honors english
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- helen
- helen of troy (wife of king menelaus) started trojan war
- prose
- all writing that is not drama or poetry
- anapest
- u u /
- personification
- giving nonhuman things human characteristics
- demodocus
- poet; self-portrait of homer; sings a song about the war
- scansion
- another word for scanning
- penelope
- odysessus' wife
- ballad
- a story told with a beat that makes it easy to recite
- direct metaphor
- directly comparing using is
- king alcinous
- king of phaecia
- simile
- 2 dissimilar things compared with like or as
- mentor
- family friend
- foot
- basic building block of meter- consists of one stressed and 1 or more un.
- tone
- speakers attitude
- poseidon
- god of sea; odysseus' enemy
- dactyl
- / u u
- iamb
- when a stressed syllable always follows an un.
- antinous
- one of Penelope's leading suitors
- princess nausicaa
- young daughter of king alcinous and queen aerte; odysseus meets her on the beach
- ironic line
- referring to the difference b/w expecting something and reality
- paraphrasing
- restating the text in your own words
- repition
- poetry that has no regular meter
- comparision
- similarities
- free verse
- poetry free of regular meter; conversational verse
- dialect
- a version of language spoken by the ppl of a particular place
- skimming
- looking over the poem
- eumaeus
- swineheard
- apostrophe
- with an 's' for possesive, contraction
- teiresias
- famous blind prophet; meets odysseus in the land of the dead
- achilles
- fought in trojan war; died young; sees odysseus in land of the dead
- line
- a verse
- refrain
- a line or phrase repeated throughout the song
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- metaphor
- a comparision
- stanza
- group of lines in a poem
- onomatopoeia
- fitting the sound of the words to the sense of the words
- diction
- word choice
- eurycleia
- odysessus' nurse who first recognizes him when he returns
- limerick
- humorous poem
- meter
- has a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- rhyme
- repitition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds like them
- indirect metaphor
- suggests comparision without using is
- spondee
- / /
- alliteration
- repitition of the same consonant sounds
- circe
- witch goddess, turns his men into pigs
- king menelaus
- brother of agamemmon; king of sparta
- lyric poem
- comparatively short poems
- scanning
- analyzing the poem to determine its meter
- haiku
- a poem containing 17 syllables; 5,7,5
- trochee
- / u
- pun
- playing with meanings
- laertes
- odysseus's father
- sonnet
- 14 line poem
- assonance
- repitition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with dif. sounds
- rhythm
- musical quality made by the reptition of stressed/unstressed syllables
- allusion
- refrence to a statement known from history, literature, etc.
- odysseus
- protagionist/war hero of the Trojan war; trying to return home
- imagery
- images appealing to the 5 senses
- calypso
- beautiful goddess nymph, keeps odysseus for 7 years
- satire
- writing that ridicules something
- polyphemus
- the cyclops; blinded by odysseus; son of poseidon
- contrast
- differences
- telemachus
- odysessus' son
- composition
- writing
- athena
- odysessus' mentor; goddess of wisdom