The Odyssey
Name 3 of Penelope’s biggest suitors?
Who were Antinous, Amphinimous, Eurymachus, and or Eumeaus?
Who were Janie’s 3 husbands?
Who are Jody, Logan and Tea Cake?
What is the name of the person who tried to help Juliet reunite with Romeo after he was banished?
Who is Friar Lawrence?
Who is the speaker and what is the context? “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name. / Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
Who is Juliet, on the balcony in Act 2 Scene 2 when she is crying about why Romeo is a Montague?
What is the name of a comparison using like or as?
What is a simile?
Who made the decision to eat the Sun God’s Cattle?
Who was Eurylochus?
What does the pear-tree symbolize?
What is the coming of age of Janie?
Who was the person who Romeo “loved” before Juliet? Why did they decide not to stay together?
Who is Rosaline, and what is becoming a nun?
Who is the person speaking, and in what context? “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!”
Who is the Narrator, and what is explaining Janie's experience with the pear tree?
What literary device is this? "The mountain was staring down on our encampment menacingly."
What is personification?
Where did the story begin in terms of time?
What is in Medias Res?
What does the action of Janie removing her handkerchief symbolize?
What is new freedom from her past relationship?
What is the religious theme that Shakespeare alludes to throughout the play?
What is the pilgrim and the saint conceit?
Who is speaking and what is the context? "Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."
Who is the narrator and what are the first few lines in the book?
What literary device is this? "There were 200,000 questions on that exam!"
What is hyperbole?
Who was the first person Odysseus met during his time speaking with the spirits, and what did they speak about?
Who was Anticlea?
What was Janie forced to do with Tea Cake after the flood?
What was being forced to fill the graves with people?
Why did the Apothecary agree to give Romeo his deadly poison?
What is the effect of poverty on the decision-making skills of the apothecary?
Who is speaking and what is the context? "No finer, greater gift than that… when man and woman possess their home, two minds two hearts that work as one What happened when Odysseus wished Nausicaa a nice marriage"
Who is Odysseus and what is wishing Nausicaa a nice marriage?
What literary device is this: "Your Shakespearean idea of a perfect relationship is far from your reality"
What is an allusion?
What was the 14th word of page 252 of the Odyssey?
What is askew? (Question courtesy of Brooks)
When did Zora Neale Hurston write this novel?
1936/1937
How much time does this story take place over?
What is 4 days?
Crowds of vagabonds/Frame their lies so tightly none can test them. But you,/What grace you give your words, and what good sense within!/You have told your story with all a singer’s skill.
What happened when Odysseus told his story to King Alcinous for a passage home?
What literary device is this? “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” (3.2, 76)
What is an oxymoron?