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Final exam
52
English
Undergraduate 2
12/16/2011

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Scheherazade
Definition
She is the story teller in thousand one nights
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Shahyar
Definition
the king that kills all the girls
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Jafar
Definition
is the father for the girl in thousand and one nights
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Shah Zaman or Samarcande 
Definition
bother of the king in thousand and one night
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Dante 
Definition
is the main character in dante
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Virgil
Definition
Dante's guide in hell, also the writer of the Aeneids 
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Beatrice 
Definition
dantes love that ask for dante to be guided by virgil as dante seaches for beatrice in hell
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haron
Definition

a figure that dante appropriates from greek mythology 

 

his also an old man who ferries souls across the rive of Acheron to hell

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Paolo and francesca de rimini
Definition
 A pair of lovers condemned to the Second Circle of Hell for an adulterous love affair that they began after reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere.
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Lucifer 
Definition

the prince of herll in the ninth and final circle of hell 

 

he has three heads and each one is chewing on a different traitor of history

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Minos
Definition

the king of create in Greek, 

 

Portrayed by dante as a giant beast who stand in the second circle of hell, judge of what circle to send the sinner

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Pope Boniface VIII
Definition
corrept pope in dante from 1294-1303
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satan
Definition
head of the rebellious in Paradise lost
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Adam 
Definition
The first human
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Eva
Definition
the first woman
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Beelzebub
Definition
Satan's second in command
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Belial
Definition
one of the principle devils in hell, in Paradise lost
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Gabriel
Definition

one of the archangels oh heaven 

, who acts as a guard at the garden og eden    

 

paradise lost               

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Raphael
Definition

An archangel that acts as gods messenger 

 

he tells adam about satans plan

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Hamlet
Definition
is the prince of denmark
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Claudius
Definition
Hamlet's stepdad/uncle and the person that kiled hamlet's father
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Gertrude 
Definition
The queen of denmark, hamlets mother 
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Polonius 
Definition

father of Leartes and Ophilia,

 

works for Claudius 

 

and is killed by Hamlet

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Horatio
Definition
Hamlet's friend from school and is the only one that is still alive to tell the tale of Hamlet
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Ophilia 
Definition

Polonius daughter 

 

Hamlets love but he doesnt tell her

 

Leartes' sister 

 

drowns her self in a river

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Leartes
Definition

Polonius son

 

Ophelias brother

 

agrees to duel hamlet.

 

is killed by the poisoned sword 

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Definition
Two slightly bumbling courtiers, former friends of Hamlet from Wittenberg, who are summoned by Claudius and Gertrude to discover the cause of Hamlet’s strange behavior.
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Don Quixote 
Definition

The novels tragic hero

 

tryies to do the right thing but usally fails due to that his mad

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Sancho Panza
Definition

The peasant laborer- 

 

Greedy but kind faithful and loyal

 

 

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Rocinante
Definition
Don Quixote's barn horse
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Dapple
Definition
Sanchos donkey 
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Dulcinea del Toboso
Definition
never appears as an actual character but she is Don quicote's ladylove
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Teresa Panza
Definition
Panchos wife in don quixote
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Cardenio
Definition
An honorable man who is driven mad by the infidelities of his wife, Lucinda, and the treachery of a duke, Ferdinand. Cardenio is the quintessential romantic lover.
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Lucinda
Definition
Cardenio’s wife. Silent and beautiful, Lucinda is a model of the courtly woman. Docile and innocent, she obliges her parents and her lover
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Ferdinand 
Definition
An arrogant young duke who steals Lucinda from Cardenio with no remorse.
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Heinrich Faust 
Definition
a scholar who sells his soul to the devil
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Mephistopheles
Definition
a devil that is in Faust 
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Gretchen
Definition

Faust's love 

 

also known as margerate

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Marthe
Definition

Gretchen's neighbour

 

faust

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Valentin
Definition

Gretchen's brother 

 

faust

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wagner
Definition
faust assistant 
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The underground man
Definition
the annonymous narrator, a depressed person that lives "in the underworld"
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Liza
Definition
a young prostitute that the underground man tried to help but ends up dissing him
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Simnov
Definition
a formal schoolmate of the underground man, the only one that the underground man is still friends with
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zverkov 
Definition
is a schoolmate of the underground man and is a succesfull well liked person
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ferfickin
Definition
another schoolmate of the underground man and the bitterest enemy 
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trudolyubov
Definition
another schoolmate of the underground man, is polite but still wants to does not like the underground man
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apollon
Definition
the underground mans servant 
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anton antonych setochkin
Definition
the head of underground's man department in the ministry
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Gregor Samsa
Definition

a salesman that turns into a giant bug 

 

metamorphosis

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Grete samsa
Definition
Gregors sister, that helps Gregor when he turned into a bug but then stops helping him 
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