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Section 1
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A term describing a boredom that arises from having too much knowledge or having experienced too much
Ennui
Which of the following terms is synonymous with "reversal" and refers to the moment a tragic hero suffers a reversal of fortune?
Peripeteia
Which of the following literary devices develop the theme of knowledge and ignorance in Oedipus?
Light and Dark imagery
"I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss" (Mac. I. vii. 32-34).
Metaphor
Which of the following authors is famous for developing the form of the Italian Sonnet?
Francisco Petrarch
A model that helps chart the plot of a story
Freytag Pyramid
Which of the following poetic meters best reflects the rhythm of the English language and was heavily used by Shakespeare?
Iambic pentameter
The following excerpt is an example of which of the following types of irony? OEDIPUS: "Since I am now the holder of his [Laius] office And have his bed and wife that once was his, And had his line not been unfortunate We would have common children (Sophocles 273-276).
Dramatic Irony
"Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell" (Mac. I. v. 48-52).
Apostrophe
A short poem expressing the innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires of a single speaker?
Lyric
The idea that terrible or desolate images contain a hint of beauty
Romantic Melancholy
The moral crisis created by a clash between scientific progress and faith was most prominent in which of the following literary periods?
Victorian Period
Which of the following beasts ravaged Thebes as part human, part lion?
The Sphinx
Ancient Greek plays adhere to what three rules?
Unity of time Unity of action Unity of place
The idea that boys secretly desire to eliminate their father and sleep with their mother
Oedipus Complex
A form of irony in which a discrepancy exists between what an audience knows and what a character says.
Dramatic Irony
Which of the following Victorian authors is famous for developing the dramatic monologue?
Robert Browning
Which of the following authors is famous for developing the form of the English Sonnet?
William Shakespeare
A so-called science in Poe's day that studied how facial features determined a person's personality/character.
Physiognomy
Greek dramatists would write in which of the following poetic meters?
Iambic trimeter
Ancient Greeks believed that seers (like the fictional Teiresias in Oedipus) could see the future by studying what?
The flight pattern of birds
A style of writing in which the author objectively observes how social and economic factors shape characters' behaviors, motivations, values, and beliefs.
Naturalism
In which of the following practices did Greek parents participate to do away with deformed or undesired infants?
Exposure
Which of the following tragedies is part of the Theban cycle and attributed to Sophocles?
Antigone
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds (Mac. IV. iii 39-40).
Personification
The Greeks slowly began to have doubts about the existence of the Olympic gods in Sophocles' time. What time was that?
5th century B.C.
An adjective or descriptive phrase that is usually used as a title that conveys some characteristic of the title-bearer
Epithet
A French word that means "unknotting, unraveling" and that refers to the resolution of a story.
Denouement
Answer the riddle of the sphinx: What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?
Man
A psychological defense mechanism that attributes negative qualities onto another person
Projection
Which of the following poets is famous for composing works centered on themes of pothos and is considered The tenth Muse?
Sappho
Which of the following authors was famous for his Olympic odes in the 5th century B.C.?
Pindar
A form of irony in which a discrepancy exists between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
Situational Irony
Pallas Athena
Epithet
Which of the following tragedians was Sophocles' peers?
Euripides & Aeschylus
A style of writing in which an author centers the events, characters, and dialect of a story around a central location
Regionalism
A multi-faceted character who is complex and often contradictory.
Round Character
A narrative that features a system of people, settings, and things whose names contain double-meanings.
Allegory
In psychological theory, a part of the psyche that exhibits chaos and inhibition
ID
Which of the following terms is synonymous with "recognition" and refers to the moment in a play when the hero's ignorance gives way to knowledge?
Anagnorsis
Let me borrow thy steel
Metonymy
Poe's idea that humans tend to engage in self-destructive behavior
Theory of the Perverse
"Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art" (Mac. I. ii. 7-9).
Simile
Which of the following heroes is credited with founding Thebes?
Cadmus
A metrical foot consisting of a soft syllable followed by a strong one.
Iamb
Which of the following philosopher argued that "Man is the measure of all things" in Sophocles' time?
Protagoras
Which of the following Victorian authors is famous for writing a collection of elegies titled In Memoriam about his brother in law after he passed away?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Aristotle believed that a tragic hero's downfall was attributed to his or her tragic flaw or....?
Hamartia
Aristotle believed that the audience of a tragedy would experience a purgation of the emotions pity and fear. What did he call this expeience?
Katharsis
What was the role of Greek theater?
Moral and political education of the community
Section 2
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