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What are 3 reasons we tell myths    
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What is the most commom theme in creation myths    
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  Aphrodite  
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  Apollo  
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  Ares  
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  Athena  
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  Demeter  
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  Dionysus  
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  Eros  
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  Hades  
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  Hera  
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  Hercules  
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  Hermes  
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  Persephone  
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  Poseidon  
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  Zeus  
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  Centaur  
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  Cerberus  
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  Cyclops  
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  Gorgon  
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  Medusa  
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  Hydra  
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  Minotaur  
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  Nymph  
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  Oracle  
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  Pegasus  
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  Phoenix  
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  Titans  
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  Pegasus and Bellerophon  
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  Daedalus and Icarus  
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  Pyramus and Thisbe  
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  Jason and the Golden Fleece  
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  Theseus and the Minotaur  
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  Perseus  
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  Atlanta  
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  Philemon and Baucis  
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According to Greek mythology, who are the parents of the Cyclops and Titans    
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What does Prometheus give humans    
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Where do Greek gods live    
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How are the Greek gods like humans? Different?    
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Why are Roman myths just like Greek myths    
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What is a "Pandora's box"    
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  Imagination, to trace the path from civilized Man To man super close to Nature, and Lead us back to the time when the world was young and people were connected to Earth  
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  Represent reality and The Human Condition  
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The god of love and beauty    
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The god of Sun, music, poetry, and Medicine    
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The God of War    
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the god of wisdom, war, and weaving    
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goddess of corn, grain, and the harvest    
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god of wine, agriculture, and fertility of nature    
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god of love    
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The god of the underworld    
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Queen of the gods and wife of Zeus    
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God of strength    
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Messenger God; god of Commerce, Travelers and thieves    
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Queen of the underworld and was once the goddess of spring    
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God of the sea, horses, and earthquakes    
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King of the Gods, and ruler of mankind    
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Half-man, half horse    
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three-headed dog    
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one eye on the middle of its forehead    
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three Earth dwellers that are Dragon like    
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She has snakes for hair    
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9 heads and lives in a swamp    
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half goat, half human    
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spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.    
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prophecy, knows everything    
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a winged horse    
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half eagle half pheasant    
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Giants that were very strong    
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Want to become a God but winged horse threw him off    
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build Labyrinth and then is imprisoned in it himself with son    
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story of Two Lovers who can't be together and take their own lives    
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goes on a long quest with Argonauts    
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volunteers to fight Minotaur to stop sacrificing his people to it    
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slays Medusa    
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virgin Huntress distracted by golden apples by her suitors    
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old couple who show Hospitality to gods and grow as one tree    
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  Uranus and Gaea  
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  fire  
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  Olympus  
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  Greek guys are like humans because of Temptations, Greek gods are different from humans because they are immortal  
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  they're the same because it is same stories but different names  
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  Temptation with unknown consequences  
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What is a "Herculean task"   Task that seems impossible  
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why did Hercules have to perform the 12 labors   To pay the price for killing his family  
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What are 3 reasons Hercules is the ggreatest Greek god   great strength, character of extremes, and represents Good and Evil  
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According to Myth, what two things does Hercules create   Milky way and Olympic gamea  
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What is an epic   a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.  
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What are the four characteristics of an epic hero   Superhuman strength, confidence and craftiness, helped or harmed by interfering jobs, and by his ideals and values comma and emerges Victorious in perilous situations  
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What is an epic plot   A long complicated Journey  
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What is an epic setting   Fantastic or exotic lands and involves more than one nation  
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What are common archetypes   Temperatures, Trickster, Destroyer, Transgressor, and Hero  
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What are common epic themes   Courage, homecoming, royalty, fate of a Nation, Beauty and life and death  
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What are the two causes of the Trojan War   The kidnapping of Helen and The quarrel between Athena, Helen, And Aphrodite  
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What are the characteristics of an epic plot   Strange creatures, large-scale events, divine intervention, and treacherous weather  
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Who is King Menelaus and who is King Priam   Menelaus was a king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy. Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon.  
