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introduction types

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Quote, Definition, anecdote, background info.

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Thesis statement

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States topic. Last sent of intro

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conclusion

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revisits main idea, justifies thesis but does not say the exact thing. no new information.

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MLA format

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1 inch margin, header(pagination) if more than 1 page (last name page #,top right) x2 space everything, tap 5 spaces, 12 point font.

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heading

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name, instructor, class, date

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titles

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centered, bigger..

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topic sentence

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beginning of body paragraph. states the main idea of a body paragraph and directly supports the thesis

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unity

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this means that all of the ideas within an essay directly support the main idea stated in
the thesis; therefore; it also means that all the information within a paragraph supports that paragraph’s topic sentence. use transitions?

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types of essays

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narrative: telling a story
descriptive: painting a picture by descriptions
expository essays: just the facts
persuasive essay: convincing

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structure of paragraph

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the topic sentence
supporting evidence
conclusion

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introduction purpose

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to capture the readers attention

inform what the essay is about

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components of an introduction

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lead: capture readers attention
thesis: tell reader what its about

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outline

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Roman numerals for the he section under that letters and if under that Roman numerals.

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transitions

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words to keep the flow going words used to show connections between ideas–help improve coherence. however, therefore, nonetheless, as a result, consequently, in spite of this(these start an independent clause and need a comma)

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lead

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a few sentences used to grab the reader’s attention and introduce the topic of the essay.

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coherence

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flow; how info or sentences are put together

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pagination

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Note in the corner that depends on type (MLA) & usually right top & says “Brooking 2”

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writing triad types

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style, content, conventions

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under content

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ideas
development and support
organization and focus

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under style

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sentence fluency
word choice
voice

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under conventions

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grammar and mechanics

format

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the 5 steps in the writing process

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prewriting(brainstorming, creating thesis, outlining), draft, revise(be able to differentiate from editing and proofreading)(STYLE) ? , edit/proofreading, publishing

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sentence combos

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  • IC, fanboys IC. (I ran all the way to school, but I was still tardy.)
  • IC; IC. (I love ice cream; mint chocolate is my favorite.)
  • IC; transition, IC. (Mr. Walker is a nice guy; however, he can be quite terrifying.)
  • IC; I, transition, C. (The Bullpups trained hard all season; they will, therefore, win the GSL title.)
  • IC SC. (I like James Bond movies because they are action-packed.
  • SC, IC. (If he doesn’t get his pet Komodo dragon under control, Eric will have to send it back to Komodo island.)
  • I, SC, C. (Escargot, which is quite delicious, is made from sea snails.)
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fragment

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No independent clause, could be subordinate

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subordinate clauses

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start with a subordinator but have a verb and subject

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independent clause

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can stand alone note: some start with transitions (ex. however, )

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which, who whom (which is in Spokane)

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know its a clause but ask mr. pearson if ind or dep.

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simple

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1 ind 0 dep

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compound

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2 ind 0 dep

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complex

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1 ind,+1 dep

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compound-complex

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+2 ind, +1 dep

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phrase

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group of words without a verb or subject

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o fix a run-on sentence

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;

fanboys(coordinating conj),

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allusion

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a reference to another work

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character

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a person in a novel, play or movie

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direct characterization

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he author tells you what the character is like through adjectives

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indirect characterization

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author shows the characterization through evidence

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conflict

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problem a character must confront

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plot

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things that happen in the story

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__/\__ plot ladder

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exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

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fiction

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a story not based on fact

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foreshadow

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suspense; hints about what will happen later

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flat character

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few characteristics or traits; undeveloped

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round character

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multi-dimensional; well-developed character

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static character

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fixed or unchanging

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dynamic

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changing character

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imagery

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figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses

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irony

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figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.

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verbal irony

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says something which means something else

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dramatic irony

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we know something the character doesnt

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situational irony

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irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

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symbol

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an object which represents something greater than itself

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3rd limited

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not in the story but only know everything about one character

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3rd omniscient or omniscient

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uninvolved and all knowin

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1st person

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is the narrator or one of the characters

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protangonist

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main character of a story

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antagonist

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main conflict or enemy in a story

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tone

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the authors attitude towards a subject

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setting

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place and time

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theme

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main idea -of a poem- between the lines

where the subject is the blunt literal on the lines topic

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pun

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the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.

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organization

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the order of the story or how it is told ex. chronological problem solution

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Hubris

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Extreme pride/self confidence

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Hero cycle definition

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Archetypal pattern for stories

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Hero cycle steps

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1 odd birth 2 wise mentor 3 called to adventure 4 first says no 5 accepts call & someone changes (ex. Fall in love) //threshold of adventure// 6 battles henchmen 7 make a descent to the underworld (literal/mental) 8 low point, giving up, defeat, maybe lost first battle 9 resurrection 10 climax 11 restitution

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Hero

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A hero or heroine refers to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice—that is, heroism—for some greater good of all humanity.

