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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 epic | a long narrative poem which celebrates the deeds of legendary heroes |
| epic hero | a man who seems to conquer most problems he encounters and who is usually protected by or descended from the gods but does not have god like powers himself |
| epic simile | an extended simile that usually compares one complex concept with another .They are usually the length of a paragraph |
| epithets | an adjective or phrase which delineates a personality by the attributes possessed by th |
| in medias res | a Latin expression meaning the story begins in the middle of the action |
| irony | a subtle , sometimes humorous perception of inconsistency ,in which the significance of a statement or event is changed by its content. ex:The firehouse burned down. |
| symbol | an object, person ,or place that has meaning in itself and also stands for something larger than itself,usually an idea or concept;some concrete thing which represents an abstraction |
| invocation | the act of calling on the gods for inspiration or help |
| Muse | any of the nine goddesses who preside over literature or the arts |
| Who wrote Last to Leave Home | Carolyn Baker |
| Who Wrote The Chosen | Chaim Potok |
| Who Wrote A Seperate Peace | John Knowles |
| Protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction |
| Antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story |
| Who Wrote Amnesty | Nadine Gordimer |
| Who Wrote The Guest | Albert Camus |
| Who Wrote Half A Day | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Who Wrote The Handsomest Drowned Man | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Who Wrote War | Luigi Pirandello |
| Who Wrote Eveline | James Joyce |
| Who was Mark Simpson | The mentally challenged brother of Carolyn Simpson in Last to Leave Home |
| What is a LAR | Legally Authorized Representative, or someone who makes choices for someone who is mentally impaired |
| Who was Mark's LAR | Diane Simpson, Mark's older sister |
| Where did Mark Work | At a shelter home |
| Why did Mark need a defibrulator | He had an irregular heart beat, and sleep apneia |
| Where is Last to Leave Home Set | Rural Virginia |
| Why do Mark's siblings make a graduation for Mark, and from where | So he doesn't feel left out, Simpson Farm School |
| When Mark dies, what does his family make for him | A basket of his favorite things |
| What does Reuven's father want his son to become | A mathematics professor |
| What Historical Event is Taking place during the book | World War 2 |
| Where do Reuven and Danny First Meet | At the baseball game |
| Why is Reuven sent to the Hospital | He has glass in his eye from the baseball breaking his glasses |
| Why might Reuven never see again | Scar tissue on his retina |
| When Roosevelt was killed, Reuven compares it to | Mickey's blindness |
| Danny's Father is | A rabbi |
| Why is Danny expected to Become a Rabbi | Because it is an inherited position |
| Define tzaddik | spiritual leader of a Hasidic community |
| Define tzitzit | the fringes on the corners of a Jewish prayer shawl also a reminder to Jews of God's commandments |
| Define Yeshiva | Jewish parochial school |
| Mr. Malter's Cold Forshadows | His heart attack |
| What year does a Seperate Peace begin in | 1942 |
| What parralels the story | World War 2 |
| What two places does Gene make a point of visiting when he returns to his school | The Tree and The Stairs |
| Where does Gene go to school | Devon |
| what does Gene do at the tree by the river | Jumps off the highest branch into the river |
| What is the name of the club that Gene and Finny establish | The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session |
| What does Finny wear that causes such a stir at Mr. Patch-Withers's tea party | Devon School tie as a belt |
| What school record does Finny break | Swimming Record |
| How does Finny fall from the tree | Gene's knees bend and he jounces the tree limb |
| What does Dr. Stanpole tell Gene about Finny's injury | his days of playing sports are over |
| Where does Gene tell Finny the truth about what happened | In Finny's home |
| What job does Gene take to avoid playing on a sports team | Assistant crew manager |
| Who accuses Gene of having killed Finny | Brinker |
| Foil | a character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another |
| Who was Brinker's Foil | Leper |
| What does Brinker try to persuade Gene to do | Enlist in the military |
| Why doesn't Gene join the army | He feels that Finny doesn't want him to because Finny denies the existence of any war at all |
| Why is Finny training Gene | The 1944 Olympics |
