Greek heros unit Flashcards
Irony (situational, verbal, dramatic)
you expect something and something else happens
Allusion
reference to another piece of work
Flashback
retelling of post events
alliteration
repertition of consinit sounds to create rythem
motife
an item that shows up multiple times in the story
idiom
when you say one thing but it means another
hubris
someone who has a big ego
didatic
something that is meant to teach a lesson
parody
a comicls imitation of a story/song
jargon
terms / words that unique to an industry
pun
a play on words
foreshadowing
something that is gonna happen in the future
antigonist
person that goes against the main character
author purpose
reason/intent for writing
character motivation
the reason why the character choses to do something
theme
overall message
The hero who died at a young age
phaethon
boatman of the under world
charon
pine bender
sinis
hero completed 12 quests
Heracles
helper was saved from a seaserpent by perseus
andromeda
hero was raised in the wild by a bear than by hunters
Atalanta
hero could not look at her spouse
psyche
part goat, part snake and part lion
chimera
hunt for the calydonian boar with atalanta
meleager
hero killed medusa
perseus
bride of ares
otera
the hero that outwitted the sphinx
oedipus
the hero would marry a beast that even the gods would fear
pysche
one of the nine creators who inspired every form of art
muse
female nature sprit
nymphs
bridle from athena to help him become a hero
bellerophone
this woman aided thesus in his quest
araidne
half man - half bull creator
minotaur
the stretcher forced people to lay on a bed and would cut off any extra
procurstes
this hero abandoned a girl on an island
theseus
three snake heads
gorgon
half man- half goat creature
satyr
half bird half woman
harpy
half horse half man
centar
head of a woman, body of a lion and wings of an eagle
sphinx
a dude with a bigturtle
sciron
three-headed hound of hades
ceberus
controlled the life and death of mortals
the fates
poisoned theseus
medea
grant his son any request
helios
hera drove this person mad
heracles
What did the gods swear by?
river of styx
what did Athena and her husband turn into
lions
why did king Agegues commit sucide (father of theseus)
he believed his son died
who helped trick atalanta (loose foot race)
Aphrodite
who killed the king of thebeus?
oedipus
who is tiresias
a blind prophet
who is an anti-hero
Bellerophone
one of the three creature that tourment other creatures
the furries
who killed melegar
his mom
why did hearcles have 2 addtional labors
he was assisted for 2 of them
pysches husband
eros
what was the answer to the sphinx’s riddle
man
who was the inventor
dadelaus
What did atalanta do?
she was a key contributor to the Calydonian boar hunt
What did belleraphone do?
battled and killed the chimera on pegasus
What was psyches impossible tasks
separating different grains from one another, shearing shining gold fleeces from the backs of violent rams, and collecting the black water from the River Styx.
what did oedipus do
he killed his father and married his mother
What did perseus do
he slayed medusa and rescued princess andromeda
What did theseus do?
he slayed the minotaur
what did Otera do
she was the founder of the Amozons
what was eros
he is cupid or the husband of psyche
What were the furies
they were the greek goddesses of vengence
who was Dedalus
he was a skillful architect and he is known for creating the labyrinth for king Minos.
