Vocabulary
To be truthful and honest.
What is candor?
Odysseus' home.
What is Ithaca?
Penelope establishes a contest using this.
What is Odysseus' bow?
Thunders as a sign he is on Odysseus' side.
Who is Zeus?
The first step in the writing process.
What is prewriting?
Graceful.
What is lithe?
Athena disguises Odysseus as this.
What is a beggar?
Strength, fury, anger, and power are some of Odysseus' traits represented by this archetypal animal.
What is a bull?
Turns Odysseus into a beggar for disguise.
Who is Athena?
What is the underlined word below called?
Lilly like basketball, and Jonah likes golf.
What is a conjunction?
A symbol or sign of misfortune.
What is omen?
Returns home and goes to the swineherd's home to hear news about his mother.
Who is Telemachus?
Odysseus' old dog that recognizes him by his voice.
Who is Argos?
Creates the contest of bending, stringing, and shooting an arrow through twelve axe handles.
Who is Penelope?
True or False: In the sentence below, the subject and verb agree.
On sunny days, you can find Johanna and her friends plays outside.
False.
Bonus points: play
What does the underlined word mean in this sentence:
The Lord Odysseus reappeared - and his son was thunderstruck.
What is surprised or shocked?
When Odysseus reveals his identity, Telemachus thinks Odysseus is this.
What is a god?
What is different about the arrow that Odysseus picks up vs the arrows in the quiver?
Odysseus' arrow is NOT poisoned
King that helped Odysseus return home.
King Alcinous
True or False: The sentence below is grammatically correct.
Should students be able to use phones in school or can they be trusted to not use them improperly?
False.
Bonus points: There should be a comma after the word school.
Disbelief.
What is incredulity?
Swineherd who helps Odysseus and Telemachus.
Who is Eumaeus?
When the audience knows more than the character does.
What is dramatic irony?
Who recognizes Odysseus, but doesn't tell anyone?
Hint: NOT Telemachus or Argos.
Who is the nurse (Eurycleia)?
Is the sentence below complete, a run-on, or a fragment?
With more than sixty percent of the popular vote, incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson defeating Republican Barry Goldwater, Sr., in the 1964 presidential election.
Fragment.
Bonus points: Change the word defeating to the word defeated.