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Language final 2
Semester 2 final
Question | Answer |
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Alcinous | king of the phaeacinas and person to whom odyssueus relates his story |
Calypso | immortal sea nymph who holds odysseus captive for years |
Charybdis | dangerous whirpool personified as a female monster |
Circe | enchantress who lives on the island of Aeaea |
Cyclopes | race with one eye |
Eurylochus | odysseus crew |
Polyphemus | Cyclops and son of Poseidon |
Loutus Eaters | inhabitants of a land visited by odysseus and crew |
Scylla | six headed female sea monster |
Sirens | sea nymph who sing songs to lure men to their death |
Teiresias | blind prophet from the underworld |
Antinous | rudest of Penelope’s suitors |
Eumaeus | odysseus loyal swineherd |
Eurycleia | odysseus faithful old nurse |
Penolope | odysseus wife |
Telemachus | odysseus/ penolope son |
Apollo | god of sunlight, music, poetry, medicine, law, tending flows |
Athena | daughter of zeus and goddness of wisdom, skills and warfare who helps heros |
Heliols | god of sun, another name for Apollo |
Poseidon | god of the seas and earthquake |
Zeus | king of the gods |
Similie | a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike things |
Symbol | any person, animal, place, object or event that exist on a literal level within work but also on figurative level |
Metaphor | a figurative of speech that make comparasion between 2 unlike things |
Onomatopoeia | use of word or phrase that imitates or suggest the sound of what it describes |
Rhyme | repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succedding sounds in 2 or more words |
Alliteration | repition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginning of the word |
Assonance | repetition of same or similar vowel sound within non-rhyming words |
Personification | animal, object, a force of nature idea given human characteristic |
Chronological | relates to time. Ex. After, before during, first, second, third |
Spatial | rlating to space. Ex. In front of, behind, next |
Order of importance | ranking. Ex. Better, best, worst |
Compare/contrast | looking at 2 different things, similar/diff. Ex. Similar, same, equal |
Declarative sentence | full sentence and statement |
Interrogative | full sentence asking a question |
Run on sentence | lacks punctuation |
Fragment | incomplete sentence |