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English I- Fall Final Flashcards

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12 gods & goddesses

  • greek & roman name
  • symbol
  • domain
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Zeus: jupiter, lightning bolt, sky
Hera: juno, cow/peacock, marriage
Poseidon: neptune, trident, sea
Hades: pluto, helmet of invisibility, dead
Pallas Athena: Minerva, olive tree/owl, wisdom
Phoebus Apollo: Apollo, laurel tree/ dolphin/ crow, light & truth
Artemis: Diana, bow & arrow/deer, wild things & maidens
Aphrodite: Venus, dove, love & beauty
Hermes: Mercury, caduces, Zeus’s messenger & thieves
Ares: mars, vulture/dog, war
Hephaestus: vulcan/ mulciber, fire/volcanoes, smiths & fire
Hestia: Vesta, home/fireplace/newborns,hearth

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Demeter/Ceres

  • her story
  • family ties
  • other stories she is in
  • lessons & morals
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story: hades wants a wife. he kidnaps persephone, demurrer’s daughter. Demeter wanders the earth in aimless despair, eventually resting in Eleusis in human disguise. One day, the kind family that has been harboring her accidentally discovers her divine nature and offends her. They build the great temple at Eleusis to appease her anger. Still, Demeter locks herself in the temple out of sadness, and at that time nothing grows on the earth. Finally, Zeus sends Hermes down to Hades to try to set everything right. Hades agrees to let Persephone return to her mother but slyly makes her eat a magic pomegranate seed that necessitates her return. Eventually a compromise is arranged: Persephone will stay with Hades for one-third of the year, Demeter for the other two-thirds. When Persephone returns to the underworld at the start of each winter, Demeter’s renewed sorrow makes the Earth barren. Persephone returns each spring, causing Demeter’s joy and thus the springtime’s blossoming.
Family ties: mother of persephone; daughter of cronus & rhea
-the seasons

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Dionysus/Bacchus

  • his story
  • family ties
  • other stories he is in
  • lessons & morals
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Story:Dionysus is the only main god who has one human parent: Zeus is his father, but his mother is a mortal named Semele. Enraged at Zeus’s affair, Hera cunningly fixed Semele’s death while she was pregnant. Zeus snatched the baby from his mother’s burning body and implanted it in his own side until birth, when Hermes carried the infant god off to be raised in secrecy by the nymphs of Nysa, a magic valley. Dionysus is generally a good god, spreading the secrets of wine production everywhere he goes. He even loves the mortal Ariadne after Theseus cruelly abandons her and dares defy Hades and rescue his mother from death. Somehow succeeding, Dionysus leads Semele up to live as an immortal in Olympus. He has another side, however; as one might expect from the lord of wine, he is a god of madness and insanity. The wild, bloody Maenads are his followers. When Pentheus, king of Thebes, defies him, Dionysus drives Pentheus’s mother and sisters so insane that they rip Pentheus apart with their bare hands. Dionysus is the final component of the Greek pantheon, and as time goes on, his influence grows. He eventually becomes the god of holy inspiration, in whose honor the most famous theater and poetry festival is held. Taking place every spring, it commemorates his rebirth—according to one story, he is torn to pieces each year either by the Titans or by Hera’s orders, depending on the version of the myth.
Family ties: son of zeus

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Prometheus & Io

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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-plot
zeus finds a girl named io and they fall in love. hera finds out and confronts zeus. when she confronts him zeus turns io into a cow and gives the cow to hera as a gift. io roamed the land and came across prometheus.
-major characters
zeus
hera
prometheus
io
-lessons & morals
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Europa

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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-plot: Europa was out picking flowers. A bull(zeus) whisked her away.
-major characters
Zeus
Europa
-lessons & morals

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Cupid & Phsyche

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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-plot phsyche was a beautiful girl that couldn’t finder a lover. her father went to a temple where he was told to have her wait on a hill top and the wind would carry her away and she would marry a beast. They did this. In her new home with her husband(she wasn’t allowed to see him) she had her sisters visit. her sisters convinced her to seek a peek at him at night time. Phsyche did this and before her was a beautiful man. As she left hot wax dripped on him. Cupid jumped up and said without trust their is no love; he left her. to get him back physche performed several tasks that aphrodite told her to do. Cupid and phsyche hooked back up.
-major characters
aphrodite
phsyche
cupid
-lessons & morals
trust & do anything for your lover

