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"The moon shines like a fifty cent piece" is an example of a _______
similie
"The city is a sleeping woman" is an example of _______
metaphor
Shakespear begins the 7 ages of man with "all the world's a ______"
stage
_________ is giving human qualitites to something that isnt human
personification
__________ is putting text in own words
Paraphrasing
________ is based on repition
rhythm
____ refers to the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
meter
when a stressed syllable follows an unstressed syllable, the foot is called an ______
iamb
A _____ usually consists of 1 stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllable
foot
A foot made up of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is a ________
trochee
A ______ is a foot that is made up of two stressed syllables
spondee
Analyzing a poem to show its meter is called ________
scanning
poetry without a strict pattern o stressed and unstressed syllables is _________
free verse
Approximate rhyme is called _________(3)
half rhyme, slant rhyme, off rhyme. NOT EXACT RHYME
_____________ refes to words that describe sounds
onomatopoeia
"the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" is an example of ______
alliteration
__________ is humorous and points out absurdities in society and/or culture
satire
Frost's poem abot the end of the world is called ________
Fire and Ice
A speaker's attitude toward a subject or toard an audience is called ______
tone
Another term for word choice is _______
diction
The message of "the lesson of the moth" is to ________
chase beauty
In conquerors, the soldiers are victorious and find ____________
death and destruction
a ________ IS A STORY TOLD WITH A LILT OR A BEAT THAT MAKES IT EASY TO SING OR RECITE FROM MEMORY
ballad
A line, phrase, or whole stanza that is repeated exactly or almost exactly throughout a song is a/an __________
refrain
Comparatively short poems designed to make one sharp impression on the reader are _______
lyric poems
In "The demon lover," what are some clues that something strange is going on:
the boat has no crew, the mast is made of gold, the man has cloven feet
___________ was the ring leader of the suitors
Antinous
___________ was the son of Ody
Telemachus
________ was the son of poseidon
Polythemus
__________ recognizes Ody by the wound in his leg
Eurycleia
_______ rescues Ody when he is stranded on a raft
Calypso
Athena advises Tele to search out info on Ody she appears in the form of ______________
mentor, a family friend
Penelope's trick to keep the suitors at bay involves ____________
weaving a shroud
When we first see Ody he is _________
weeping
Ody is brough to king alcinous and proceeds to tell his tale. The person that discovered him when he washed ashore was _____________
Princess Nausicaa
many of Ody men lose all meory of home on the island of ______________
the Lotus eaters
T or F: Ody and men have to avoid Sylla and Charybdis before their voyage to the underworld.
False
T or F: The source of Ody's wandering was primarily the wrath of Poseidon
True
T or F: The sirens tempt men with the promise of unlimited knowledge
True
t or F: Poseidon has to intervene to prevent the suitors families from exacting revenge
F, Athena and Zeus do
T or F: The sight of Athena's spear frightens the suitors
False
T or F: Calypso turns Ody's men into pigs
False, Circe
T or F: the depiction of Demodocus, the blind poet, is believed to be a self portrait of Homer
True
Odysseus tricked the cycloips by telling him that his name was _______
Nobody
Circe sends Odysseus on a mission to Hades, the underworld. While he's there he talk to ______________(3)
Agamemnon,Teiresias, and Achilles

He does not talk to Laertes
Odysseus and his men are punished by Zeus for ____________________
eating the cattle of the sun god, Helios
When Odysseus strings the bow and fires through the 12 axe handles he slaughters the suitors. He is aided by _________________(3)
Athena, Emaeus, Telemachus

Not Antinous
Before Odysseus announces his presence to Laertes, a pattern emerges. Odysseus can't resist ___________
testing his loved ones
T or F: Helen was the cause of the trojan war
True
T or F: Homer begins the Odyssey by invoking the muses
true
T or F: Telemachus is self-confident at the beginning of the Odyssey
False
Buck's life in California was ___________
leisurely
________________ affected Buck's life
People finding gold in the North
Manuel was ____________
Judge Miller's gardener's helper
Manuel took Buck and _______
sold him
The man in the red sweater teaches Buck to _________
obey men with clubs
What happened to Curly
he was attacked and killed by other dogs
What did Buck learn after seeing Curly so swiftly killed?
Buck learned there was no fair play amoung the dogs
_____ became Buck's enemy
Spitz
How do the dogs sleep at night?
by digging holes in the snow
How did Perault honor Buck?
carefully examining Buck's feet
Howhas Buck changed in Part 2 to the ay he was in Part 1?
he has grown wise to ways of the wild
Why did Spitz and Buck fight for the 1st time?
Spitz stole Buck's sleeping hole
What event stopped Spitz and Buck's first fight?
wild huskies raided the camp for food
What was the team like after Buck first stood up to Spitz?
they no longer worked together
What caused the Final Battle of Buck and Spitz?
Spitz killed a rabbit that Buck was chasing
What was the outcome of Buck and Spitz final battle?
Buck won
How did Buck become lead dog?
by refusing to accept any other position
Why was Buck a good lead dog?
He snapped the team into shape
Why did the dogs get new leaders?
Francois and Perrault recieved changed orders
What condition were the dogs in when they reached Dawson?
thjey were in poor condition
Who were the new leaders of Buck's team?
Hal and Charles
Who was Mercedes?
Hal's sister
Why couldn't the dogs move the sled?
the team was in poor condition and runners iced, load was heavy
Hal, Charles, and mercedes are ignorant and _______
don't take advice
What happened to all by 5 of the dogs on the sled team?
they starved
Buck met John because ___________
John rescued Buck from a beating from Hal
What was Buck's life with John like?
John loved Bucdk and gave him a relaxed life
What does Buck encounter in the woods?
timber wolf
What happened to John?
he was killed by Yeehats
How was Buck's last tie to civilization
John
Buck is known as ______
Ghost Dog
_____ was the only goddess to use thunderbolt
Athena
Apollos oracle is located at _____
Delphi
Roman's loved ____ more than freeks did
ares
Hephaesteus forge cause of ________
volcanic eruptions
_______ carried the dead to the underworld
Charin
Dionysis was the son of Zeus and _____
Semele
Pentheus' fate was _________
to be torn apart
Only two characters to raise from the dead were:
Dionysis and Persephone
Pandora is known as all of the following except:
a) beautiful disaster
b) first woman
c) wife of Epimtheus
d) Ancestor of Hercules
d
Orpheus is killed by _______
Maenads
Jason and crew face
1) _____________
2) _____________
3) _____________
1) harpies
2) who sprout from dragon teeth
3) Scylla and Charybdis
Medea ______ Jason
loves
Bellerophon is well knon for _______
killing chimaera
Pegasus was ______
born of Medusa's blood
Athena's aegis bears the _________
head of Medusa
Athenian hero ______ defeats Minotaur
Theseus
hercules did not kill _____
cerebrus
_______ eldest daguhter is sacrificed so greeks can sail past north wind to engage trojans in battle
Agememnon
Hecvtor is killed by ____
Achilles
Achilles is killed from bow of ______
Paris
_________ is killed upon returning home from troy
Agememnon
_____ exacts revenge for death of father
Orestes
______ solves the riddle of the Sphinx, murders his father, and marries his mother
Oedipus
_______ punishment in hades was to roll a rock uphill forever
Sissyphus