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Myth

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A traditional story from history that explains something (we don’t understand)

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Epic

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Long poem

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Homer

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Wrote Odyssey & epics

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Zeus/Jupiter

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King of gods, god of sky

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Poseidon/Neptune

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god of the sea

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Hestia/ vesta

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god of the hearth

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Hermes/mercury

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Messenger god

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Hephaestus/Vulcan

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god of craftsmanship

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Hera/Juno

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Zeus wife

god of marriage

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Hades/Pluto

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god of underworld

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Dionysus/Bacchus

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god of wine & fertility

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Athena\ Minerva

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god of Warcraft and wisdom

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Artemis/ Diana

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god of the hunt

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Aphrodite/ Venus

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god of love

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Apollo/Apollo

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god of sun, music & prophecy

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Ares/mars

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god of war

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Cronus/Saturn

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Killed father with sickle threw in the ocean & out came furies
Ate children

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Furies

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Peruse people that kill there own family members

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Eros/Cupid

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god of love

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Fates

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3 people who planned your life; deities

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Graces

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Immortal personification of grace & beauty

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Nymph

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Immortal female;

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Icarus

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Made Rome

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Atlas

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Hold heavens

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Pan

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All

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Metis

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Mother of Athena; Zeus first wife; goddess of wisdom, memory?

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Persephone

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Hades wife; daughter of Demeter

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Demeter

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God of agriculture

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Trident

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Gift from cyclops or Hephaestus to Poseidon

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Gaea

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Mother Earth

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Tartarus

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Deepest part of the underworld

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Chaos

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Before everything

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Titans

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Primeval race Powerful deities (Gaea & Uranus children)
the males were Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius, and Iapetus and the females were Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea, and Themis

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Cyclopes

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One eye; Poseidon dad

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Olympus

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Mountain where gods live

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Rhea

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Cronus wife (Titan)

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Styx

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River between life & death

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Midas

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King; gets a bull from Poseidon, loves it, doesn’t give it back, so the wife has it with it = Minotaur (punishment)

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Charon

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Ferry boatsmen of the Styx; transports souls

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Cerberus

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3 headed dog guards underworld

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Centaur

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1/2 human

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Minotaur

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1/2 human

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Danae

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Princess of Argos; Zeus first wife; mom of Perseus

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Matriarchal

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Women led

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Patriarchal

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Male led

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Pandora

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First human by Hephaestus, with Pandoras box with all bad

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Anthropomorphic

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Human anthropomorphism; personification; giving the gods human traits

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Polytheism

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Belief in many gods

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Monotheism

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Belief in one God

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Prometheus

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Protects humans; Titan; messed with Zeus, got fire taken away, stole it back, pecked out over and over in hell, but teach human skills/fire, freed by Hercules & help him ?

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Tantalus

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In hell, water & food right out of his reach

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Sisyphus

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In hell, push up roll constantly

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Hercules

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Had to do 12 tasks cuz he killed wife & children because of rage of Hera

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Medusa

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Hair of snakes & look at = stone

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Echo

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Echo was a Nymph who had the job of talking incessantly to Hera, the Queen of the Gods, so that her husband, Zeus, would not get caught in his numerous affairs. Hera caught on to Echo’s trick and cursed her to only be able to say what others had just said — hence the word “echo

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Narcissus

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Fell in love with himself(read)

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Pygmalion

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Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved (Galicia)

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Daedalus

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Made labyrinth for Minos’ Minotaur, he knew path, Minos imprisoned him, he flew away with his son (Icarus) but Icarus got too close to son & died- Icarian sea

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Medias

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Touch of gold ?

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Narcissus

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Saw reflection in a pool, fell in love & stayed to death.

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Amazons

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7 ft tall soldier woman race

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Odysseus

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10 years find way home

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Achilles

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Greatest warrior for who ?

