literary and mythology
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- hera
- goddess of love and marriage roman name Juno
- Symbol
- a object , person, place or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself
- exposition
- the part of a narrative or drama in which important back ground information is revealed
- In medias res
- the technique of plugging into the middle of the story
- Parallelism
- the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar in meaning
- Metaphor
- a figure of speech that makes a compassion between 2 things that are basically dissimilar
- Epic
- a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero
- Aphrodite
- goddess of love and beauty, father is zeus/ roman name is venus
- Muse
- a source of inspiration for artists poets etc.
- allegory
- a story with 2 meanings
- Epimetheus
- god of afterthought and a titan
- hermes
- messenger god and roman name is mercury
- Archetype
- an original or standard pattern or model
- foreshadowing
- the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what will happen later
- external conflict
- the outside of a character struggles against an outside force
- Irony
- a contrast between what is stated and what is really meant or between what is expected to happen
- Demeter
- godess of harvest also married to zeus
- Rhea
- mother of greek goddesses and a titan
- Hades
- god of death/immortals roman name is pluto
- Uranus
- god of sky and heaven children were the titans had 12 titans and his wife is Geae
- Cyclops
- rounded eye, was son of poseiden
- Prometheus
- titan and creator of mankind,mother is gaea
- flashback
- a scene in a short story novel play or narrative poem that interrupts an action to show an event that happened earlier
- Geae
- godess of earth, had 6 sons and 6 daughters was the wife of Uranus
- theme
- a general idea about life that a writer wishes to express in a literary work
- Hephaestus
- god of fire / son of zeus and hera
- Atlas
- god of the day/ bearer and endurer , was a titan, a brother of his was prometheus
- Pandora
- she was the first women, Athena clothed and protected her
- Lyric
- a short poem, to express ones thoughts
- Denouement
- the outcome of a plot
- climax
- the point of greatest intensity interest or suspense
- Apollo
- god of the sun, his parents were herra and zeus
- Poseiden
- god of the sea, latin word is neptune, his brothers hades and zeus
- Dionysus
- god of win, roman name is bacchus parents were Zeus and Semele, 7 brothers and sisters
- Persephone
- daughter of demeter and zeus, godess of innocence and joy
- Invocation
- at the beginning of an epic a call to a muse god or spirit
- ares
- god of war and roman name is mars
- internal conflict
- the inside of a character and its struggles between opposing needs
- artemis
- goddess of hunt and roman name is Diana
- athena
- goddess of wisdom and roman name is minerva
- Chronos
- is father of time and is a titan