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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Who wrote “A Reply to an Imitation of the Second Ode of Horace”?

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Richard Bentley

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What are the themes of “A Reply to an Imitation of the Second Ode of Horace”?

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persistence, quest for knowledge and achievement

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Who wrote “The Death of Hector”?

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Homer

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What two works is Homer famous for?

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the Illiad and the Odessey

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What is Achilles compared to in “The Death of Hector”?

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Orion’s Hound (a constellation) and a mountain falcon

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What is Hector compared to in “The Death of Hector”?

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a serpent

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What work are these lines from “Surely it would be better for me to return after having fought Achilles and slain him, or to die gloriously here before the city”?

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The Death of Hector

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What literary device is used in the lines to know from “The Death of Hector”?

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honor vs. shame

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Who is the god that supports Hector?

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Apollo

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Who is the god that supports Achilles?

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Athena

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Who are watching Achilles chase Hector around the city?

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the gods

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What are the themes of “The Return of Odysseus”?

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loyalty, perseverance, hospitality truth vs. deception, cunning vs. strength

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Who was the king of Ithaca and a hero of the Trojan War renowned for his strength and cunning?

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Odysseus

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Who was Odysseus’ wife?

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Penelope

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Who was Odysseus’ son?

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Telemachus

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How long had Odysseus been gone?

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20 years

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17
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How long had Telemachus been gone loking for his father?

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10 years

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Who was the first person that Odysseus visited?

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Eumaeus the swineherd

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What is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; the difference between what a character of speaker says and what the text reveals?

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irony

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What type of irony contrasts what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?

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dramatic irony

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What type of irony is the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens?

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situational irony

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What type of irony is saying the opposite of what is meant?

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verbal irony

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What work are these lines from: “I an no god, why should you take me for one? I am your father, on whose account you grieve and suffer so much at the hands of lawless men”?

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The Return of Odysseus

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What idea did Penelope claim she received from heaven to delay her suitors?

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to say that she would marry the one of the suitors when she finished Odysseus’ tambor-frame, but would undo the stitches at night

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What did Penelope tell the servants to move to test Odysseus?

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to move his bed

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Who wrote “Homer and the Bible”?

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Rev. Francis Wayland

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In “Homer and the Bible” what does the author say has made the Iliad unique and able to stand the test of time?

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It inspired and gave laws to the artist, the poet, and even influenced the senate in ancient Greece

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What was the purpose of the Iliad according to “Homer and the Bible”?

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to give dignity to the Greek gods

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What caused Homer to fail in elevating the Greek religion?

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he showed their flaws an unworthy of being worshipped as gods; he showed them as glorified humans

30
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What means “a specific underlying view of life, religion, and the world as a whole”?

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philosophy

31
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What work are these lines from: “We should recognize that secular philosophy falls short of its goals because it searches for truth outside the one ultimately reliable source of truth - God.”?

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“Should Christians Study Philosophy”

32
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What was a group of traveling public speakers who traveled throughout ancient Greece, offering to educate men in what they called the aretē (virtue, excellence)?

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Sophists

33
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What was the Greek philosopher who rejected the ideas of the Sophists and spent much of his life defending the pursuit of true virtue in his philosophic methods?

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Socrates

34
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What was the Greek philosopher who became a very influential philosopher in his own right and popularized the Socratic method as a way to discover truth?

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Plato

35
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Who was the Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great, studied at Plato’s Academy and founded Lyceum?

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Aristotle

36
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Who studied under Aristotle beginning at the age of thirteen and demonstrated astounding intellect and skill in both philosophy and science?

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Alexander the Great

37
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Who wrote “Society and the Philosopher”?

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Plato

38
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What is a type of literary work in which a wise man, pretending to be ignorant, presents a series of questions to another man to test the other man’s understanding of moral issues?

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Socratic dialogue

39
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What is sort of philosophical interrogation meant to lead a man who professes to know something to recognize any inconsistencies in what he believes to find the truth by eliminating what is inconsistent?

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Socratic method

40
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What are the symbols in the story “The Ship” and what do they represent?

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  • The ship - the world
  • The sun - common men
  • The pilot (captain) - the philosopher
41
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What do the sailors in “The Ship” believe makes one a good sailor?

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if he can get in control of the ship

42
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What work are these lines from: “So with such things happening on the ships, don’t you believe that the pilot will really be called a stargazer, a prater and useless to them by those who sail on ships run like this?”?

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The Ship

43
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What are the symbols in “The Cave” and what do they represent?

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  • The cave - the world
  • The sun - the higher truth of philosophy
  • The inhabitance of the cave - common men
  • The man who is released from the cave - the philosopher
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What work are these lines from: “‘They’re like us,’ I said. ‘For in the first place, do you suppose such men would have seen anything of themselves and one another other than the shadows cast by the fire on the side of the cave facing them?”?

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The Cave

45
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Who wrote “Alexander”?

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Plutarch

46
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What are the main themes of “Alexander”?

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ambition, power, and knowledge

47
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Which of Plutarch’s books in invaluable to scholars because of Greek and Roman history because of the unique details it provides about its subjects?

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Lives

48
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Who was Alexander’s tutor?

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Aristotle

49
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How did Alexander win favor from the visiting dignitaries of his father’s kingdom?

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by speaking kindly and intelligently with them

50
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What is Alexander’s response when his father would conquer other kingdoms?

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he was upset because he wanted to conquer kingdoms himself

51
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Who wrote “The Fall of Troy”?

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Virgil

52
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What are the themes of “The Fall of Troy”?

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deceit, comassion, fate

53
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What was the wager that Alexander made with his father?

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if Alexander could not end up training a horse, he would pay for it himself

54
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Who is often regarding as one of the greatest Roman poets?

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Virgil

55
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What was praised as a national epic for its glorification of Rome and Caesar Ausgustus?

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Aeneid

56
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From whose perspective is “The Fall of Troy” told?

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Aeneas

57
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What is the perspective from which a story is told?

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point of view

58
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What is the point of view used where the narrator is part of the story and is relating events he personally observed or experienced?

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first person

59
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What is the point of view used when the story is addresses to the reader?

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second person

60
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What is the point of view what the narrator is not part of the story, but is relating events that the main character or characters observes or experience?

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third person

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What type of third person is where the narrator presents the details of the story without describing the thoughts of feelings of any of the characters?

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objective

62
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What type of third person is where the narrator presents the details of the story from the perspective of a certain character?

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limited

63
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What type of their person is when the narrator presents the details of the story from the perspective of someone who knows and sees everything?

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omniscient

64
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What are the themes of “The Creation of Pandora”?

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beauty, false nature and origin or women

65
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What was the name of the first woman that Zeus created?

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Pandora

66
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Why did Zeus create Pandora?

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to be an affliction to mankind

67
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Who was the titan who stole fire from Zeus?

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Prometheus

68
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Who wrote “The Story of Midas” and “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus”?

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Ovid

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What are the themes of “The Story of Midas”?

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wealth vs. happiness, the consequences of greed, repentance

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What are the themes of “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus”?

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obedience, the folly of youth, pride, the laws of nature

71
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What is a truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction?

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paradox

72
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What are the themes of “The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe”?

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love, reason vs. emotion

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