Midterm 2014 Flashcards by Victoria Rivas

Hera

Roman Name: Juno
Symbol: Peacock
Realm: Goddess of Marriage and Childbirth

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Usually legendary narrative that presents part of the beliefs of a people or explains a practice or natural phenomenon

Myth

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Myth originated from where

Folk history around 400 B.C

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Zeus

Roman Name: Jupiter
Symbol: Thunderbolt
Realm: God of the Earth and Sky

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Poseidon

Roman Name: Neptune
Symbol: Trident
Realm: God of Sea and Horses

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Hades

Roman Name: Pluto
Symbol: Staff and Helmet
Realm: God of the Underworld

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Athena

Roman Name: Minerva
Symbol: Owl
Realm: Goddess of Wisdom, War, Craft

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Hephaestus

Roman Name: Vulan
Symbol: Iron and Fireplace
Realm: God of Fire

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Ares

Roman Name: Mars
Symbol: Weapon, armor, and vulture
Realm: God of War

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Apollo

Roman Name: Phobeus
Symbol: lyre, tree, dolphin
Realm: God of Music and Poetry

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Artemis

Roman Name: Diana
Symbol: bow and arrow and the moon
Realms: Goddess of Hunting and Moon. Protector of Children

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Hermes

Roman Name: Mercury
Symbol: Winged sandals and helmet
Realm: Messenger God

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Aphrodite

Roman Name: Venus
Symbol: Dove and Myrtle Tree
Realm: Goddess of Love and Sexual Desire

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Hestia

Roman Name: Vesta
Symbol: Torch and Houses
Realm: Goddess of Hearth, Guardian of Houses

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Shakespeare was born where and when?

Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564

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When did Shakespeare die?

1616

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Shakespeare lived during what period?

In the Renaissance, during the Elizabethan Era

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Shakespeare was so influential to that period in history that he has often been referred to as

“The Spirit of an Age” or “The Soul of an Age”

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Who was Shakespeare wife?

Anne Hathaway, who was 8 years older then him

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Shakespeare had how many children?

Three children. His only son, Hamnet died at the age of 11

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Shakespeare got this ideas for his plays from where?

Myths and Classic Literature

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Is believed to be responsible for contributing to Shakespeare’s legacy by compiling all this work into one folio after his death

Ben Johnson

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The original Globe Theater was located where?

Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames

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Shakespeare used the nickname _______ to refer to the Globe a Theater

Wooden O

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Was the structure behind the stage which held dressing rooms and storage areas

Tiring-house

In Shakespeare's day, female parts were played by who?

Men or young boys

Performance had to be held when? Why?

During the day because they had no electricity

The sign that a performance was to be held that was a what?

Flag

Shakespearean plays were divided into three categories

Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories

Globe Theater flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a comedy. Using this flag indicated that the play would be a light subject

White

Globe Theater flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a tragedy. Using this flag indicated that the play would be a dark subject, associated with death

Black

Globe Theater flags were used to advertise that the play that day would be a history. Using this flag indicated that the play would be a subject, associated with blood, as most plays based on history were

Red

Setting of Romeo and Juliet is where?

Mantua

Plot Pyramid Sequence

1. Exposition 2. Rising Action 3. Climax 4. Falling Action 5. Resolution

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closet connected words

Alliteration

A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something

Allusion

A person who is opposed to struggles against or competes with another; opponent

Antagonist

The method used by a writer to develop a character

Characterization

The turning point of the action in a plot of a play or story

Climax

An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work

Complication

A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one

Conflict

Associated or secondary meaning or expression in addition or its explicit or primary meaning

Connotation

The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of words or expression

Denotation

Variety of languages that is distinguished from other variates of the same language

Dialect

A conversation between characters in the novel

Dialogue

A style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

Diction

Any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional conflicting, or striking interest or results

Drama

Irony that is inherit of speeches or a situation of drama that is understood by the audience, but not the character

Dramatic irony

To magnify beyond the limit of truth

Exaggeration

A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

Exposition

Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, dramatic plot

External conflict

A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters

Fable

A unbelievable or untrue story

Fairytale

In the plot of a story or play the action following the climax of the work that moves it toward to the end

Falling Action

A light, humorous play in which depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather then development of the character

Farce

Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors

Figurative Language

An event or scene that takes place before the present time in which the narrative is inserted into chronological structure of work

Flashback

An easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but useful

Flat character

Two characters who having opposing quality

Foil

To show or indicated beforehand; prefigure

Foreshadowing

Poetry, short stories, or novels designed to thrill readers by providing mystery and blood

Gothic Literature

A women of distinguished courage or ability; admired for her brave acts and noble quality

Heroine

Obvious or intentional abbreviation

Hyperbole

The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses

Imagery

Physiological structure within the mind of a literary or dramatic character; the resolution of which creates plot suspense

Internal Conflict

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

Irony

A comparison between two different things without using "like" or "as"

Metaphor

Overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work

Mood

A story or accounts of events, experiences or like whether true or fictitious

Narratin

Is the logical sequence of events that develops a story

Plot

A preface or introductory part of disclose, poem, or novel

Prologue

The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work

Protagonist

The humors use of words or phase so as to emphasize of suggest its different meaning

Pun

Series of incidents in a literary plot that builds toward the point of greatest interest

Rising Action

A character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated

Round Character

A literary work in which human vice do folly is attacked through irony

Satire

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared and uses "like" and "as"

Simile

The act of talking while or as if alone

Soliloquy

Skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays

Stagecrafts

A particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character

Style

Something concrete, such as an object, action, character or scene that stands for something abstract such as a concept or idea

Symbol

The subject of disclosure, discussion, mediation, or composition; topic

Theme

Quality of character of sound

Tone

A literal work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end

Tragedy

Doesn't want to marry him so she turns into a tree

Apollo and Daphne

Two lovers talking through a crack

Pyramus and Thisbe

2 gods go traveling and a couple gives them shelter. The gods grant them a wish, they would die together and became a tree

Baucis and Philemon

Are birds

Crux and Halcyone

A goddess that protect a man she loves while he's sleeping

Diana and Endymion

Makes a deal with Hades to have his wife return to him. He turns around and loses his wife

Orpheus and Eurydice

Builds a sculpture and asks the gods to make her turn real

Pygmalion

A plot built around a dramatic mystery such as a disappearance, concealment of parentage, an unsolved crime or the miscarriage of an inheritance

Gothic Romance

In a gothic romance what is the atmosphere

It's alive with sense of danger and terror

This environment sustains the general air of mystery and fear. Usually, an ancient castle with forbidden corridors and chambers, smell of decay and lurking figure are present

Somber and Ominous

Is present to discipline the heroine

Villain

Rebecca's plot

Mystery-suspense

Rebecca: setting

1930-England

The primary quality of gothic literature is its emphasis on

Mystery, vice, darkness, death, the ominous

Action and plot predominate over characterization

Melodramatic mode

Is used to produce an effect of horror and mystery

Local color

Who is the Byronic Hero? Why?

Maxim, because he is charming, handsome appearance causes women to fall in love with him without realizing the hidden trouble of getting involved with such an individual

Are often haunted by the guilt of a secret act in their past

Hero-villain

Is symbolic to personality

Handwriting

Who is the Other in Rebecca

Ben because he is separated from the rest due to his mental retardation

What is Decay in Rebecca

Rebecca's body