I went to the store to buy _______ (healthy, healthful) snacks.
What is healthful?
100
He went to prison for supposdily having connections with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Who is Edmond Dantes?
100
This is the home of Odysseus.
What is Thebes?
100
This person is sent by Oedipus to go to Apollo's shrine in Delphi so that he can know what to do to save Thebes.
Who is Kreon?
100
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What is a simile?
200
_______ (Take, Bring) me the cup of water that I laid on the table.
What is bring?
200
To get revenge on those who put him through pain and suffering?
What is Dantes' main goal when he gets out of prison?
200
These are the people that Odysseus is telling the stories to.
Who are the court of King Alcinous?
200
This person is a blind prophet who tells Oedipus that he is the murder of Laos and the one who caused the plague.
Who is Teiresias?
200
An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
300
We walked _______ (further, farther) into the jungle.
What is farther?
300
The reason for this action was to get an invite to Paris and be connected to the people he wants to see, one of them being Albert's mother, Mercedes.
Why does Monte Cristo plan the kidnapping of Albert?
300
This is a greek concept of hospitality.
What is xenia?
300
This person does not believe in prophecy because she left her son on a mountain to die when he was professed to kill his father and sleep with his mother.
Why does Jocasta not believe in prophecy?
300
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman,
What is personification?
400
I played _______ (a while, awhile) before going to school.
What is awhile?
400
This person is Valentine's love interest and asks her to run away with him before she is married off to Fernand Mondego.
Who is Maximilian Morrel?
400
Swineherd (Eumaeus) and Cowherd (Philoeteus)
Who are the two people that Odysseus revels himself to before the test of the bow?
400
The Corinthian messenger indicates that Corinthian monarchs Polybus and Merope are not Oedipus' biological parents. He informs Oedipus of his birth in Thebes. His information is corroborated and expanded upon by the Theban shepherd. The shepherd mentions that Oedipus is actually the son of Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta. He reveals that Oedipus' parents arrange to have him killed because of a prophecy that he will grow up to kill his father. Oedipus realizes that the man he killed at a crossroad was his father.
How does Oedipus find out the truth?
400
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance in a literary work.
What is an allusion?
500
I am going to go _______ (lay, lie) down because my head hurts.
What is lie?
500
Wait and Hope.
What is the advice the Count gives to Maximilian and Valentine in his letter?
500
He does not want his men to loose all hope and he wants to avoid chaos.
Why doesn't Odysseus tell his men that he will be the only survivor?
500
To punish himself his stabs his eyes out and banishes himself from Thebes so that he die in the mountains like he was supposed to die. He also gives his Kreon the position as king and leaves him his daughters/sisters.
What does Oedipus do to himself as punishment?
500
it usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle