WL Unit 12

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Blind poet who lived more than seven hundred years before Christ

Homer

Homer´s two beautiful epic adventures

the Iliad and the Odyssey

“The Death of Hector” is from

the iliad

The word Iliad means

“the tale of Ilios” (Troy)

“Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements.

The Death of Hector

King of Troy and father of Hector

King Priam

a daughter of Zeus, goddess of arts and wisdom who supported the Greeks in the Trojan war

Athene

one of Hectors brothers, whom Athene disguised herself as

Deïphobus

The Return of Odysseus

Selection from

Homer; Odyssey

Odysseus disguised himself as

a beggar

Trojan war lasted

10 years

Odysseus was not home for

20 years

Odysseus was

a Greek King

Odysseus wife

Penelope

Odysseus son

Telemachus

Odysseus saught shelter with

Emaeus

any long or extended journey or adventure

odyssey

Odysseus dog

Argos

Homer and the Bible: How books mold nations

Francis Wayland

Theme of: The brevety of life

Not a moment of the brief life should be wasted

Vital spark of heavenly flame!

Quit, oh quit this mortal frame:

the dying christian to his soul

the dying christian to his soul

Alexander Pope

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Death be not proud

Theme of Elegy for Heraclitus

Death takes away almos everything, but memories and ideas. Those death cannot touch

brief anecdote told in a simple, direct style in prose or verse describing a single incident and designed to teach a moral, usually by using animals as characters

fable

where was Pauls sermon preached

Mars´hill, Athens Greece

form of literature in prose or poetry (or a combination of the two) which uses actors to portray a story´s characters, action, and dialogue.

drama

written instructions designed to aid in producing the play and helping the reader visualize the setting of scenes by giving details of time, place, scenery, props, and the entrances and exits of characters

stage directions

the conversation between two or more characters, or all the speeches of the play taken collectively

dialogue

a speech by one character alone on the stage

soliloquy

a comment made to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to have heard

aside

movements and speech of characters performing or “acting out” situations on the stage, but more than this, it involves the whole pattern of events telling the story

actions

persons who perform the action

characters

arrangement of events

plot

hero

protagonist

opponent

antagonist

dramatic structure of a five act play

exposition, rising action, climax or crisis, falling action, and catastrophe or denouement

something that interrupts a static situation often in the form of a new character

inciting force

drama has traditionally been divided into

tradegy and comedy

the greek theater was divided into:

auditorium, orchestra, and skene

where the audience sat

auditorium

acted as the stage

orchestra

for changing costumes and housing the scenery

skene

group of dancers and singers

chorus

___________;exceptional character, though not perfect, who undergoes a morally significant struggle which ends disastrously

He has a __________, a weakness or defect which along with fate helps bring about his downfall.

tragic hero, tragic flaw

gives the introductory background or exposition

prologue

choral entry ode, the song delivered as the chorus enters the orchestra

parados

after the parados follow

five episodes or scenes separated by choral odes

The odes are made up of three parts

strophe, antistrophe and epode