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Zeus

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-Jupiter; god of the sky; king of the gods; married to Hera

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Hera

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-Juno; goddess of marriage; queen of the gods; married to Zeus

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Hades

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-Pluto; god of death; ruler of Tartarus; took Persephone as his wife

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Ares

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-Mars; god of war; father of Eros

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Athena

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-Minerva; goddess of wisdom; born out of Zeus’ head; maiden goddess—she vowed to never get married

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Apollo

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-Apollo; god of poetry, art, oracles, archery, medicine, sun, light, and knowledge; twin sister is Artemis

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Artemis

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-Diana; goddess of hunt, the Moon, and archery; twin sister of Apollo; maiden goddess—vowed to never get married

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Aphrodite

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-Venus; goddess of love and beauty, mother of Eros; wife to Hephaestus

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Demeter

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-Ceres; goddess of agriculture, fertility, and the harvest

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Hephaestus

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-Vulcan; god of fire and the forge; husband to Aphrodite

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Hermes

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-Mercury; messenger god; fastest god

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Dionysus

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-Bacchus; god of wine and theatre

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Hestia

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-Vesta; goddess of the hearth and home; maiden goddess—vowed to never get married

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Tartarus

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The underworld

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Arachne

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-committed suicide; got turned into a spider by Athena

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Orpheus

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-greatest musician of his time; went to the underworld to try to get his wife (Eurydice) back

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Charon

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-ferry man who takes souls across the river and into the underworld

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Medusa

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-monster with snakes for hair; if she looks you in the eyes you turn to stone, has a snake like body; killed by Perseus

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Narcissus

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-fell in love with his own reflection; turned into a flower

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Eurydice

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-wife of Orpheus; killed by snakes

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Ariadne

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-helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur

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Daedalus

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-great inventor who created the Labyrinth

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Icarus

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-son of Daedalus; flew to close to the sun; melted his wax wings

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River Styx

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-river in Tartarus that is extremely powerful

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Pandora
-created by Zeus and Hephaestus; given a box from Hermes, told not to open it, opened it and evil entered the world
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Perseus
-killed Medusa; married Andromeda
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Pyramus
-loved Thisbe; killed himself when he thought she was dead
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Thisbe
-loved Pyramus; killed herself when she found Pyramus dead
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Helen of Troy
-wife Menelaus; left him for Paris
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Odysseus
-came up with the he idea of the Trojan horse; made it past the sirens
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Theseus
-killed the Minotaur; duke of Athens in MSND; married to Hippolyta
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Lysander
-loves Hermia; Hermia loves him; falls in love with Helena after he gets anointed with the love potion
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Demetrius
-loves Hermia; Helena loves him; loves Helena after he gets anointed with the love potion
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Egeus
-Hermia's father; wants Hermia to marry Demetrius
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Helena
-loves Demetrius; loved by Lysander and Demetrius after being anointed by the love potion
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Hermia
-loves Lysander; loved by Lysander and Demetrius
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Titania
-married to Oberon; queen of the fairies; falls in love with the he head of a donkey
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Oberon
-King of he fairies; married to Titania
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Hippolyta
-former Amazonian warrior; engaged/married to Theseus
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Randy
-friends with Bob; doesn't get involved in the rumble
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Sodapop
-Pony's brother; nice to Pony
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Cherry
-Soc; Bob's girlfriend; acts as a spy for the greasers
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Ponyboy
-main character in the Outsiders
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Bob
-Soc; tried to drown Ponyboy; killed by Johnny
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Prometheus
-Titan who took sides with the gods on the war against the Titans; is punished by Zeus for giving man fire; chained to a mountain and everyday an eagle eats his gut, they regenerate at night, and then it happens again
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Puck
-fairy; anoints everyone with the love potion under the order of Oberon; is a trickster
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Dally
-criminal of the group; gives Johnny and Pony a gun and $50 to run away; kills himself when Johnny dies; goes into the burning church to try to save Johnny
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Darry
-Pony's oldest brother; doesn't play football or do what he wants to take care of Pony and Soda
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Hero
-sixth grader protagonist
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Johnny
-dies being a hero; kills Bob
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Danny
-eighth grader; friends with Danny; gives the diamond back to his mom; dad is police chief
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Mrs. Roth
-Mr. Murphy's first wife; mother of Anna Roth; Danny's mother
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Beatrice
-Hero's sister
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prose
-not poetry
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Drama
-story that is acted out; a play
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Malapropism
-when a word is used incorrectly
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Italian Sonnet
-sonnet where the last two lines do not rhyme
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Octave
-the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet
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Poetry
-literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature
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Concealment
-the action of hiding something or preventing it from being known
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Stratford
-city where William Shakespeare was born
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Couplet
-two lines of a poem
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Volta
-the turn in the first line of the sestet after the octave in an Italian Sonnet
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Genre
-a category of literature
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Oxymoron
-polar opposites
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Sonnet
-fourteen line poem
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Quatrain
-four lines of poetry
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Personification
-the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
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Novel
-long, narrative prose (story)
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Allusion
-an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
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English Sonnet
-sonnet where the last two lines do rhyme
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Sestet
-the last six lines of an Italian sonnet
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Alliteration
-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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