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- NESTOR
- KING OF PYLOS; OLD, WISE GREEK LEADER
- Rhyme
- Words with identical sounds, but different spellings.
- PRIAM
- KING OF TROY; HUSBAND OF HECUBA; FATHER OF HECTOR, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, AND CASSANDRA
- Rising action
- The path of the plot leading to the climax
- Repetition
- A poetic device that uses the repeating or words, sounds, phrases, or sentences
- Conflict
- The struggle between characters and other characters, forces of nature, or outside forces beyond their control, internal conflict within a character who struggles with moral choices and matters of conscience.
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected. A reality different from appearance
- CHRYSEIS
- DAUGHTER OF CHRYSES, A PRIEST OF APOLLO; AGAMEMNON'S PRIZE OF HONOR
- HELEN
- DAUGHTER OF ZEUS AND THE GOSSESS NEMESIS; REARED BY KING TYNDAREUS AND QUEEN LEDA OF SPARTA; WIFE OF MENELAUS AND QUEEN OF SPARTA UNTIL ABDUCTED BY PARIS AND TAKEN TO TROY
- PARIS
- SON OF PRIAM AND HECUBA; BROTHER OF HECTOR; ABDUCTOR OF HELEN
- HECUBA
- WIFE OF PREAM; QUEEN OF TROY; MOTHER OF HECTOR, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, AND CASSANDRA
- ANDROMACHE
- WIFE OF HECTOR; MOTHER OF ASTYANAX
- CLYTEMNESTRA
- DAUGHTER OF KING TYNDARAUS AND QUEEN LEDA OF SPARTA; WIFE OF AGAMEMNON; QUEEN OF MYCENAE
- Sensory imagery
- Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the readers of the five senses
- Consonance
- The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words.
- Analogy
- A comparison of two things that are somewhat alike.
- BRISEIS
- ACHILLES' PRIZE OF HONOR
- ASTYANAX
- SON OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE
- Foil
- A character who, through contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character.
- POLYDAMAS
- HECTOR'S GOOD FRIEND AND WISE COUNSELOR
- Figurative language
- The use of figures of speech to express ideas.
- PATROCLUS
- ACHILLES' BEST FRIEND
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike, using the words like, as, or than
- HECTOR
- SON OF PRAM AND HECUBA; HUSBAND OF ANDROMACHE; FATHER OF ASTYANAX; BROTHER OF PARIS; COMMANDER OF THE TROJAN FORCES; GREATEST TROJAN WARRIOR
- Couplet
- A pair of rhyming lines in the same meter.
- Denouement
- The falling action or final revelations in the plot.
- Antagonist
- A character, institution, group, or force that is in conflict with the protagonist
- Thesis
- Subject, Opinion
- ODYSSEUS
- SON OF THE HERO LAERTES; KING OF ITHACA; MASTER OF STRATEGIES
- Hyperbole
- A figure of speech that uses exaggeration.
- Onomatopoeia
- A figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound.
- ACHILLES
- SON OF THE HERO PELEUS AND THE SEA-GODDESS THETIS; LEADER OF THE MYRMIDONS; GREATEST GREEK WARRIOR
- MENELAUS
- SON OF ATREUS; YOUNGER BROTHER OF AGAMEMNON; KING OF SPARTA; HUSBAND OF HELEN
- Allusion
- A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, myth, or religion
- Rhyme scheme
- The pattern of rhyming words. The last word in each line is assigned a letter of the alphabet beginning with a.
- Archetypes
- Primordial images and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore
- AGAMEMNON
- SON OF ARTEUS; OLDER BROTHER OF MEMELAUS; KING OF MYCENAE; COMMANDER OF ALL GREEK FORCES; HUSBAND OF CLYTEMNESTRA
- Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant or vowel sounds in two or more successive or nearby words