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Who is the face that launched a thousand ships   Helen  
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Who kills Hector, what does he do with Hector's body   Achilles, he put them on a girdle attached to his chariot and drag them around Troy  
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Who turns the tide in Trojan War in favor of the Greeks   Hera  
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who does Paris killer piercing his heel, what term do we get from this incident   Achilles, Achilles tendon or heel  
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How did the Greeks get inside the Trojan walls, who comes up with this plan   They get inside through a trojan horse that is a "Gift", Odysseus comes up with this plan  
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Where is Odysseus's Homeland, who is he trying to get home to   Odysseus Homeland is Ithaca, he is trying to get home to his wife Penelope and son telemachus  
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the Lotus Eaters   some of Odysseus's men a Lotus nectar which made them forget the desire to get home  
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the Cyclops   Cyclops trap Odysseus and his men but Odysseus tricked him and so they all escaped  
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the sirens   Odysseus puts wax in the ears of his crew and Odysseus has his true time up so that the sirens song doesn't lead them to their deaths  
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Scylla and Charybdis   Scylla wants to take six of Odysseus men and Charybdis wants to take Odysseus whole crew and ship  
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What is Penelope's dilemma   The Dilemma is trying to decide if it really is Odysseus  
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What lesson does Odysseus's journey home and a Trojan War teach about the importance of the Gods   Without the gods he would not have gotten home and the war would not have been over to the gods are important and they lead us through life  
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How long is the Trojan War, how long is Odysseus's journey home   The Trojan War is 10 years long and Odysseus's journey home is also 10 years long  
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What does form refer to   The poems structure  
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What are the characteristics of traditional Form   Follows fixed rules, and has raised the Rhythm and rhyme patterns. Some examples are epic, old, Ballard, Sonic, haiku, and limerick  
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What are the characteristics of organic form   Doesn't follow rules for form, doesn't have regular rhythm and often has no room, and may use unconventional spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Examples of free verse and concrete poetry  
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What are sound devices   Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, and Rhyme  
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What is meter   a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem  
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what is a rhyme scheme   A pattern of end rhyme in a poem  
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What is scansion   The notation of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry  
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What is alliteration   The repetition of consonant sounds in words, always in front  
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what is the difference between assonance and consonance   assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and consonance Is the repetition of consonant sounds  
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what is diction   word choice  
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what is imagery   Evokes sensory experiences for readers by appealing to the five senses  
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What is the difference between literal and figurative language   literal is what it actually means and figurative is exaggerating it to make it seem worse or better or different than what it actually is  
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What are four examples of figurative language   simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole  
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what is a simile   a comparison between two unlike things contain the words like, as, or as if  
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What is a metaphor   a comparison between two unlike things without like or as  
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what is personification   a description of an object, an animal, place, or an idea in human terms  
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what is a hyperbole   an exaggeration for emphasis or humor  
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what is a Shakespearean sonnet   composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efefgg  
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What is an elegy, describe the tone and diction in an elegy   An extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects on death or on an equally serious subject  
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what are the characteristics of a concrete poem   it is a poem that creates the shape of a picture  
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what are the characteristics of an ode   it has complex lyrics poem, develop the series theme and might highly praised something  
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what are the characteristics of a ballad   a narrative poem that tells a story  
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what are the characteristics of a dramatic monologue   a lyric poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment of high intensity as if engaged in private conversation  
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in literature what is the meaning of style   the way a particular word is written, not what is said, but how it's said  
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what are four types of Style   Formal, informal, journalistic, and literary  
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What are the characteristics of a formal style   sophisticated language, complex sentences comma and rules of grammar  
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what are the characteristics of an informal style   everyday conversation, contractions and slang, and simple sentences and fragments  
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what are the characteristics of a journalistic style   Neutral words, simple sentences, and notices what said not who's talking  
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What are characteristics of a literary Style   imagery to convey mood, long elaborate sentences, and gets to know the narrator  
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what is voice in literature   the personality that comes across on the page  
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what three elements create voice in writing   word choice, sentence structure, and tone  
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What is tone   a writer's attitude toward a subject  
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what is a thesis statement, what is the best placement of a thesis statement   a thesis statement is a sentence that states a strong opinion and his best place in the last sentence of the introduction paragraph  
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How is an introductory paragraph developed   grab the reader's attention, said the name and author of the title of the short story, just a few lines give a brief account of the story, and include a thesis that states a strong opinion  
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What are topic sentences   these are sentences which states one of the topics associated with your thesis combined with some assertion about how the topic will support the central idea  
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what are the different types of textual support   summary, paraphrase, specific detail, and direct quotations  
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what is important to remember when using textual support   the correct an effective use of textual evidence is vital to the success of the literary analysis essay  
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What is the proper way to integrate direct quotes in an essay   carefully introduce and integrate it into your paper, put quotation marks around all briefly quoted material  
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what is the proper format for including lengthy quotes   It should be separated from the text, should be double spaced and indented ten spaces from the left margin with the right margin the same as the rest of your paper  
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How are quotes correctly cited   Place the page number or line number in parentheses right outside the quotations  
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what verb tense should be used when writing about literature   present tense  
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what are the rules for punctuating quoted material   If it is part of your sentence Place periods and commas instead of the quotations, When you need to include reference put the, or. Inside the quotation, If it is part of your own material Place question marks outside of the quotation marks  
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What is the proper format for quoting poetry   more than three lines of poetry should be double-spaced and centered on the page  
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What is the correct format for referring to short stories, poems and novels   When referring to short stories, problems, and essays they should be placed in quotation marks and when you're very into novels plays films and TV shows they should be underlined or italicized  
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how should transitional words be used   they should be linking all of the paragraph of the essay  
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how should a conclusion paragraph be developed   it should be a sense of closure with repeating / rephrasing the thesis Sentence  
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what is a synonym and an antonym   Synonym- word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language,Antonym-a word opposite in meaning to another  
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What is the difference between denotation and connotation   The denotation is the literal meaning of the word and the connotation is how you feel the words should be ment  
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being separated from your own familiar world   Separation  
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invite Heroes into an adventure offered an opportunity to face the unknown and gain something a physical or spiritual value   the call  
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someone who protects the Hero by keeping heroes from taking journey before the hero is ready   Threshold Guardian  
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a God who keeps you focused on his or her goal and gives his or her stability a psychological foundation for when the danger is greatest   A mentor  
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they usually appear at a critical point in the story   Helpers  
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When the Journey Begins   Initiation  
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The greatest challenge of the Journey   The abyss  
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The dramatic change in the way one thinks or views life   Revelation  
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when you are brought back to Everyday Life   The Returned  
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