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Poetry
Shakespeare
Gods and Goddess'
The Odyssey 1
The Odyssey 2
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What do you call a type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect?
What is A Poem
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When one person is speaking on stage without interruption for an extended length of time?
What is A Monologue
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The goddess of wisdom and war.
What is Athena
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Long narrative poems that tell of the adventures of heroes who in some way represent the values of their civilization.
What is an Epic
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Where do Odysseus and his men stop first?
What is Cicones
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What do you call groups of lines?
What is A Stanza
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Long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage.
What is Soliloquy
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The god of the sun and of music.
What is Apollo
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What is the name of the Epic that focuses on the days toward the end of the Trojan War?
What is The Iliad
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How does Odysseus get his men of the Lotus Eaters Island?
Odysseus has to drag them back to the ship and tie them down, and make them row away.
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The name of the "beat" of a poem—the sound created by repeating stressed and unstressed syllables?
What is Rhythm
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A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true.
What is Dramatic Irony
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The goddess of agriculture.
What is Demeter
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Is larger than life, has uncommon strength, has exceptional knowledge, has a fatal flaw these are all characteristics of what?
What is An Epic hero
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How do Odysseus and his men escape the Cyclops?
Odysseus and his men attach themselves to the underside of the sheep and escape.
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A common meter in English poetry is?
What is Iambic Pentameter
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"But, WOE is ME, you ARE so SICK of LATE,?So FAR from CHEER and FROM your FORmer STATE,?That I disTRUST you. YET, though I disTRUST,?DisCOMfort YOU, my LORD, it NOthing MUST….." This quote is an example of?
What is Blank verse, unrhymed verse using iambic pentameter.
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The goddess of Discord.
Who is Eris
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What is Odysseus' fatal flaw and in what story so far do we see this?
What is Excessive pride or arrogance. The Cyclops
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The classical tradition of opening an epic not in the chronological point at which the sequence of events would start, but rather at the midway point of the story.
What is In Media res
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A poem portraying an expressive thought or idea made up of 14 lines, each being 10 syllables long.
What is A Sonnet
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"Death hath sucked the honey of thy breath..." This quote is an example of?
What is Personification
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Fathered the first of the Olympians. Swallowed his children except for Zeus.
What is Cronos
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"I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping --So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant's eye."
What is Homeric Simile or Epic Simile
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Another word for the Greek relationship between two people from different regions.
What is Xenia