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What are the major themes of Lord of the Flies?
It's "An attempt to trace the defects of society back to defects of human nature." -Golding
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Who wrote the Lord of the Flies?
William Golding
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What is the symbolism of the Conch?
Law and order
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What is the symbolism of the Lord of the Flies?
The boys losing it
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What is the symbolism of the Signal fire?
Hope
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What is the symbolism of Ralph?
Democracy
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What is the symbolism of Jack
Authoritanian man
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What is the symbolism of Piggy
Intelligence and thought
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What is the symbolism of Simon?
Jesus or a saint
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What is POV?
Point of view; i.e. first person, thrid person omnisent, thrid person
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What is Denotative?
Strict dictionary definition of the word
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What is connotative?
Emotional or infered definition
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What are the three phases of the Hero cycle?
- 1. Departure
- 2. Initiation
- 3. Return
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Define Monomyth
The monomyth is the cyclical journey undertaken by the standard mythological hero as described by Joseph Campbell. The core concept of the monomyth is: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men."
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Myth
Stories explaining objects or events in the natural world as resulting from the action of some supernatural force of entity, most often a god.
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Paradox
- Idea that combines two opposites
- Ex. Promethus is both a hero and a villian, because he brings us fire and a lot of plagues.
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Hero
- The main charcter in a story who plays the leading role in the hero cycle:
- Self sacrificing, questioning, trials, fault, (hamartia), death, saves.
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Elements of creation story
- Regarded as the truth
- Explains why humans are on Earth
- Always supreme beings
- Defines relationship to gods and what proper behvaior is.
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Psyche
- Goddess of the soul
- So pretty Aphrodite was jealous and sent Cupid to make her fall in love with a bad man
- Fell in love with Cupid instead
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Aphrodite
- Evil and vain goddess of love
- Mother of Cupid
- Tries to get rid of her sons love by putting her through trials
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Eros (cupid)
- God of love
- Falls for Psyche
- Forgives her when she crosses him
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Epic Poem
Long poem about a hero
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Epic Hero
the hero in an epic poem
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Point of View
First person and thrid person omnipisent
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Arete
- Excellence and greatness
- Virtue
- Honor
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Homeric Simile
- Extended simile, many lines long
- Takes form of "As when____, so does____"
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In medias res
In the middle of things
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Anthropos polytropos
Man of many ways or man of many tricks
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Epithet
- any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or
- attributed quality
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Aeaea
Island where Circe lives
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Agamemnon
King, leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war, Helen's husband
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Alcinous
- n. Greek Mythology A king of Phaeacia, father of Nausicaa,
- who entertained Odysseus.
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Antinous
Head of the Suitors who dies first
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Athena
Zeus' daughter, goddess of war who helps Odysseus
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Calypso
Nymph who keeps Odysseus for a while
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Charybdis
Whirlpool by Scylla
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Circe
a goddess living on the fabulous island of Aeaea. Her magical powers turned Odysseus' men into swine
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Eumaneus
Faithful swine herd
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Eurycleia
Odyssues's old nurse/ Penelope's servant
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Helen
The woman who was promised to Paris who starts the whole war
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Helios
The sun god whose cattle Odysseus' men kill
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hubris
Excessive in pride or arrogance
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Ithaca
The land where Odysseus is trying to get back to
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Lotus
- Caused anyone to eat the flower or seeds to forget who he was, and their only
- interest was to eat more of the plants
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Lotus Eater
People who had eaten the lotus
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Mentor
The perosn Athena disguises herself as
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Moly/molu
A magical herb given to Odyssues by Hermes to protect him from Circe's magic
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Muses
The Nine Muses were Greek goddesses who ruled over the arts and sciences and offered inspiration in those subjects. They were the daughters of Zeus, lord of all gods, and Mnemosyne, who represented memory
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Nestor
is trying to give answers to Telemachus questions about his father's death (or disappearance), he also tells him the true events that happened in Troy.Agamemnon's death, all the Greeks that returned home after the war was over, but he has no answer about his father.
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Nobody/noman
The fake name Odysseus uses to trick Polyphemus
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Odysseus
The god-like hero of the story
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Ogyia
Island where Calypso lives
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Phaecians
The inhabitants of the land of Scheria.
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Polyphemus
Cyclopes that traps the men and then gets his eye blinded by Odysseus
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Scylla
Six headed monster that eats 6 of Odysseus' men
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Poseidon
God of the sea whose fucking pissed off at Odysseus
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Sirens
Monsters whose singing lures away men
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Tiresias
- The most famous of all Greek seers. The legend was that in compensation for his
- blindness the gods had given him his awesome visionary powers. His spirit is
- consulted by Odysseus in Hades
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Troy
The place where the Helen of Troy battle was fought
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Formula for Literary Analysis Paragraph
- Topic sentence must include:
- 1. Title
- 2. Author
- 3. Literary device
- 4. Author's purpose
- Incorporated, documented textual proof (Quotation)
- Explanation of author's purpose (why or how the author uses this literary device, NOT what is the definition of the literary device)
- Conclusion- relate author's purpose to a major theme in the work.
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