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106 Cards in this Set
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"The moon shines like a fifty cent piece" is an example of a _______
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similie
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"The city is a sleeping woman" is an example of _______
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metaphor
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Shakespear begins the 7 ages of man with "all the world's a ______"
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stage
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_________ is giving human qualitites to something that isnt human
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personification
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__________ is putting text in own words
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Paraphrasing
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________ is based on repition
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rhythm
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____ refers to the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
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meter
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when a stressed syllable follows an unstressed syllable, the foot is called an ______
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iamb
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A _____ usually consists of 1 stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllable
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foot
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A foot made up of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is a ________
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trochee
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A ______ is a foot that is made up of two stressed syllables
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spondee
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Analyzing a poem to show its meter is called ________
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scanning
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poetry without a strict pattern o stressed and unstressed syllables is _________
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free verse
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Approximate rhyme is called _________(3)
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half rhyme, slant rhyme, off rhyme. NOT EXACT RHYME
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_____________ refes to words that describe sounds
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onomatopoeia
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"the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" is an example of ______
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alliteration
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__________ is humorous and points out absurdities in society and/or culture
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satire
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Frost's poem abot the end of the world is called ________
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Fire and Ice
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A speaker's attitude toward a subject or toard an audience is called ______
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tone
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Another term for word choice is _______
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diction
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The message of "the lesson of the moth" is to ________
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chase beauty
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In conquerors, the soldiers are victorious and find ____________
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death and destruction
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a ________ IS A STORY TOLD WITH A LILT OR A BEAT THAT MAKES IT EASY TO SING OR RECITE FROM MEMORY
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ballad
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A line, phrase, or whole stanza that is repeated exactly or almost exactly throughout a song is a/an __________
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refrain
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Comparatively short poems designed to make one sharp impression on the reader are _______
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lyric poems
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In "The demon lover," what are some clues that something strange is going on:
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the boat has no crew, the mast is made of gold, the man has cloven feet
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___________ was the ring leader of the suitors
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Antinous
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___________ was the son of Ody
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Telemachus
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________ was the son of poseidon
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Polythemus
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__________ recognizes Ody by the wound in his leg
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Eurycleia
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_______ rescues Ody when he is stranded on a raft
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Calypso
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Athena advises Tele to search out info on Ody she appears in the form of ______________
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mentor, a family friend
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Penelope's trick to keep the suitors at bay involves ____________
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weaving a shroud
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When we first see Ody he is _________
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weeping
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Ody is brough to king alcinous and proceeds to tell his tale. The person that discovered him when he washed ashore was _____________
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Princess Nausicaa
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many of Ody men lose all meory of home on the island of ______________
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the Lotus eaters
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T or F: Ody and men have to avoid Sylla and Charybdis before their voyage to the underworld.
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False
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T or F: The source of Ody's wandering was primarily the wrath of Poseidon
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True
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T or F: The sirens tempt men with the promise of unlimited knowledge
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True
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t or F: Poseidon has to intervene to prevent the suitors families from exacting revenge
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F, Athena and Zeus do
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T or F: The sight of Athena's spear frightens the suitors
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False
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T or F: Calypso turns Ody's men into pigs
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False, Circe
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T or F: the depiction of Demodocus, the blind poet, is believed to be a self portrait of Homer
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True
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Odysseus tricked the cycloips by telling him that his name was _______
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Nobody
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Circe sends Odysseus on a mission to Hades, the underworld. While he's there he talk to ______________(3)
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Agamemnon,Teiresias, and Achilles
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Odysseus and his men are punished by Zeus for ____________________
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eating the cattle of the sun god, Helios
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When Odysseus strings the bow and fires through the 12 axe handles he slaughters the suitors. He is aided by _________________(3)
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Athena, Emaeus, Telemachus
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Before Odysseus announces his presence to Laertes, a pattern emerges. Odysseus can't resist ___________
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testing his loved ones
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T or F: Helen was the cause of the trojan war
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True
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T or F: Homer begins the Odyssey by invoking the muses
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true
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T or F: Telemachus is self-confident at the beginning of the Odyssey
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False
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Buck's life in California was ___________
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leisurely
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________________ affected Buck's life
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People finding gold in the North
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Manuel was ____________
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Judge Miller's gardener's helper
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Manuel took Buck and _______
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sold him
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The man in the red sweater teaches Buck to _________
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obey men with clubs
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What happened to Curly
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he was attacked and killed by other dogs
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What did Buck learn after seeing Curly so swiftly killed?