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Pyramus & Thisbe

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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  • plot: Pyramus and thisbe are 2 lovers who can only talk to each other through a hole in a wall separating the properties they are on. They plan to meet in person. Thisbe gets to the meeting spot first but runs to hide when a lion comes and drops her cloak. Pyramus sees the lion with the cloak which leads Pyramus to kill himself. when thisbe sees this she kills herself.
  • major characters: pyramus & thisbe
  • lessons & morals: double check your facts
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Baucis & Philemon

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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  • plot: Zeus and hermes came down to earth to dressed as wayfarers. no one will welcome them into their home except books and philemon. Books and philemon are very hospitable to the gods and so the gods reveal themselves. books and phi lemon’s house was turned into a temple which they would watch over. they asked to be together forever. when they died they turned into an oak and linden tree that share the same trunk.
  • major characters: zeus, hermes, baucis, philemon
  • lessons & morals: be hospitable, you may get a reward
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Quest for the Golden Fleece

  • list of main characters
  • plot
  • importance of the story
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  • list of main characters:Jason, Pelias, Hercules, Theseus, Madea, Orpheus
  • plot: there is a golden sheep skin that can heal anything but it is hard to get/find. Elias is told a man with one sandle (jason) will take over his throne. when jason arrives paellas challenges him to get the fleece. Jason gathers a crew and they go through many challenges. along the way they find madea, a witch, who helps them through the journey. Made and jason have 2 kids but jason leaves made to marry someone else. Made gets revenge on jason by sending the 2 sones with a special cloak to give to the bride; when she puts it on she is killed. Made kills her 2 sons and runs away.
  • importance of the story: do not take advantage of others
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Phaeton

-importance of his story

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-importance of his story

be careful what you wish for

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Pegasus & Bellerophon

-importance of their story

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-importance of their story

don’t be greedy

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Daedalus

-importance of his story

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-importance of his story

listen to your elders, they know best

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Perseus

  • major accomplishments
  • family line
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-major accomplishments
killed medusa
stole the single eye of the graiae sisters
saves andromeda 
-family line
marries andromeda
danae's son
acrisus' grandson
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Theseus

  • major accomplishments
  • family line
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-major accomplishments
made it through the labyrinth 
killed the minotaur
-family line
marries ariadne
aegeus' son
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Hercules

  • major accomplishments
  • family line
  • 12 labors
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-major accomplishments/twelve labors
One: Kill the Nemean Lion
Two: Kill the Lernean Hydra
Three: Capture the Cerynian Hind
Four: Capture the Erymanthian Boar
Five: Clean the Augean Stables
Six: Kill the Stymphalian Birds
Seven: Capture the Cretan Bull
Eight: Capture the Horses of Diomedes
Nine: Take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyte
Ten: Capture the Cattle of Geryon
Eleven: Take the Golden Apples of the Hesperides
Twelve: Capture Cerberus

apples, bull, boar, birds, cerberus, cows, girdle, hind, hydra, horses, lion, stables

-family line:son of Zeus and Alcmene
he marries the princess Megara

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Atalanta

  • major accomplishments
  • how she got married
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-major accomplishments
 hunt of the caledonia boar
-how she got married
she is very fast and didn't want to get married so she agrees to have a race and marry who ever wins if she loses.
she marries millianian
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judgment of paris

  • main characters
  • importance of the story
  • how does it play into the trojan war?
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-main characters
Athena
Aphrodite
Hera
Paris
-importance of the story
never judge the gods
be careful what you wish for
-how does it play into the trojan war?
Paris chooses aphrodite and so he is given the most beautiful women, helen. helen is married but paris and helen runaway together which causes the war.
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Oedipus & his children

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children

-antigone, polynices, etocles, ismene

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Odyssey

  • main characters
  • main plot points
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-main characters
Odysseus 
circe
calypso
penelope
telemachus
-main plot points
odysseus is sailing home from the war. he and his crew stop and try to hang out with cyclops' but some get eaten and odysseus escapes. they are held by circe and then travel by sirens. Odysseus leads his ship to Scylla. 6 of the men are eaten like Circe says. Odysseus and his men later land on the island that the god Helios has his animals on.  Helios sinks Odysseus’s ship and only Odysseus lives. Odysseus eventually drifts to the island where calypso lives; Calypso keeps Odysseus for seven years.Penelope, Odysseus’ wife, is having some sort of competition to find a new husband because Odysseus has been gone so long. Telemachus and Odysseus battle off the adversaries. Athena helps Odysseus. Odysseus and Telemachus eventually kill the last of the opposing men. Odysseus prepares to meet with Penelope.
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Antigone

