English 2 Semester Review
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- narrative
- a story that is told, written, or acted out
- redundance
- unneeded repetition
- antaeus
- duty was to lower virgil and dante into circle 9
- singing choral odes
- function of the chorus in Oedipus the King
- greatest sadness
- remembering happiness when you are in misery
- onomatopoeia
- use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
- barrator
- swindler, cheats people
- symbol
- a literary device that uses something to represent something else
- purses
- what the usurers wear around their throats
- linen maid
- because of an oracle, the baby oedipus was given to _______.
- 1st person
- narrator is a character in the story hear and see only what the narrator hears and sees
- irony
- contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
- consonance
- stylistic device often used in poetry characterized by the repetition of two or more consonants using different vowels, Ex "i" and "a" in "pittter patter"
- onomatopoeia
- words that represent sounds
- gate of hell
- through me you enter into the city of woes/through me you enter into eternal pain,/ through me you enter the population of loss...abandon all hope, you who enter here
- betrayed jesus
- sin of iscariot
- anachronism
- event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
- asyndeton
- a stylistic scheme in which conjuncitons are delibrately omitted from a series of related clauses. effect of speeding up a rhyme and making a single idea more memorable
- flashback
- scene in a movie, play, short stroy, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time
- oxymoron
- figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms, used for rhetoric effect
- personification
- giving lifelike qualities to inanimate objects Ex(capatilize Idea)
- hyperbole
- figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect, overstatement
- circle 7 round 1
- ring where one would find murderers, people who are violent with their hands
- creyon
- who is in charge at the end of the play
- apostrophe
- figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is adressed as though present
- bocca
- why do you kick me? if you were not sent/ to wreak a further vengeance for montaperti,/ why do you add this to my other torment?
- structure
- the pattern of organization in a literary piece
- paradox
- a statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but that reveals a truth
- rhetorical question
- a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply
- dante
- "midway in our life's journey, i went astray/from the straight road and woke to find myself/alone in a dark wood."
- setting
- the time and place of the action of a story or poem
- 3rd person limited
- narrator plays no part in the story, zooms on the thoughts and feelings of one character
- anaphora
- in rhetoric, the emphasizing of words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses
- rivers
- what are the acquacheta and the forli
- metaphor
- a comparison that does not use like or as in the phrasing
- conflict
- the tension, problem, or issue to be solved
- plot
- the events or action of the story
- acheron river
- river that circles the rim of hell
- foreshadowing
- the writer hints as to what is going to happen
- dante
- joy to you, florence, that your banner swell,/beating their proud wings over land and sea,/ and that your name expands through all of hell
- pagans
- who is in the first circle
- nimrod
- built the tower of babel
- poet
- what was virgil's occupation
- stanza
- paragraphs in poetry
- aliteration
- repeating first consonant sounds of words in a series
- pope nicholas III
- are you there already, boniface? are you there/already? by several years the writ/has lied
- sphinx
- poses a riddle on the road leading to thebes
- alchemist
- who is capocchio
- daughters
- oedipus is led away by his_____ at the end of the play
- epiphany
- a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight
- allusion
- reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts
- ellipsis
- the omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding
- sophocles
- this greek dramatist wrote Oedipus the King
- father
- oedipus knows he has killed his _____ at the end of the play
- imagery
- making word pictures appealing to the five senses
- swirling in a storm
- punishment in the Second circle
- polybos
- who oedipus believed was his father
- syllogism
- a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
- simon magus
- sold holy items for profit
- omniscient
- "all knowing" narrator knows everything but is not part of the story
- cerberus
- guardian of circle three
- simile
- a comparison that uses like or as in the description
- theme
- the big ideas or central messages in a story or poem
- metonymy
- the use of a word for a concept with which the original concept behind this word is asscoiated. the substituition is based on contiguity
- point of view
- vantage point from which a writer tells a story
- pit of garbage
- how are the flatterers punished
- motif
- a recurring or dominate element, a theme
- crete
- where does rhea reside
- guelphs
- political affiliation of the 3 shades
- styx
- marsh in the fifth circle