1St Semester English

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Acheron

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river in the underworld

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Achilles

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Greek hero in the Illiad

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Aeneas

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Trojan hero from the Aneid, founds rome

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Agamemnon

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Greek King, dishonors Achilles, from Iliad

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Anchises

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Aeneas' father, in underworld

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Andromache

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Female, wife of Hector

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Antagonist

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The "bad guy" in the epics

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Apollo

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Greek god of the sun

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Arete

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honor physical and mental excellence

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Argives

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Greeks

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Astyanax

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Hector's son

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Athena

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Goddess of wisdom and battle strategy

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Briseis

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Achilles prize, fron iliad

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calchas

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Seer for the Greeks

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Carthage

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Kingdom in North Africa, didos domain

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Catharsis

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Purging of the audience's soul and unclean emotion

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Cerberus

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Three headed guard dog of the underworld

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Ekwefi

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Okonkwos second wife

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Elysium

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Part of the underworld where the successful and hardworking people go

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Epic simile

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Long simile to describe in detail

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Ergon

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Good, hard work (doing duty)

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Enzima

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Okonkwos daughter (obanje)

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hades

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Brother of Zeus, king of the underworld

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hamartia

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fatal flaw

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hector

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Hero of Troy fights Achilles in the Iliad

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helen

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paris' bride/prize

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hephaestus

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God of forging, blacksmith of the gods

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Hermes

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Messenger of the gods

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Homer

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wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

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hubris

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Excessive pride or arrogance

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imagery

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Writing descriptively to appeal to senses

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in medias res

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In the middle of things

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jocasta

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oedipus' wife/mom

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lauis

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oedipus' father

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Laocoön

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Threw spear at Trojan horse eaten by serpents

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Male/Female crime

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Male crime is on purpose, female crime is on accident

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Merope

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Oedipus' adopted mom

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Charon

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ferryman of the underworld

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chi

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Personal God

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chinua achebe

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Author of "things fall apart"

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Chorus

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Supporting characters, help to form plot, represent what the audience might think

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Chryseis

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daughter of chryses, agamemnons prize

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chryses

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father of chryseis, pruest of apollo

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comedy

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A play that ends well

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corinth

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Place in Greece where Oedipus grew up

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creon

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Oedipus is advisor, becomes king after Oedipus is banished, brother of Jocasta

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Dardanians

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Trojans

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Deiphobus

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Hector's brother, Athena pretends to be him

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Deus ex machina

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God out of the machine

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Dido

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Ruler of Carthage, seen in underworld after killing herself

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dionysus

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God of wine and fertility

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dis

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underworld, dis and hades

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dithyramb

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Songs chanted to dionysus

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dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something the characters don't

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efulefu

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worthless men

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egwugwu

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masked gods of the umofian tribe

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ekphrasis

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Extended description of the world

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messenger

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Reveals last clue in Oedipus

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Metaphor

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Using one thing to describe another

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minos

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Judges dead in underworld

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nwoye

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Okonkwo son, becomes Christian

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obierka

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Okonkwo's friend

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Oedipus

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Main character of Oedipus Rex, King of Thebes

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ogbanje

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evil spirit that reincarnates as a child into its mother after each death

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Okonkwo

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Main character of things fall apart

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Oracle

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Person to contact the gods and can see into the future

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palamedes

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opposed the war, was put to death

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palladium

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Statue of Athena in Troy, desecrated by the Greeks

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paris

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Cream second son, heir to the throne, abducts helen

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patroclus

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Achilles cousin and good friend

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phlegethon

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Fire river in the underworld

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polybus

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Oedipus' adopted dad, king of corinth

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priam

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king of troy

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protagonist

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"hero" of a story

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proverb

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Stories to tell life lessons

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reciprocity

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Trade or exchange of objects comes in the form of negative and positive

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shepard

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Finds Oedipus gives him to polybus

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sinon

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Greek soldier, tricks the Trojans

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sophocles

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Wrote Oedipus Rex great poet and playwright

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sphinx

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a Eagle lion or woman but asks oedipius a riddle, also responsible for the plague in thebes

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stock epithet

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swift-runner (two word description)

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styx

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River in the underworld

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Supplication

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ceremonial request made from supplicant

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Tartarus

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The "hell" of the underworld

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Teiresias

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Blind seer in Oedipus Rex

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the sybil

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Guides Aeneas through the underworld

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thebes

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City saved from Sphinx by Oedipus

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thespian

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actors

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thetis

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achilles mom, talks to zeus

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tragedy

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sad play (romeo and juliet)

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troy

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City in the Iliad and aneid, at war with Greece in the Iliad

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uchendu

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okonkwos friend

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ulysses

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greek warrior (odysseus) - odyssey

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umuofia

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land in chinua achebes novel, place where okonkwo lives

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unoka

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Okonkwo's father, unsuccessful and looked down upon man

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virgil

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author of the anead

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xenia

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hospitality

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zeus

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king of the gods