English Honors Midterm

Front 1

Parenthetical Citations

Back 1

At the end of a sentance when quoting or paraphrasing.

This is an example (John 67)

Front 2

Climax

Back 2

The turning point in the plot where there is the highest tension and drama

Front 3

Conflict

Back 3

The struggle between 2 opposing forces in literature

Front 4

Epic

Back 4

A long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds

Front 5

Epic Simile

Back 5

Also called a Homeric Simile, is a simile that runs for several lines

Front 6

Epithet

Back 6

Literary device that describes a person, place, or thing in such a way that it helps identify its characteristics

Front 7

Evoking The Muse

Back 7

Seeking inspiration from a higher power; the daughters of Zeus

Front 8

Exposition

Back 8

Literary device used to introduce background information about the events, settings, and characters

Front 9

Flashback

Back 9

Interruptions that are used to insert past events in order to provide background and context

Front 10

3rd Persion Omniscient

Back 10

A point of view where the reader knows the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all of the characters

Front 11

Verbal Irony

Back 11

Sarcasm, where the speakers means the opposite of what they say

Front 12

Dramatic Irony

Back 12

Used the describe the audience's awareness of the situation while the characters are oblivious

Front 13

Situational Irony

Back 13

An incongruity between what happens and what is expected to happen

Front 14

Metaphore

Back 14

An implied or hidden comparison between 2 things unrelated

Front 15

Personification

Back 15

Giving an inanimate object human-like qualities or characteristics

Front 16

Plot

Back 16

The events that make up a story

Front 17

Foreshadowing

Back 17

Giving the audience a hint of what will later come in the story

Front 18

Direct Characterization

Back 18

When the personality of a character is revealed through adjectives, phrases, or epithets

Front 19

Indirect Characterization

Back 19

When the personality of a character is revealed through speech, actions, and appearance

Front 20

Resolution

Back 20

The part of the plot where the problem is resolved or worked out

Front 21

Setting

Back 21

The time and place a story takes place

Front 22

Symbol

Back 22

An object, person, situation, event, or action that has a deeper meaning

Front 23

Theme

Back 23

The central topic or message within a story

Front 24

The Odyssey

Back 24

An epic about the famous warrior Odysseus, takes a 10 year journey back home after returning from the 10 year Trojan War; Odysseus must go on an epic quest to appeal the God's; he angers Zeus and Posideon with his hubristic attitude

Front 25

The Trojan War

Back 25

A war between Troy and the Greeks; began when Paris of Troy takes Helen, the wife of King Menelaus; who was convinced by his power-hungry brother Agamemnon to start a war

Front 26

The Heroic Cycle

Back 26

The ordinary world, call to adventure, refusal to call, meeting the mentor, crossing the Threshold, obstacles, Ordeal, Death, and Rebirth; reward, the road back, resurrection, and return with elixir

Front 27

Athena

Back 27

Goddess of wisdom and war who aids Odysseus throughout his entire journey

Front 28

Poseidon

Back 28

God of the sea who curses Odysseus after Odysseus blinds his son Polyphemus

Front 29

Circe

Back 29

The enchantress of Aeaea who attempts to turn Odysseus's men into pigs; becomes Odysseus's lover and aids him on his journey

Front 30

Calypso

Back 30

Rescues Odysseus after the rest of Odysseus's men are killed by Zeus; keeps Odysseus's hostage for 7 years on her island and only let's him go when confronted by Hermes

Front 31

Hermes

Back 31

Messanger of the God's who convinces Circe to release Odysseus

Front 32

Zeus

Back 32

Is angered by Odysseus hubristic attitude and kills Odysseus's men to appease Helios

Front 33

Helios

Back 33

Plunges the world into darkness after Odysseus's men slaughter and eat his cattle

Front 34

Aeolus

Back 34

Keeper of winds who gives Odysseus a bag of winds and helps him sail back home to Ithaca; abandones Odysseus and his crew after they open the bag of winds in fear of the God's curse

Front 35

Oygia

Back 35

The home of Calypso

Front 36

Phaecia

Back 36

Home of the Phaecians; Odysseus stops here after leaving Oygia

Front 37

Ithica

Back 37

Home of Odysseus; the ultimate destination of Odysseus's journey

Front 38

Aeolia

Back 38

Home of Aeolus; Odysseus is blown back to the island after opening the back of winds

Front 39

Ismarus

Back 39

Home of the Cyclopes; where Polyphemus initially asks Poseidon to curse Odysseus and his crew

Front 40

Laestrygonians

Back 40

Giant cannibles who pelt boulders at Odysseus's ships; Ultimately sinks 11 of them

Front 41

Aeaea

Back 41

Where Odysseus and his men stayed 1 year of luxury with Circe

Front 42

Thrinica

Back 42

The home of Helios; where Odysseus's men slaughter and eat Helios's cattle

Front 43

Scylla

Back 43

6 headed and 12 legged sea monster that eats 6 of Odysseus's men

Front 44

Charybdis

Back 44

A giant mouth under the sea; Could create a whirlpool that wouldve consumed Odysseus's ship