Exam 2 Flashcards
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Who is the roman poet popular for his poems about sex, relationships, and retelling of ancient myths; from an aristocratic family, married 3 times; Exiled by CAESAR AUGSTUS for his racy poetry from Rome to Tomis; this was during the time he was finishing Metamorphoes
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Ovid or Publius Ovidius Naso
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What language is Metamorphoses written in?
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Latin
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what themes are present in Metamorphoses
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Change, transformation, power, love, sexuality, obsession, desire, war, and death
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Who is the narrator of Metamorphoses Book 1
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Ovid himself
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Metamorphoses is the Greek word for
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change
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Daphne is the daughter of who
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the river god, Peneus
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What caused cupid to retreat to Mount Parnassus
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Apollo insulted Cupid about using his bow
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Who did cupid hit with gold tipped arrow and who did he hit with the lead tipped arrow
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Apollo; Daphne
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What does Daphne pray to her father to transform into when Apollo finally chases her down?
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a laurel tree, the meaning of her name
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what does apollo do when Daphne is transformed
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he calls Daphne ‘his tree’ and says that she will be present at occasions of triumph and public ceremony
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How does the tale of Jove and lo begin?
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Jove turns Lo into a cow and Juno asks for it as gift
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Who does Jove send to get rid of mercury
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His son Argus
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What happens when Mercury goes to talk to Argus
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Mercury plays his pan flute until Argus gets sleepy then Mercury cuts off his head. Juno comes to rescue his eyes which became the tail of a peacock
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What happens for Jove to promise faithfulness to Juno
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Juno torments Lo until she begs for death, and when Jove promises faithfulness Juno changes her back into a beautiful woman
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what animal does Jove turn into the story of Jove and Europa
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a white bull
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What does Europa offer him after he turns into this form
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flowers
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What does Jove seduce Europa to do
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climb on his back and take her out to sea
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how does the story of Ceres and Proserpina
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Athena hears the cries of 9 magpies and one of the nine Muses indicates they are humans who have been transformed for losing a contest with the nine Muses
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who is calliope
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the muse of epic poetry
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who tells the story of Ceres whose daughter is abducted by Pluto and taken to the underworld because of being struck by one of Cupid’s arrows
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calliope
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which book is Pygmalion from
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book x
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Who is the story Pygmalion is narrated by
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Orpheus (the poet who tried to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld)
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What object does Pygmalion create that he falls in love with
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An ivory statue
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What god does he call on to make his statue into a real woman
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Venus
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What is the name of the daughter and the son that is born from Pygmalion and his statue wife
Paphos and Cinyras
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Who does the tale follow after this?
Cinyras that has a daughter named Myrrha
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How does Myrrha feel about her father
she has a perverted desire for her own father
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Who finds Myrrha after she tries to kill herself
her old nursemaid
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What does Myrrhas nursemaid do when feast-time comes
she sneaks Myrrha into her fathers room in the dark for several nights until he discovers the truth and Myrrha flees
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What happens after Myrrha flees
she prays to a god to be transformed and she is transformed into a thorny tree whose sap and gum is where Myrrha comes from
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What is the name of the child that Myrrha has
Adonis
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Foreshadowing
a warning or indication of a future event
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What happens when Venus is struck by one of cupids arrows
She falls in love with Adonis
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What does Atalanta setup after being given a prophecy about husbands
a contest where she will not marry unless the nam can outrun her and if not, they are put to death
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what does Venus give Hippomenes for the race against Atalanta
3 gold apples
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how does he use the apple in the race
He tosses them in her path and every time she picks them up he gains ground
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What causes Venus to send them with desire into a temple to Cybele
Hippomenes forgets to thank Venus
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what does Cybele do to hippomenes and Atalanta
She turned them into lions who now draw her chariot
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What flower did Venus decide will bloom from adonis blood
the anemone
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What animal kills adonis
a wild boar
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What language is The thousand and One Nights written in
Arabic
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Where do the stories of the Thousand and one nights come from
oral spoken tradition
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where is the thousand and one nights origin
Probably Persian
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Who is Shahrayar
A king and ruler of India and Indochina
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Who is Shahzaman
the younger brother of Shahrayar and the king of Samarkand
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who does Shahrayar send to summon Shahzaman for a visit
His vizier
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How many days does Shahzaman prepares for his journey
10 days
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Where was Dante born
Florence
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What is The Divine Comedy
a literary epic poem
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What is a Paradisco
3 lines stanzaz of interlocking rhyme
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What is a persona
Dante uses the pronoun "I" and refers to himself by name in the poem
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What is a literary epic
a long poem original in narrative by one author
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What is an Allegory
as a literary device; it is an extended metaphor; a representation of abstract or spiritual meaning through symbolic actions, characters, or other means
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What is a Thematic movement
Is the progress of the soul towards perfection
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What is Symbolic retribution