| What happens to Leper in the military | He has hallucinations and then deserts |
| Who organizes the "trial" to determine what caused Finny's fall from the tree | Brinker |
| Who testifies that Gene knocked Finny off the tree | The insane, halucinating Leper |
| How does Finny break his leg the second time | He falls down a flight of steps |
| How does Finny die | bone marrow enters his bloodstream and stops his heart |
| What is the setting of Amnesty | Apartheid era South Africa |
| What is the setting of The Guest | Algeria under French control |
| What is the setting of Half A Day | A School in Cairo |
| What is the setting of The handsomest drowned Man | A Coastal Village in South America |
| What is the setting of War | A second class rail car in winter in France |
| What is the setting of Eveline | Ireland |
| What is the plot of Amnesty | A poor girl in South Africa who's husband joins a union and gets thrown in jail on the Island gets a close look at how Apartheid falls |
| What is the plot of The Guest | Darus lives on a plateua in Algeria and recieves an Algerian man held as a french criminal and has to guide him to jail, but decides to let him choose for himself |
| What is the plot of Half a Day | An Egyptian Man in Cairo watches his whole life flash before his eyes in the course of a single school day |
| What is the plot of Handsomest drowned Man | In a small village a body floats ashore, it is large, well built and the most beautiful thing any of them have ever seen, They have a funeral for him and work hard for the rest of their lives to do him honor |
| What is the Plot of War | A woman grieving because her son was sent to the front line in WW 1 hears the story of a man who's only son died and of a man who's three sons and 2 cousins died |
| What is the plot of Eveline | A woman in Ireland tries to leave her miserable life there to go to Brazil with her fiance, but at the last moment decides not to |
| What is the structure of a Thesis Essay | 1. Thesis Statement 2. Supporting Argument 1 3. Supporting Argument 2 4. Supporting Argument 3 5. Summary |
| setting | The time and place of a story |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| Theme | The main idea of the story |
| forshadowing | the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| tone | The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters |
| dialect | a regional variety of a language |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more people |
| mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| What are the 5 stages of a plot | Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution |
| conflict | the problem or problems characters face in a literary work |
| Define It's | It is |
| Define Its | It possess |
| Passive Voice | The subject is having the verb done to it |
| Active voice | The subject is doing the verb |
| First Person | The Narrator is the main character |
| Third Person limited | The narrator is outside of the story and only knows what is said |
| Third Person Omniscient | The Narrator knows everything |
| What is Penelope's archery contest | One of the suitors must string Odysseus's bow, and fire it through 12 axes |
| What plant makes the sailors forget their desire to return home | Lotus |
| How does Athena disguise herself to make preparations for Telemachus's journey | As Mentor |
| Who first finds Odysseus on the island of Scheria | Nausicaa, Daughter of the King |
| Menelaus is king of what city | Sparta |
| People begin to recognize Odysseus based on | A scar on his leg |
| How is Odysseus able to listen safely to the Sirens' song | He has his men bind him to the ship's mast |
| What do his men do during this | They put beeswax in their ears |
| In Hades, Who begs Odysseus to give him a proper burial | Elpenor, the man who fell off the roof and broke his neck |
| Of what did Odysseus's mother die | Grief |
| How old is Telemachus at the start of the epic | Early twenties |
| What are the first four books called | The Telemachy |
| What does Tiresias warn Odysseus not to harm | The cattle of the Sun |
| Who transforms Odysseus's sailors into pigs | Circe |
| Which goddess often assists Odysseus and Telemachus | Athena |
| Why does Poseidon despise Odysseus | Odysseus blinded his son |
| Who does Zeus send to rescue Odysseus from Calypso | Hermes |
| What did Ajax do to bring disaster upon the homecoming Greek fleet | He raped Cassandra. |
| How long does Odysseus spend on Calypso's island | Seven years |
| What is the Charibdis | A whirlpool |
| Define Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| Define Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics to animals or Gods |
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