Journey
Plot
Characters
Vocab
Literary Devices
100
The place where Odysseus was born
Ithaca
100
What are traits of the race of the Cyclopes? (other an how they look)
Live in solitude/have no laws & they are not hospitable
100
Turned Odysseus' men into pigs
Circe
100
to take goods by force
plundered
100
A literary device that gives a hint of what will happen in the future
foreshadow
200
On the island of Ismarus, what happens to Odysseus and his men?
They are attacked because they had a feast and drank too much.
200
How many years is Odysseus away from home?
20 years
200
Dead companion of Odysseus that has a request for him
Elpenor
200
calm; pacify
assuage
200

Name the literary device: “Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion.”

simile
300
Where did men of Odysseus eat a flower that made them want to stay there forever?
Land of the Lotus Eaters
300
All but one of Odysseus' ships are destroyed by whom?
Poseidon
300
Singing sea-nymphs who lure sailors to kill them
Sirens
300
passion; enthusiasm
ardor
300
A literary device that gives inanimate objects human-like characteristics
personification
400
Where Tiresias warned Odysseus not to eat the sacred cattle
Land of the Dead
400
Who all survives at the end of Part 1?
Odysseus
400
God of the underworld
Hades
400
characterized by craftiness or betrayal
insidious
400
figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
metaphor
500
Where Odysseus tells his story to King Alcinous
Phaecia
500
Where did Odysseus outsmart Polyphemus?
Cyclopes Land
500
Odysseus is telling his story to him
Alcinous
500
brief, violent storm
squall
500

Name the literary device: “But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew.”

foreshadow
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