  • lessons & morals
  • conflicts
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-lessons & morals
stand up for what you believe in
-conflicts
creon won’t let policies be buried
antigone buries polynices
antigone hangs herself after being locked away
haemon kills himself after he sees antigone dead
eurydice (haemon’s mom) kills herself after she finds out her son is dead

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Short story unit

-mdg, the lottery, and scarlet ibis plot maps, main characters, and major themes

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mdg: rainsford on a boat,near ship trap island, goes to house, is a hunter-gem.Z tells rains ford he hunts humans-the hunt-dog & ivan die, rainsford kills gen.Z- Rainsford sleeps in gen.Z’s bed
-rainsford
-whitney
-gen.Z
-ivan
*dehumanization
the lottery:kids gather rocks-prepare box & pick 1st round slips of paper-one is chosen(tessie)- prepare her for the end-stone her
-towns people
-tessie
*dehumanization
scarlet ibis: little bro named doodle, town think that doodle will die young-bro teaches doodle to walk and other activities,burial of ibis-doodle is left by the river-bro returns to find doodle dead-bro connects doodle with the ibis
-bro
-family
-doodle
*dehumanization

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bildungsroman

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coming of age story

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mood

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the way the author feels about the story or wants the reader to feel (for the reader)

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setting

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time and place

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tone

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the way the author addresses or feels about the audience (to the reader)

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syntax

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sentence structure

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diction

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word choice

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personification

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when a non-person is given human traits

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epic simile

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elaborate and lengthy simile

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epithet

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descriptive phrases that help describe or rename a character

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chekov’s gun

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anything placed into a story must eventually be used

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Orpheus & eurydice

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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-plot: eurydice dies on her wedding day. out of his true love for er orpheus goes to the underworld to retrieve her. He is told he can keep her if on the way back up to earth orpheus doesn’t look back. orpheus looks back and loses eurydice
-major characters
eurydice
orpheus
hades
-lessons & morals
follow instructions

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Pygmalion & Galatea

  • plot
  • major characters
  • lessons & morals
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-plot- pygmalion is a sculpture who cannot find love. he prays to aphrodite. aphrodite makes one of pygmalion’s sculptures come to life. Her name was galatea.
-major characters
aphrodite
pygmalion
galatea
-lessons & morals
love the things you create

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motif

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symbols of themes

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symbol

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something that represents or stands for something else

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conflict

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external
-man v. man
-man v. nature
-man v. society
-man v. religion
internal
-man v. self
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allusion

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a reference made to something else

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oracle

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a prophet that can see the future

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characterization

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the process in which an author describes a character and builds their personality

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dialect

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the way a person or character speaks

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foil

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the opposite- a character or story line established to provide contrast

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archetype

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a pattern or model

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who are the calendar sisters? what are they like?

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August- optimistic and open
June- negative and cynical
may- emotional

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what is the story of our lady of chains? why is this important to the sisters?

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our lady of chains is black mary. it was found by the black ancestors that were brought to america for slavery. it is important to the sisters because it is part of their ancestors and it brings the community together.

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who is zach? what does he want to be? what are the obstacles for him and lily?

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zach is the teenage african american boy who helps august. he wants to be a lawyer. however he and lily cannot be together because he is black and she is white.

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what are some lessons lily learns from the calendar sisters? how do they help her become more of an adult?

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lily learns to be truthful and that someones skin color doesn’t matter

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what are some morals/ lessons in SLOB

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skin color doesn’t matter

be truthful

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who are the big 3?

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1) zeus- fast temper
2) poseidon-relaxed
3) hades-pessimistic

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who is the lightning thief? what are their reasons for it?

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luke is the thief and he did it because he is working for cronos

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what was percy’s quest? why was it important for him to be successful?

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percy had to retrieve zeus’ master lightning bolt. It was important for percy to succeed to prove that he and his father are not guilty

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what are some lessons and morals in percy jackson?

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forgive others

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