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Zeus

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-Jupiter; god of the sky; king of the gods; married to Hera

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Hera

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-Juno; goddess of marriage; queen of the gods; married to Zeus

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Hades

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-Pluto; god of death; ruler of Tartarus; took Persephone as his wife

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Ares

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-Mars; god of war; father of Eros

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Athena

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-Minerva; goddess of wisdom; born out of Zeus’ head; maiden goddess—she vowed to never get married

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Apollo

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-Apollo; god of poetry, art, oracles, archery, medicine, sun, light, and knowledge; twin sister is Artemis

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Artemis

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-Diana; goddess of hunt, the Moon, and archery; twin sister of Apollo; maiden goddess—vowed to never get married

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Aphrodite

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-Venus; goddess of love and beauty, mother of Eros; wife to Hephaestus

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Demeter

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-Ceres; goddess of agriculture, fertility, and the harvest

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Hephaestus

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-Vulcan; god of fire and the forge; husband to Aphrodite

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Hermes

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-Mercury; messenger god; fastest god

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Dionysus

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-Bacchus; god of wine and theatre

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Hestia

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-Vesta; goddess of the hearth and home; maiden goddess—vowed to never get married

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Tartarus

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The underworld

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Arachne

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-committed suicide; got turned into a spider by Athena

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Orpheus

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-greatest musician of his time; went to the underworld to try to get his wife (Eurydice) back

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Charon

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-ferry man who takes souls across the river and into the underworld

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Medusa

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-monster with snakes for hair; if she looks you in the eyes you turn to stone, has a snake like body; killed by Perseus

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Narcissus

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-fell in love with his own reflection; turned into a flower

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Eurydice

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-wife of Orpheus; killed by snakes

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Ariadne

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-helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur

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Daedalus

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-great inventor who created the Labyrinth

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Icarus

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-son of Daedalus; flew to close to the sun; melted his wax wings

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River Styx

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-river in Tartarus that is extremely powerful

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Pandora

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-created by Zeus and Hephaestus; given a box from Hermes, told not to open it, opened it and evil entered the world

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Perseus

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-killed Medusa; married Andromeda

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Pyramus

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-loved Thisbe; killed himself when he thought she was dead

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Thisbe

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-loved Pyramus; killed herself when she found Pyramus dead

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Helen of Troy

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-wife Menelaus; left him for Paris

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Odysseus

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-came up with the he idea of the Trojan horse; made it past the sirens

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Theseus

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-killed the Minotaur; duke of Athens in MSND; married to Hippolyta

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Lysander

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-loves Hermia; Hermia loves him; falls in love with Helena after he gets anointed with the love potion

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Demetrius

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-loves Hermia; Helena loves him; loves Helena after he gets anointed with the love potion

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Egeus

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-Hermia’s father; wants Hermia to marry Demetrius

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Helena

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-loves Demetrius; loved by Lysander and Demetrius after being anointed by the love potion

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Hermia

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-loves Lysander; loved by Lysander and Demetrius

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Titania

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-married to Oberon; queen of the fairies; falls in love with the he head of a donkey

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Oberon

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-King of he fairies; married to Titania

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Hippolyta

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-former Amazonian warrior; engaged/married to Theseus

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Randy

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-friends with Bob; doesn’t get involved in the rumble

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Sodapop

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-Pony’s brother; nice to Pony

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Cherry

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-Soc; Bob’s girlfriend; acts as a spy for the greasers

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Ponyboy

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-main character in the Outsiders

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Bob

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-Soc; tried to drown Ponyboy; killed by Johnny

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Prometheus

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-Titan who took sides with the gods on the war against the Titans; is punished by Zeus for giving man fire; chained to a mountain and everyday an eagle eats his gut, they regenerate at night, and then it happens again

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Puck

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-fairy; anoints everyone with the love potion under the order of Oberon; is a trickster

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Dally

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-criminal of the group; gives Johnny and Pony a gun and $50 to run away; kills himself when Johnny dies; goes into the burning church to try to save Johnny

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Darry

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-Pony’s oldest brother; doesn’t play football or do what he wants to take care of Pony and Soda

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Hero

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-sixth grader protagonist

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Johnny

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-dies being a hero; kills Bob

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Danny

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-eighth grader; friends with Danny; gives the diamond back to his mom; dad is police chief

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Mrs. Roth

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-Mr. Murphy’s first wife; mother of Anna Roth; Danny’s mother

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Beatrice

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-Hero’s sister

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prose

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-not poetry

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Drama

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-story that is acted out; a play

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Malapropism

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-when a word is used incorrectly

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Italian Sonnet

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-sonnet where the last two lines do not rhyme

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Octave

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-the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet

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Poetry

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-literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature

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Concealment

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-the action of hiding something or preventing it from being known

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Stratford

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-city where William Shakespeare was born

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Couplet

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-two lines of a poem

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Volta

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-the turn in the first line of the sestet after the octave in an Italian Sonnet

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Genre

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-a category of literature

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Oxymoron

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-polar opposites

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Sonnet

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-fourteen line poem

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Quatrain

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-four lines of poetry

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Personification

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-the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

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Novel

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-long, narrative prose (story)

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Allusion

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-an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

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English Sonnet

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-sonnet where the last two lines do rhyme

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Sestet

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-the last six lines of an Italian sonnet

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Alliteration

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-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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