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Mrs. Hawkins - 10th Grade Literature
Test 9 (Units 9-12)
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Literature
10th Grade
03/04/2013

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The blind poet who wrote the Iliad
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Homer
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Wrote Antigone
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Sophocles
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Was Plato's teacher
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Socrates
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Stole Gilgamesh's plant that restored youth
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a serpent
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Buried her brother's body
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Antigone
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Was a friend of Socrates
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Crito
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Was the "woman of the vine"
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Siduri
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Was the sister of Antigone
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Ismene
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Was a heroic Trojan warrior
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Hector
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Was a heroic Greek warrior
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Achilles
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Was the wife of Odysseus
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Penelope
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Was the brother of Ismene and Antigone
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Polyneices (Antigone buried him) and Etocles
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Mourned Enkidu
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Gilgamesh
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Was engaged to Antigone
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Haemon
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Was the son of Odysseus
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Telemachus
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Was the Sumerian "Noah" figure
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Utnapishtam
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Was the king of Troy
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Priam
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Was the king of Thebes
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Creon
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Died from drinking poison
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Socrates
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Wrote Lives
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Plutarch
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Wrote The Republic
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Plato (He was Aristotle's teacher.)
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Odysseus's dog
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Argos
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Orchestra
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stage of a Greek theater
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fable
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brief, simple anecdote designed to teach a moral
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rising action
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follows the exposition in the dramatic structure of a Greek drama
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Inciting force
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interrupts a static situation in a drama and causes the rising action
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tragic flaw
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weakness or defect which helps bring about a hero's downfall
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elegy
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short poem written in pairs of unrhymed lines, often on themes of war, love, or death
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solilophy
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a speech by one character alone on stage
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aside
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a comment made to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to have heard
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catastrophe
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climax of a tragedy
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denouement
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climax of comedy
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dialogue
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speech/conversation between two or more characters
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Mars Hill was in...
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Athens
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