Ch. 8 Vocabulary

a traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people or something in the natural world

• ritual

• myth

• fable

• drama

words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony

• drama

• rhetoric

• oracle

• ritual

a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess

• oracle

• sophist

• myth

• cavalry

a story meant to teach a lesson

• myth

• fable

• rhetoric

• Hippocratic Oath

a story written in the form of a play

• stoicism

• drama

• myth

• fable

a play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems

• circumference

• tragedy

• comedy

• Socratic Method

play or film that tells a humorous story

• plane geometry

• tragedy

• solid geometry

• comedy

Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking

• circumference

• sophist

• rhetoric

• stoicism

the art of public speaking and debate

• Hippocratic Oath

• rhetoric

• stoicism

• Socratic Method

philosophical method of questioning to gain truth

• solid geometry

• plane geometry

• Hippocratic Oath

• Socratic Method