World Lit I Test 2

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Aeneas

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a brave soldier who escaped from Troy, main character in the Aeneid

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Venus (Aphrodite)

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Aeneas's mom, supports the Trojans unlike Juno, goddess of love

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Anchises

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Aeneas sees him in the afterlife, his father, tries to hug hi three times, paralleled to Odysseus and his mom

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Dido

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the queen of Carthage, Aeneas' lover, her love for Aeneas is provoked by Venus

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Juno (Hera)

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queen of the gods, patron to Carthage, takes out her anger on Aeneas because of the prophecy that Aeneas' Roman descendants are to destroy Carthage

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Sibyl

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priestess that brings Aeneas into the afterlife, guide, parallel to Tiresias

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Deiphobus

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Priam's son and Helen's husband, Helen and Menelaus (her original husband) kill him, married Helen after Paris
paralleled to Agamemnon with Klymnestra

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Ambrose

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the Bishop of Milan, Augustine goes to hear him speak for his rhetoric

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Monica

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Augustine's mother, prays for his salvation her entire life, dies not in her home, does not care where she is buried because she is more concerned about being eternally with the Lord

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Adeodatus

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Augustine's son of his longtime concubine, dies at seventeen

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Alypius

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Augustine's closest friend and companion in Milan, they have a conversation that leads to both of their conversions and baptisms

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Shahrayar

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his wife has been unfaithful to him so he decides to sleep with a different woman every night and kill her in the morning

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Shahrazad

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heroine in the story, she is the vizier's daughter, tells stories to the king that makes him not kill her because he is intrigued with them

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Dinarzad

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the sister of Shahrazad, she is the one that initiates her telling the stories to the king, daughter of the vizier

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Mrs. Ts'ui

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widow, distant cousin of Chang, got her protection from soldiers, mother of Ts'ui

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Chang

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distant cousin to Mrs. Ts'ui, never had a lover until he was 23, infatuated with Miss Ts'ui

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Ying-ying

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Ts'ui's child's name

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Yuan Chen

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key literary figure in the T'ang period, wrote a continuation of Chang's poem

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Hung-niang

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the maid of Miss Ts'ui, goes back and forth between her and Chang

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Virgil

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he is Dante's guide into hell, he is Dante's hero, he can only help him to a certain point because he has no access to heaven, capable of going into the circles of hell

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Paola and Francesca

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the circle of the lustful
Francesca- falls in love with Paola, her brother in law
both read Lancelot and begin to kiss after becoming emotionally involved in the story

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Minos

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judge to see what circle of hell they will be in, wraps his tail around himself and the amount of times it wraps is the circle number

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Charon

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the ferryman of the underworld, see the living person and says he is not supposed to be there

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Aeneas, Dido, Paris, Helen, Hector, Achilles

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they are in the second circle of hell where the lustful reside, forever buffeted by violent storm

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Caiaphas

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high priest under Pontius Pilate who advised for Christ to be crucified, hypocrites file along with led inside beautiful outer pieces

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Ulysses

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burned in a flame shared with Diomedes, dies at sea, Fradulent counselors, came up with the idea of the Trojan horse, on the side of the Greeks

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Mohammed

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people are split in half perpetually, sowers of dissension and scandals, caused dissension among Christians

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Betran de Born

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gave bad council to the fledgling king, carries his brain, talks about the law of counter penalty

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Beatrice

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Dante's guide into heaven, he is in love with her

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Brutus, Cassius

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murdered Caesar, betrayers of leaders, fully covered by ice, farthest away from the light of God

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Lucifer

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depicted as enormous, has three faces, parody of Trinity, has the deepest punishment of them all, is in the betrayers of the leaders

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Upper hell

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circles 1-5, sinners who are guilty of self-indulgence

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Lower Hell

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circles 6-9, sinners who are guilty of malice

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contrapasso

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the just punishment of sin, effected by a process either resembling or contrasting the sin itself

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autobiography

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Confessions is the first, established a new genre

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canto

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one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem

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canticle

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one of the nonmetrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible

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limbo

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inhabited by those who were worthy but lived before Christianity and/or without baptism,