Oral Tradition and Epics
We read an excerpt of this epic from ancient Greece.
What is The Odyssey?
This is a key difference between the monsters in older stories and monsters now.
What is they do not look monstrous?
This is a collection of words which expresses a thought.
What is a sentence?
Gives all the background information you need for the rest of the story.
What is exposition?
Stratford-on-Avon
Where was Shakespeare born?
This is the ideal length of a resume.
What is one page?
We read an excerpt of this Anglo-Saxon epic?
What is Beowulf?
These often represent what a society loves and admires.
What are heroes?
This is a collection of sentences developing one key thought.
What is a paragraph?
This is the turning point where the two sides of a conflict can no longer coexist.
What is the climax?
This is the theater where most of Shakespeare's play were performed.
What is The Globe?
This is a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
These are long stories, often poems about heroes and monsters.
What are epics?
These often portray what a society fears or hates.
What are monsters?
This is more than one thought written as one simple sentence.
What is a run-on?
When the audience knows something the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
They predicted Macbeth would be king?
Who are the Weird Sisters (the witches)?
"Ronald McDonald is the Pennywise of meat products" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This is one of the most common traits of an oral narrative, so people can tell them to others?
What is easy to memorize?
This is how Beowulf defeated Grendel.
What is ripped his arm off?
This is part of a thought written as a complete sentence.
What is a Fragment?
When reality contradicts expectation.
What is situational irony?
They were for framed for killing King Duncan.
Who are the guards?
School and business writing should have this tone.
What is formal/academic tone?
This helps societies pass down cultural value, especially before literacy was common.
What is oral tradition?
He was the cyclops Odysseus outsmarted and defeated.
Who is Polyphemus?
This is how writers correctly begin every sentence, proper noun, or proper pronoun?
What is a capital letter?
The lesson we learn about life from a piece of literature.
What is the theme?
He was the one prophesied to kill Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
This is the ONLY difference between a right theme and a wrong theme.
What is evidence?