| A | B |
|---|
| Aeolus | keeper of the winds |
| Ithaca | Odysseus' island kingdom |
| Lotus Eaters | Drugs make them forget responsibilities |
| Helios | sun god |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops blinded by Odysseus |
| Charybdis | whirlpool |
| Scylla | snatches sailors; dogs around waist |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom who helps Odysseus |
| Circe | Sorceress who could turn men into animals |
| Sirens | bird women whose songs were irresistible to sailors |
| Calypso | Nymph who loved Odysseus and kept her with him several years |
| Telemachus | Odysseus' son |
| Penelope | Odysseus' faithful wife |
| Sonnet | 14 line poem |
| Shakespearen sonnet | English sonnet |
| Miltonian sonnet | Italian sonnet |
| Iambic pentameter | Metrical scheme of a sonnet |
| Pilgrim sonnet | Spoken by Romeo and Juliet upon their first meeting |
| Friar Laurence | devises the plan of Juliet's pretended death |
| Mercutio | Queen Mab speech; "A plague o' both your houses!" |
| Hermes | Messenger god |
| Pyramus | Fell in love with Thisbe through a wall |
| Thisbe | mulberry berries changed to red after her blood stained them |
| Paris | Count who wished to marry Juliet |
| "I am fortune's fool!" | Romeo's line after Tybalt's death |
| "I defy you, stars!" | Romeo's line after her hears of Juliet's "death" |
| "All are punished." | Prince's commentary on the tragic results of the feud |
| "Sing in me, muse. . . " | Opening line of The Odyssey |
| Unweaves the garment every night | Penelope |
| Odysseus' strengths | cleverness, trickery |
| Eurydice | bitten by a snake on her wedding day |
| Orpheus | player of lyre, went to underworld to get his wife back |
| Daphne | was turned into a laurel tree |
