comma.
What is a comma splice?
400
This is the Greek word for pride, the most common tragic flaw.
What is hubris?
400
This sister is conflicted between loyalty to her family and obedience to the law of the state.
What is Ismene?
400
This hero does not achieve his or her goal but is able to accept the final outcome.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
"When Marduk sent me to rule over men, to give the protection of right to the land, I did right and righteousness in . . . , and brought about the well-being of the oppressed"
Who is Hammurabi?
500
The following sentences are missing this type of word.
Gilgamesh fights with Enkidu. They become friends. Enkidu dies. Gilgamesh mourns his death.
What are transitions?
500
This the Greek word for tragic flaw.
What is hamartia?
500
This character is the leader of the chorus in Greek plays and often speaks boldly in Antigone.
Who is the Choragos?
500
This hero's forgetfulness results in the tragic death of his father.
Who is Theseus?
500
"Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right/ to warn me against losing mine. I cannot say-/ I hope that I shall never want to say!- that you/ have reasoned badly" (2. 3. 55-58).