The punishment of sin is somehow appropriate to the sin itself, even sometimes ironically
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What is time in The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy is oriented around important Christian holy days: Inferno takes place on Good Friday, Purgatorio on Holy Saturday, and Paradisco on Easter Sunday
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Who did Dante dedicate his work to
Beatrice Portinari
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Canto I
Dante wakes midway in his lifes journey, to find himself lost in a dark wood, He is harassed by three beasts: leopard, a lion and a she-wolf. The Leopard symbolizes fraud, The lion symbolizes violence, and The She-Wolf symbolizes incontinence. These are the three categories of sin that reflect the architecture of Hell
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What does Virgil offer to Dante
He offers to be Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory
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Canto II
Begins with an invocation to the muses. Dante begins to doubt Virgil in journey as he says he is not Aeneas nor St.Paul. Virgil Chastises Dante which refreshes his courage and agrees to follow Virgil
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Canto III
Dante and Virgil enter the Vestibule of Hell and see the Gates of Hell with their inscription. Dante sees that here are the Uncommited (Neutrals) which includes angles who would not take side when Satan revolted. The Punishment to chase a banner eternally as they are stung by insects
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Canto IV
Dante awakens from his swoon and Virgil leads him into an abysmal valley into the first Circle of Hell (limbo where the Virtuous Pagans reside. Their punishment is they have no hope of redemption
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Canto V
The seconf circle of Hell where the lustful reside blown about by swirling winds without end. Also, bodiless, they no longer touch each other. Here is Minos, who assigns the damned their circle in hell
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What is a Heroic simile
an extended and complex simile
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Canto VI
The Third Circle of hell is where the Gluttons are punished in a place of cold, slushy rain, that is awfully dirty. Also, Cerberus, the three-headed dog is there who chews and mangles them. Ciacco, the Hog of Florence greets Dante
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Canto VII
The Fourth Circle of Hell is hwere the Prodigal (wasteful) and the Miserly (hoarders) Clash in groups rolling great weights against each other endlessly
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Fifth Circle of Hell
The Wrathful and Slothful are mired in mud of the swampy Styx
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Canto VIII
They cross Styx in a boat. Dante is confronted by Fillipo Argenti who swims in the muck. Dante insults him and Virgil pushes him away from the boat. As they sail away, a mobof sinners attack Argenti. Dante and Virgil come upon the City of Dis but the rebel angels there slam shut the gates and will not let them pass
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Canto IX
Virgil and Dante wait before the closed gates, as they do the 3 furies threaten them and invoke the Gorgon to stare down and turn them to stone. A trumpet blast comes and the gates open up. They are in the sixth circle of hell where the Heretics (Epicurean) are laid out in tombs which are heated by fires to make them red-hot
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Canto X
Dante and Virgil walk the Sixth Circle of Hell where the followers of Epicurus who denied the immorality of the soul and advocated a life of pleasure
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Canto XI
Pope Anastasius is in one of the tombs. The hierarchy of hell is explained: That is, incontinence, then Violence, then Fraud are progressively worse sins, especially the last because it involves intellect and forethought
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Canto XII
The Seventh Circle of Hell in 3 rounds: Violent against Neighbors, Violent against Themselves, and Violent against God, Nature and Art. At the edge of the abyss of this circle hell, they find the Minotaur, Half-human and Half-bull. They encounter 3 centaurs and they fire arrows at any of the sinners attempting to get out of a river of boiling blood, which is the punishment for the violent against neighbors
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Canto XIII
After Virgil and Dante cross the bloody river where it has diminished to a trickle, they come to the Forest of suicides who have been turned into trees who can speak only when their limbs have been broken and they ooze sap. Pier della Vigna is here who killed himself to escape more torture in the dungeon of Frederick II
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Usury
Lending people money with interest
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Simony
when you use your office in a church as a way to gain money or pleasure
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Canto XIV
The Violent against god, Nature and Art are in place of burning sand where fire falls in flakes from the sky. The blasphemers lie on the sand, the Usures are crouched, and the sodomites walk endlessly
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Canto XV
Brunetto Latini, one of Dante's teachers is here with sodomites
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Canto XVIII
The eighth circle of hell is made up of ten ravines called Malebolge (evil pockets). Bolgia 1 is occupied by Panderers ans Seducers who walk naked endlessly and if they slow down or stop are whipped by thr horny devils who accompany them. Bolgia 2 flatters ina river of exrement
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Canto XIX
Bolgia 3 the Simonists (corrupt Chruch offcials) are upside in stone hole resembling baptismal fonts, with legs and feet blazing with fire
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Canto XX
Bologia 4: The Soothsayers who are twisted so that their faces are turned over their backs. They are in incredible pain and their tears run down their buttocks
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Canto XXI
Bolgia 5 the Grafters are sunk in a river of boiling pitch guarded by gargoyles with grappling hooks
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Canto XXII
Bolgia 6 the hypocrites who wear great hooded capes and hoods which appear glided and dzzling, but are lined with lead. they must walk endlessly bearing this burden
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Canto IV
Bolgia 7 where the thieves are punished by being physically entwined with serpents or when bitten by them are transformed so their features melt into theirs before they crumble into ash, then become human again
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Canto XXIV
Bolgia 8 the evil counselors are encased in tongues of flames which quiver when they speak
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Alchemy
a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination
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Cocytus
Frozen lake
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Who is at the very bottom of hell?
Lucifer is at the very bottom
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Canto XXVII
Bolgia Nine is filled with the Sowers of Discord in 3 Rounds: Religious Discord, Political Discord, and Discord among Kinsmen. Here the sinners are hacked open by devils with swords so their guts are spilled open or limbs are severed over and over
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Canto XXIX
Bolgia 10: The Falsifiers. There are four kinds: 1) Alchemists, 2) Evil Impersonators, 3) Counterfeiters, 4) False Witnesses who are punished by a. number of afflictions including fevers, thirst, bloated bodies, scabs that itch and bleed, sores full of pus, lethargy, and disfigurement.
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Canto XXXII
The Ninth Circle which is a frozen lake called Cocytus where sinners are encased in ice, some up to their heads, but others beneath. The sinners are traitors of four kinds: to kindred, to country, to guests, and to masters
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Canto XXXIV
Here at the very bottom of Hell is Lucifer whose wings beat and make the frozen lake ( even colder. He has three faces and there is a sinner in each mouth. They are Cassius, Brutus, and Judas.
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What language is Inferno written in
Italian
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iamb
a rhythm
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What is the canterbury tales written in
Middle English
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Where was Thomas a Becket killed
in the cathedral next to the alter
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Franklin
Wealthy land owner
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Harry Bailly
the host of the Tabard
