9R FINAL EXAM Review: Shakespeare/Drama & Odyssey/Poetry Terms

The audience/reader knows Juliet is not really dead, but Romeo does not.

A character delivers a speech to multiple characters

"O Death, where is thy sting?"

"Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field."

A comparison of two unlike things by NOT using "like" or "as"

When something happens contrary to what is expected

When the speaker addresses someone or something that cannot answer back

“…like a musician, like a harper, when with quiet hand upon his [Odysseus'] instrument..."

When a character says one thing but means another

“So with our brand we bored that great eye socket while blood ran out around the red hot bar."

The blind prophet Tiresias can see into the future; however, he cannot see.

A character speaks to another character on stage (while other characters do not hear)

When the audience/reader knows something the actors/characters do not

“We [Telemachus and Odysseus] cut down the flower of Ithaca,/ the mainstay of the town.”

A character delivers a speech while alone on stage to expose thoughts/feelings/plans

What epic simile does Homer use to convey the great lengths which Odysseus makes to get home?

Mercutio says, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun!"

Which character is the best foil for Romeo?

A grand (or epic) simile that runs for multiple lines

“...O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness..."

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

What simile does Homer use to fully capture the absence between Odysseus and his son?

A figure of speech; an extreme exaggeration that is not mean to be taken literally

A negative trait that leads to the downfall of the protagonist/hero

The Cyclops “dismembered them and made his meal,/ gaping and crunching like a mountain lion …”

the Cyclops "caught two in his hands like squirming puppies…”

“…Dawn spread out her fingertips of rose…”

Question: Why did the coffee file the police report? Answer: It got mugged.

A description in a poem that appeals to any of the five senses

“turning it the [spear] as a shipwright turns a drill/ in planking…”

“The gods have tried me [Odysseus] in a thousand ways.”

A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers sorrow

When a poet gives human characteristics to something that is not human

The tragic hero is...

Two contradictory words

Hubris means...

A character who highlights positive/negative traits in the protagonist