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Honors English 9B
Semester 2 Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fragment | Fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself |
| Transitions | Connection between two parts of a piece of writing |
| Tone | General attitude of a story |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters don't |
| Assonance | Similar vowel sounds within words |
| Blank Verse | Rhythmic lines, no end rhyme |
| 3 Reasons We Tell Myths | Entertainment, knowledge of ourselves, how world came to be |
| The Flood | Most common theme in creation myths |
| Goddess of Love | Aphrodite |
| God of the Sun | Apollo |
| God of War | Ares |
| Goddess of Wisdom | Athena |
| Goddess of the Hearth | Demeter |
| God of Wine | Dionysus |
| Another name for Eros | Cupid |
| God of Death/Underworld | Hades |
| Goddess of Marriage | Hera |
| God of Strength | Hercules |
| Messenger of the Gods | Hermes |
| Goddess of Plants/Nature | Persephone |
| God of the Sea | Poseidon |
| Ruler of Olympus | Zeus |
| Centaur | Half man, half horse |
| Cerberus | 3 headed dog |
| Cyclopes | 1 eyed man |
| Gorgon | 3 sisters with snakes for hair |
| Medusa | When one snakes head is cut off, two grow back |
| Hydra | 9 headed serpent |
| Minotaur | Head of bull, body of man |
| Nymph | Divine spirit of nature |
| Oracle | Fortune teller |
| Pegasus | Winged horse |
| Phoenix | Bird born from ashes |
| Titans | Ancient giants |
| Pegasus and Bellerophon | Wanted to become a God, but winged horse threw him off |
| Daedalus and Icarus | Builds labyrinth, and then is imprisoned in it himself with son |
| Pyramus and Thisbe | Two lovers who can't be together and take their own lives |
| Jason and the Golden Fleece | Goes on a long quest with the Argonauts |
| Theseus and the Minotaur | Volunteers to fight the Minotaur to stop sacrificing his people to it |
| Perseus | Slays Medusa |
| Atlanta | Virgin huntress, distracted by golden apples by her suitors |