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Why is Romeo melancholy before meeting Juliet?
His love, rosaline , doesn’t love him back
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What is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
The first 5 books of the bible
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What is the tempest by Gorgoni?
Focuses on a woman who has a troublesome look on her face. She is nursing an infant and a clothes soldier is looking at her. This painting title means the storm is coming. The storm is in the woman’s eyes.
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What word means easily affected?
Susceptible
Antonym: resistant |
Who is Calypso?
The immortal goddess who kept Odysseus for 7 years to be her lover on a island
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Why did Romeo kill tybalt?
Tybalt killed Mercutio
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What is initiation, separation, and return?
The three stages of the hero
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What is the message behind the Death of Socrates?
Death is not to be feared but welcomed
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What is false/lying?
Mendacious
Ety: (Latin) mendac meaning “lying” |
Who is Hades?
The god of the underworld
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What is a sonnet?
a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
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What is the difference between Gothic and Romanesque architecture?
One has rounded arches and the other has pointed arches
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What is women can’t be trusted. They are deceivers, they are tricksters?
The meaning of Samson and Delilah
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What is saying something awful/ugly in a nice way?
Euphemism
Ety: (Greek word) eu meaning “Good” phēmos, a Greek word for “speech.” |
What is a long poem, typically derived from oral tradition?
An epic
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What is an Oxymoron?
What literary device is this, “O brawling love. O loving hate?”
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What is sanguine, melancholy, choleric and phlegmatic?
The 4 humors
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What is beauty leads to truth?
The message of La Primavera
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What is expressing a low opinion, saying something unkind?
Derogatory
Syn: disparaging, belittling |
What is respect, loyalty and hospitality?
Three important Greek values we have observed in the Odyssey
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What is a rose?
Fill in the blank from Juliets speech to Romeo at the balcony. “That which we call _____ By any other word would smell as sweet.”
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What is a contest between the 3 most beautiful goddesses of Olympus; Aphrodite, Hera and Athena--for the prize of a golden apple addressed "To the Fairest?”
The judgment of Paris
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What are Plato and Aristotle arguing about in the center of the painting of the School of Athens?
What is the nature of reality?
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What is seeking favor?
Obsequious
Ety: (Latin word) sequi meaning “to follow.” Ob meaning “toward.” |
What is you have to be properly buried. A proper burial includes being cremated or buried with a coin called an obol which needed to be placed under your tongue. This would then be presented to Charon (the ferryman of the River Styx), as payment for the crossing of the river?
How to cross the River Styx
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