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48 Cards in this Set
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Zeus
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King of the gods
Rain God |
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Poseidon
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God of the sea
Creator of earthquakes and horses |
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of love and beauty
Made Madea fall in love with Jason |
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Apollo
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God of music and light
He cannot lie He drives the sun across the sky |
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Hades
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God of the underworld
He is wild, bad tempered, shows no mercy. He is responsible for the dead, funerals, the wealth of the underworld. |
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Eros
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God of love and fertility - one of the oldest
He is basically cupid. He had golden arrows: for love And Leaden arrows: cause indifference |
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Helios
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God of the sun
Becomes father of Aeetes God of cattle He knows all |
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Hera
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Zeus' wife
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Hecate
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Goddess of crossroads, sorcery of magic, and the border between the normal and spiritual worlds.
Has three bodies |
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Artemis
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Apollo's twin
Goddess of wilderness, the hunt, and fertility. Patron of women and children |
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The Fates
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They decide who lives and who dies
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Antigone
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Protagonist
Strong minded daughter Oedipus |
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Creon
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Antigone's uncle
New king of Thebes |
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Ismene
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Antigone's sister
Older sister |
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Polyneices
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Antigone's brother who was killed and banished because he was a traitor - says Creon
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Jocasta
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Creon's brother
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Messenger
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Person who brings news to Creon
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Haimon
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Sone of Creon and Eurydice
Betrothed to Antigone |
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Teiresias
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Blind prophet
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Etocles
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Antigone's brother who recieved a proper burial
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Oedipus
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Tries to control his destiny by leaving Corinth to control his fate, but fulfills it anyway. His children are Antigone, Ismene, Polyneoces, and Eteocles
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Eurydice
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Wife of Creon
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Ode
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When the chorus talks
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Logos
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Logical
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Pathos
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Emotional
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Ethos
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Ethical
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Byronic Hero
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a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past.
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Tragic Hero
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a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy
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Anaphora
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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
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Dramatic Irony
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irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
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Situational Irony
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an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does
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Verbal Irony
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a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
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Tragic flaw
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the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy
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Sophocles wrote
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Antigone
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Euripides wrote
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Medea
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Jason's challenges
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get the Golden Fleece, defeat the fire breathing bulls, get past the dragon guarding the Fleece. Medea helps Jason with all of these challenges
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Byronic Hero
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One is rebellious and is guilty for a wrong done in the past
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Anaphora
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Repitition of words or phrases at the beginning or sentences
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Dramatic Irony
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audience/reader knows information that the characters don't
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Situtational Irony
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Has an unexpected outcome
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Verbal Irony
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Character says one thing, but means another
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Tragic Hero
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Character who makes a poor judgement and the outcome is tradgedy
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Tragic Flaw
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Character defect that causes the downfall ofthe protagonist of tradgedy
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Theme
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Dominent idea
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Foil
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Characters that oppose each other
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Sophocles
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Lived near Athens and was a priest and stare treasurer. He defeated Aeschylus and wrote over 120 tradgedies
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Euripides
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Studied under Pericles and Socrates. Wrote 93 plays. Married and divorced twice
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Jason's Challanges
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The fire breathing bulls, plowing and sowing, and the dragon's teeth.
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