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What is a prologue?

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The first scene, occurs before the chorus enters

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What are the stanza forms in poetry?

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Couplet, triplet, quatrain, quintet, sestet, septet, and octave

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Who is Atticus Finch?

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A lawyer in a small southern town who defends a Negro

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What do the bluejays and mad dog represent in TKAM?

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Prejudice

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What is a compound-complex sentence?

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A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause

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What is a harmatia?

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Fatal or tragic flaw that leads to the hero’s downfall

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What is a rhyme?

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Repetition of like sounds

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What is a Haiku?

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A serious poem that focuses on creating one vivid picture or image; 3 lines

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What is a fragment?

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A group of words wrongly punctuated as if it were a complete sentence

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What are the four main themes in TKAM?

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Prejudice, courage, humanity, and education/knowledge

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What are the five different types of imagery?

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Visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory

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What is metonymy?

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Using a word to stand for a closely related idea or thing. Ex: crown, refers to king

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What is an adjective clause?

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Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun in another clause; introduced by relative pronouns or relative adverbs

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What is a Deus ex machina?

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Common device in Greek tragedy (character would literally descended into action from above)

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What is a strophe?

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Indicates right to left movement of chorus

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Who is Bob Ewell?

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Irresponsible, disgraceful, lazy, alcoholic father

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Who is Boo (Arthur Radley)?

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The mysterious neighbor whom the children have never met

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What is a clause?

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A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb

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Iocaste and Laios were told by the oracle that_______________?

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Laios would be killed by his own son and Locaste would marry her own son

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What is a simple sentence?

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Contains one independent clause

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What is a free verse?

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No regular meter or rhyme

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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As a result of hearing the prophecy, Iocaste and Laios try to avoid it by __________?

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Binding the baby’s ankles and having him left on a mountain to die

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Oedipus runs away from his adopted home when he hears a prophecy that ____________?

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He would marry his mother and kill his father

