English Semester Exam
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- Antagonist
- A character, institution, group, or force that is in contact with the protagonist
- Chryseis
- Trojan; daughter of Chryses, a priest of Apollo, Agamemnon's prize of honor
- Rising Action
- The path of the plot leading to the climax
- Climax
- The high point in the plot, after which there is falling action
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing
- Allusion
- A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, myth, or religion
- Cassandra
- Trojan; daughter of Priam and Hecuba, sister of Hector and Paris
- Personification
- A figure of speech that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object
- Foil
- A character who, through contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character
- Hector
- Trojan; son of Priam and Hecuba, husband of Andromache, father of Astyanax, brother of paris, commander of Trojan forces, greatest trojan warrior
- Briseis
- Trojan; Achilles' prize of honor
- Assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words that do not rhyme
- Pun
- A play on words
- Calchas
- Greek; chief prophet of the Greeks
- Agamemnon
- Greek; son of Atreus, older brother of Menelaus, king of Mycenae, commander of all the Greek forces
- Clytemnestra
- Greek; wife of Agamemnon, queen of Mycenae
- Deiphobus
- Trojan; son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Hector and Paris
- Achilles
- Greek; son of the hero Peleus and the sea-goddess Thetis, leader of the Myrmidons, greatest Greek warrior
- Rhyme
- Words with identical sounds, but different spellings
- Menelaus
- Greek; son of Atreus, younger brother of Agamemnon, king of Sparta, husband of Helen
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike, using the words like, as, or an
- Denouement
- The falling action or final revelations in the plot
- Pandarus
- Trojan; s respected Trojan spearman
- Figurative Language
- The use of figures of speech to express ideas
- Epic
- A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero such as "The Odyssey"
- Ellipsis
- Three periods (. . .) that signify the omission of one or more words
- Hecuba
- Trojan; wife of Priam, queen of Troy, mother of Hector, Paris, Diephobus, and Cassandra
- Falling Action
- All action that takes place after the climax
- Phoenix
- Greek; Achilles' tutor
- Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant or vowel in two or more successive or nearby words
- Couplet
- A pair of rhyming lines in the same meter
- Archetypes
- Primordial images and symbols that occur in literature, myth, religion, and folklore
- Andromache
- Trojan; wife of Hector, mother of Astyanax
- Sensory Imagery
- Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the five senses
- Hyperbole
- A figure of speech that uses exaggeration
- Irony
- The opposite of what is expected
- Patroclus
- Greek; best friend of Achilles
- TIE
- Tool used to add quotations or dialogue to writing
- Astyanax
- Trojan; son of Hector and Andromache
- Epic
- A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic and legendary figures or the history of a nation
- Onomatopoeia
- A figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound
- Odysseus
- Greek; son of the hero Laertes, king of Ithaca, master of strategies
- Ajax
- Greek; son of the hero Telamon, second greatest Greek warrior
- Aeneas
- Trojan; son of Aphrodite and Anchises
- Protagonist
- The main character
- Polydamas
- Trojan; Hector's good friend and wise counselor
- Consonance
- The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words
- Extended Metaphor
- A metaphor that is elaborated on and developed in several phases or sentances
- Poetic Devices
- Words with harmonious sounds including assonance, consonance, alliteration, repetition, and rhyme
- Priam
- Trojan; king of troy, husband of Hecuba, father of Hector, Paris, Diephobus, and Cassandra
- Epitaph
- An inscription on a tomb or gravestone
- Paris
- Trojan; son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Hector, abductor of Helen
- Analogy
- A comparison of two things that are somewhat alike
- Rhyme Scheme
- The pattern of rhyming words - the last word in each line is assigned a letter starting with A and continuing through the alphabet
- Essay
- A short nonfiction work about a specific subject - may be narrative, persuasive, descriptive, expository, or argumentative
- Nestor
- Greek; king of Pylos, old, wise greek leader
- Myth
- A fictional tale about gods or heroes
- Conflict
- The struggle between characters with other characters, forces of nature, or outside forces beyond their control, internal conflict within a character who struggles with moral choices and maters of conscience
- Helen
- Greek; daughter of Zeus and Nemesis, wife of Menelaus and Queen of Sparta until abducted by Paris and taken to Troy
- Repetition
- A poetic device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or sentances