helen on eighty sixth street – Flashcards

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personalities
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character traits
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narrator,has part of horse
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vita
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references to features of a culture
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allusion
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gets role of helen in play
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Helen McGuire
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most beautiful, married menelaus, king sparta, but paris fell in love and ran away with her, daughter or zeus and leda
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greek helen
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vitas moms boyfriend
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old farfel
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to be helen, for old farfel to leave, helens dad to come back
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vitas 3 wishes
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what helen mcguire gets bc of vitas wish
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chicken pox
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author
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wendi kaufman
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conveys the impression of; represents
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embodies
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A long journey
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odyssey
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repetitive prayer or recitation
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litany
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A chant, meant to produce a magical result
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incantation
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smothered
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stifled
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a beleif in many gods
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polythesium
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A defensive wall of a castle or walled city
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ramparts
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Humble plea or request
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supplication
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To pronounce or articulate
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enunciate
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cat named after christopher marlowe, an english dramatist
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marlowe
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humorous reference to sarah bernhardt, a french actres known for her emotional style
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sarah heartburn
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the parakeets named after english poet john keets
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keatses john and john
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in the odyssey, people who eat fruit of the lotus eaters, a sort of drug, which causes to forget forever their homes and families, greek soldier odysseus enters land of lotus eaters on way from trojan war
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lotus eaters
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in nyc, rent stabilization is a form of government - controlled regulation. rent- stabilized apartments are less expensive than other types and are therefore much sought after
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rents stabilized
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a chair is an important teaching position at a university
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chair in mom's department
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reference to lines in shakespeare's plays hamlet and macbeth
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well the play's....on the stage"
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oddysseus's old dog, only one to recognize oddyssues after 20 yrs
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argus
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last two lines on keat's poem "ode on a grecian urn"
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beauty is truth...know
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temple of athena, greek goddess of wisdom and warfare, who sided with the greeks during the war. built in 5th century bc
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parthenon
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here, a decorative chord
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lanyard
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Author
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Wendi Kaufman
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