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Who is Miss Stephanie Crawford?
A gossipy neighbor who knows the family histories of the entire neighborhood
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What is anagnorisis?
The hero's recognition or epiphany of his situation/suffering
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Who is Jem?
Scout's older brother
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What is an episode?
Scene that includes dialogue
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Oedipus killed Laios because Laios ___________?
Insulted Oedipus's pride
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When Iocaste learns the truth about Oedipus and her marriage to him, she ____________?
Kills herself
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Who is Scout?
Atticus's young daughter; narrator
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What is a complex sentence?
A sentence that contains one independent clause and at least one dependant clause
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What is a fused sentence?
Two sentences that are incorrectly joined without any punctuation
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What is a comma splice?
Two sentences incorrectly joined by only a comma
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What are the four types of bells is Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells"?
Silver, Golden, alarm, and funeral
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Who is Dill?
Scout's "fiancé"; visits every summer
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What is a limerick?
An amusing five line poem with an anapestic meters
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What is a meter?
The regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed symbols in a line of poetry
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What is a rhyme scheme?
The pattern of rhyming sounds
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What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to things not human
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What is a noun clause?
Function as a noun would; most begin with the word that; some are introduced by indefinite relative pronouns
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What is a compound sentence?
Contains two or more independent clauses
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What is exodos?
Final scene, no choral ode follows
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What is parados?
The point at which the course enters
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What is hubris?
Excessive pride
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What is moira?
Fate
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What is the mood of the poem "Foul Shot"?
Suspense and action
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When Oedipus learns he has fulfilled the prophecy the oracle spoke, he________________?
Gouges out his eyes
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What type of people made up the chorus in Antigone?
Wise old men
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What is an adverb clause?
A clause that describes or modifies a verb in another clause; introduced by relative pronouns or relative adverbs
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Who is Tom Robinson?
A hard working young Negro who gets accused of a crime he did not commit against Mayella Ewell
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What is a stasimon?
Also called an ode; choral reading/chant by chorus
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What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like what they mean
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What is a metaphor?
A comparison that does not use like or as
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What is a ballad?
A narrative poem written in four line stanzas
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What is antistrophe?
Indicates left to right movement of chorus
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What is a stanza?
A division of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme
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Who is Aunt Alexandra?
The very "proper" aunt who come to stay with the Finches
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Who is Eurdydice?
Creon's wife
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Who is the blind prophet who comes to speak to King Creon?
Teiresias
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How are Antigone and Ismene related?
They are sisters
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What is consonance?
The repetition of consonant sounds not at the beginning of words
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What is blank verse?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Who is Mr. Walter Cunningham?
An upright farmer who refuses to accept charity
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How did Creon get to be king?
The former king was his brother-in-law who sons who died in battle
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What are the repetitions of feet?
Monometer, Dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter
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What is heroic couplets?
Iambic pentameter
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What is a rhymed verse?
End rhyme and regular meter
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What is King Creon's decree?
Eteocles is to be buried with honors and Polyneices is left for the birds
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What is the punishment Creon intends for anyone who disobeys his decree?
Stoning
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What is peripeteia?
Reversal/change in fortune for the hero
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What is catharsis?
Audience is released from the pity and fear evoked by the play
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What is tenor?
Idea being expressed or the subject of comparison
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What is sonnet? Describe the English sonnet and the Italian sonnet.
A 14 line poem; English has 3 quatrains and a couplet; Italian has an octave and a setet
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What is a stichomythia?
Fast paced, alternating, one-line dialogue between two characters
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Who is Mr. Underwood?
Owner of the town newspaper
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Who is Miss Caroline Fisher?
One of Scout's teachers
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What is an assonance?
The repetition of stressed vowel sounds
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What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as
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What reason does Antigone give for defying Creon decree?
The gods' laws demand burial, and they are more important than mans' laws
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Who is Mayella Violet Ewell?
Bob Ewell's daughter; accuses Tom of rape
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Who is Calpurnia?
The Negro housekeeper who has raised Jem and Scout
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Who is Judge John Taylor?
The presiding judge at trial
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What is Ismene's decision regarding the king's decree?
She's afraid to go against the king, so she refuses help her sister
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What news does the the sentry bring to Creon?
Someone has gone against the king's decree and buried the body
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Who is Heck Tate?
The sheriff who is also a good friend of Atticus
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Who is Mr. Link Deas?
Tom Robinson's boss; kind to Helen Robinson
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What are three characteristics of a crystal stair?
Clear, sparkly, and smooth
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How does Creon believe the act of burying the body was carried out?
The sentries had been bribed by the king's enemies to bury the body
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How did the guards manage to capture Antigone?
They removed the dirt from the body and saw her covering it with dirt again
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Who is Miss Rachel Haverford?
Dill's aunt who lives next door to the Finches
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What is a synecdoche?
Using a part of something to stand for the whole
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What does Haimon tell King Creon about the people of Thebes' allegiance to him?
He says that the people fear Creon and talk about the respect for Antigone behind his back
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How does the city feel about Antigone's crime?
They do not view it as a crime, but as a loving sister caring for her dead brother
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Describe the death sentence Creon chooses for Antigone.
She will be shut in a stone tomb with a little food and water and left to die
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Who is Uncle Jack Finch?
The bachelor uncle who visits every Christmas
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Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
Another neighbor; kind, open-minded
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What is a vehicle?
The image which conveys or carries the idea of the comparison
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Whom does Antigone blame for her terrible misfortune?
The curse on the house of Oedipus
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What does the prophet claim can be the cause of the gods' negative reaction to their sacrifices and offerings?
They are angry regarding Creon's treatment of Polyneices and Antigone
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What does the prophet claim can be done to repair the evil preformed against the gods?
Creon should admit his errors and put them right
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What warning does Teiresias' give to king Creon if he refuses to heed the prophecies?
The king will lose what is dear to him in repayment to the gods
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Who is Mr. Nathan Radley?
The stern, distant brother of Boo
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What is King Creon's FIRST reaction to Teiresias' message?
He angrily refuses to yield
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Where does the poem "The Base Stealer" talk about?
Baseball and a runner stealing a base
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What did Creon see when he looked into Antigone's tomb?
Antigone's body hanging from the ceiling by her own veil and Haimon clinging to the dead body of Antigone and weeping over her
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What was Haimon's first reaction when Creon entered Antigone's tomb?
He attacked her
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Who is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose?
A vicious lady down the street; Jem reads to her
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What happened when the messenger relayed the news about Haimon and Antigone to Eurydice?
She killed herself
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Who is Reverend Sykes?
A Negro minister who watches the children during the trial
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Who is Dolphus Raymond?
A white man who prefers living with Negros

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