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Buck learned there was no fair play amoung the dogs
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_____ became Buck's enemy
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Spitz
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How do the dogs sleep at night?
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by digging holes in the snow
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How did Perault honor Buck?
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carefully examining Buck's feet
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Howhas Buck changed in Part 2 to the ay he was in Part 1?
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he has grown wise to ways of the wild
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Why did Spitz and Buck fight for the 1st time?
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Spitz stole Buck's sleeping hole
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What event stopped Spitz and Buck's first fight?
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wild huskies raided the camp for food
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What was the team like after Buck first stood up to Spitz?
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they no longer worked together
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What caused the Final Battle of Buck and Spitz?
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Spitz killed a rabbit that Buck was chasing
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What was the outcome of Buck and Spitz final battle?
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Buck won
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How did Buck become lead dog?
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by refusing to accept any other position
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Why was Buck a good lead dog?
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He snapped the team into shape
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Why did the dogs get new leaders?
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Francois and Perrault recieved changed orders
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What condition were the dogs in when they reached Dawson?
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thjey were in poor condition
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Who were the new leaders of Buck's team?
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Hal and Charles
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Who was Mercedes?
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Hal's sister
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Why couldn't the dogs move the sled?
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the team was in poor condition and runners iced, load was heavy
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Hal, Charles, and mercedes are ignorant and _______
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don't take advice
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What happened to all by 5 of the dogs on the sled team?
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they starved
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Buck met John because ___________
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John rescued Buck from a beating from Hal
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What was Buck's life with John like?
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John loved Bucdk and gave him a relaxed life
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What does Buck encounter in the woods?
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timber wolf
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What happened to John?
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he was killed by Yeehats
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How was Buck's last tie to civilization
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John
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Buck is known as ______
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Ghost Dog
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_____ was the only goddess to use thunderbolt
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Athena
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Apollos oracle is located at _____
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Delphi
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Roman's loved ____ more than freeks did
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ares
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Hephaesteus forge cause of ________
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volcanic eruptions
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_______ carried the dead to the underworld
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Charin
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Dionysis was the son of Zeus and _____
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Semele
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Pentheus' fate was _________
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to be torn apart
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Only two characters to raise from the dead were:
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Dionysis and Persephone
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Pandora is known as all of the following except:
a) beautiful disaster b) first woman c) wife of Epimtheus d) Ancestor of Hercules |
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Orpheus is killed by _______
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Maenads
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Jason and crew face
1) _____________ 2) _____________ 3) _____________ |
1) harpies
2) who sprout from dragon teeth 3) Scylla and Charybdis |
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Medea ______ Jason
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loves
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Bellerophon is well knon for _______
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killing chimaera
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Pegasus was ______
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born of Medusa's blood
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Athena's aegis bears the _________
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head of Medusa
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Athenian hero ______ defeats Minotaur
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Theseus
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hercules did not kill _____
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cerebrus
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_______ eldest daguhter is sacrificed so greeks can sail past north wind to engage trojans in battle
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Agememnon
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Hecvtor is killed by ____
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Achilles
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Achilles is killed from bow of ______
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Paris
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_________ is killed upon returning home from troy
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Agememnon
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_____ exacts revenge for death of father
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Orestes
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______ solves the riddle of the Sphinx, murders his father, and marries his mother
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Oedipus
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_______ punishment in hades was to roll a rock uphill forever
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Sissyphus
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