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| a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions |
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| the main character in fiction, drama, or narrative poetry |
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| the character or force that blocks the antagonist |
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| in Greek poetry and drama, the body of actors whose choric performance comments upon and accompanies the action of the play |
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| a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
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| in a literary work, a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using the connective words like, as, than, or resembles. you are using a metaphor if you say you're 'at the end of your rope' or describe two political condidates as 'running neck and neck'. |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself or for something beyond itself |
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| an author's attitude towards the subject matter and also towards the audience. it can help to thing of the tone of an actual speaking voice when trying to think of words to describe tone |
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| introduces the characters, setting, and usually, the story's major conflict. cna be done in defferent ways, including narrative, memories, flashbacks, dreams, asides or admissions by a character |
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| in a performer's speech indicating such things as how something is said and what a setting looks like |
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| a lack of certainty on the part of a concerned reader, about what is going to happen, especially to characters with whom the reader has established a bond of sympathy |
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| a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding |
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| a contrast or discrepency between expectation and reality - between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true |
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| achieved their status based on a combination of interrelated factors, including conduct, wealth and birth |
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| being hospitable to guest who observed rules of proper conduct was a "morally binding" responsibility that could be transferred from one generation to another and "had to be respected even in the heat of battle". |
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| women's roles in the Archaic Age |
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| domestic duties, including child-rearing, food, weaving, financial accounts, supervising domestic workers, nursing |
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| the division of philosophy that inverstigates the nature and origin of knowledge |
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| a view that says that "claims to objective truth and knowledge... are in fact only valid relative to a set of cultural attitudes, or to some other subjective way of perceiving the world.. and inconsistent claims may have.. 'equal validity'. the theory that truth is an ethical relative to the individual or group that holds it |
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| a pre-Socratic school of philosophy in sncient Greece that taught that 'man is the measure of all things' |
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| a recent 'influential form of relativism', that states that 'a fact is socially constructed if and only if it is necessarily true that it could only have obtained throught the contingent actions of a social group. |
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| the function of augury was not to reveal the future but to tell whether or not a proposed course of action had the approval of the gods |
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| prediction of the future by supernatural means |
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| Aristotle thought that well-written plays should concentrate on a single action, the tragic hero should fall from greatness... because of an error |
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| highest mountain in Greece.. in Greek myth it was believed to be where the twelve Olympian gods had their houses, built for them by the god Hephaestus, with Zeus' house occupying the summit |
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| libidnal feelings in a child, especially a male child, for the parent of the oppostie sex, usually accompanied by hostility to the parent of the same sex and generally manifesting itself first between ages three and five |
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| a mysterious force or power above and beyound the control of Zeus which the ancient Greeks saw as ruling and shaping human affairs. |
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| a member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civiliztion. originally from a foreign country with foreign speech |
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