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Penelope

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Odysseus wife

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Telemachus

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Odysseus son

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Pantheon

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Temple dedicated to Athena

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Hamarita

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Mistake\error

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Arête

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Excellence of any kind

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Kleos

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Glory

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Ilium

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Troy

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Polyphemus

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Cyclopes Odysseus messes with by riding out under sheeps

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Charybdis

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Whirlpool odes sues has to deal with

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Scylla

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Dog eating cliff

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Lotus eaters

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Eat lotus want to stay forever

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Helios

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Titan of the son

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Calypso

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Keep Odysseus 7 year

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Odysseus journey list

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Ismaros, land of the cicones
Lotos Eaters
Hyperia
Aiolia
Laistrygonia (stronghold of Lamos)
Aiaia
Erebos
Skylla and the Kharybdis
Thryinakia
Ogygia
Skheria
Ithaka
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Tradegy

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A play that after the climax turns bad

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4 great tragedies

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King leer
Othello
Macbeth
Hamlet

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Comedy

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At the climax is resolved and ends well

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Comedy’s

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The tempest
All’s well that ends well
A mid summers night dream

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History

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Based on history

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Examples of histories

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Richard

Henry

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Iambic petemeter

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10 beats per line (meter)

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Rhythm

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Regular stressing of words to make a beat

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Meter

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Beat (regular syllable emphasis) regular rhythm

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Couplet

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Group of two words that rhyme

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End-stopped line

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Line in poetry that ends in a period or a comma

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Enjambment

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Run on line, line of poetry that goes onto the next

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Elizabethan

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Era that brought back art, Shakespeare’s time

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Queen Elizabeth

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Ruler of London of England at beginning of Shakespeare’s life

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King James

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Ruler of England for end of Shakespeare’s life

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The Globe

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Shakespeare’s theater

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Globe motto, on building

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The world is a stage

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Stratford

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Shakespeare’s hometown

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London

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Where Shakespeare wrote his plays & produced them at the Globe

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Bard

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Poet, that recites poetry orally

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Thames

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River flowing through London, England in Shakespeare’s time

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Lords chamberlains mean, kings men

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Shakespeare’s actors under lord chamberlain during Elizabeth’s reign, his actors under King James’ reign

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What they called people that payed a penny to get into the globe and were on the floor

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Groundling/ penny nave

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Metaphor

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Comparison without using like or as

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Personification

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Giving something non-human, human like characteristics ex: the wind whistled

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Figurative language

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Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

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Rhyme

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correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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Shakespeare’s wife

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Anne Hathaway

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Sonnet

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14 line poem

Shakespearean: 3 quatrains, 1 couplet

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Quatrain

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Group of four lines in a poem that have a rhyme scheme

Ex: ABAB

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The rose

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Rival playhouse, before globe, on south bank

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Imagery

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visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

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Acts

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5 in a regular Shakespeare play

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Aside

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A comment from an actor to the audience, quick side note that no other characters are aware of

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Soliloquy

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Dramatic speech by one character alone tot he audience

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Alliteration

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Repeated consonant sound

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Connotation

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Interpretation not supposed to be literal, opposite denotation, implyed meaning, what is meant

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Denotation

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Supposed to be be taken literall, what is said

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Figure of speech

A

Anything not to be taken literally

184
Q

Stanza

A

A group of lines, paragraph in poetry

185
Q

Onomatopoeia

A

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Ex: hiss, honk

186
Q

Assonance

A

Repeated vowel sounds

187
Q

Symbol

A

Some object that represents something greater than itself

Ex: that dandelion represented hope

188
Q

Ballad

A

A long poem song like telling a story

189
Q

Free verse

A

Poem with no structure

190
Q

Imagery

A

Language appeals to our senses

191
Q

Charybdis

A

Whirlpool for odessues

192
Q

Scylla

A

Six headed sea serpent

193
Q

Calypso

A

7 years

194
Q

Circe

A

1 year, men to pigs

195
Q

Ithaca

A

Odessues home

196
Q

Helios

A

men once again go against his orders and eat Helios’ cattle. This outrages the god, and he threatens never to rise again. As a punishment, Zeus throws a bolt of lightning at the ship, and turns it to splinters. Only Odysseus survive

197
Q

Book, movie, novel title

A

Italicized

198
Q

Song and poems

A

“Quotations”

199
Q

Sirens

A

Odysseus meets them , his men put wax in ears and he is tied to a pole

200
Q

Helios

A

After getting to Helios’ island thrinacia, they get stuck for a month so odysseus goes to pray on a mountain to the gods. The men eat Helios’ cattle, which they were told not too.

201
Q

Name of cyclops in odyssey

A

Polyphemus

202
Q

Lotus eaters

A

Stuck on an island eat lotus flowers and loose will to live

203
Q

Apostrophe uses

A

Possessive

Connection

204
Q

Capital South

A

Direction: no

The South: pt of USA: yes

205
Q

Semicolon

Colon

A

Colon: ic:sc
Semicolon: ic;ic

206
Q

Corresponding five steps

A

Prewriting: content
Revising:style
Drafting: conventions

207
Q

Saman

A

Some all most any none ~plural

208
Q

Special singular

A

Singular- one each body

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