Sentence Structure
Figurative Language
The Odyssey
Essays
Potpourri
100
Also known as an independent clause or complete sentence.
What is a simple sentence?
100
The flowers stretched their petals to reach for the sunlight.
What is personification?
100
These are the first four books of the epic poem.
Whafirsts he Telemakhia?
100
This method of textual support is ideal for longer passages.
What is a block quotation?
100
The name of one of the nereids in The Odyssey.
What is Eudothea or Ino?
200
These words make an independent clause dependent.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
200
Our minds sliced through the pages of the novel.
What is an implied metaphor?
200
These two nymphs were helpful to the mortals.
What is Eudothea and Ino?
200
This tool helps replace or change a letter or word when quoting text.
What is a bracket?
200
A comma is used in a complex sentence only after this clause.
What is a dependent clause?
300
This punctuation should always be surrounded by two complete sentences.
What is the semi-colon?
300
Think of a soldier back from war without peace in his heart. So did the young bride return from her horrible honeymoon.
What is a Homeric simile?
300
These two individuals are similar to Homer in that they are poets, even though they use their harps.
What is Demodokos and Phemios?
300
This specific essay requires a literal account of what is happening in a passage.
What is a close reading essay?
300
After analyzing a standard metaphor, we are concerned with this person's purpose.
What is the author's or Homer's?
400
These ten words change an independent clause into a dependent clause.
What is if, since, because, when, while, unless, until, before, after, even though
400
She played chess like a special federal agent searching for Bin Laden.
What is a standard simile?
400
This creature has no face, no arms, and exists just as a swirling mouth.
What is Charybdis?
400
In the précis essay, this rhetorical device utilizes an appeal to morality.
What is ethos?
400
A decent topic sentence for the figurative paragraph in a close reading essay should consist of these three elements.
What is the name of the person speaking, the specific type of figurative devices, and context.
500
And, or, nor, yet are a few.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
500
The green leaves of the oak tree are beautiful on a warm summer day.
What is nothing figurative at all.
500
This tree was helpful to Odysseus on several occasions, especially when Penelope tests his identity.
What is the olive tree?
500
These two tasks must be accomplished by the link statement in an expository essay.
What is to summarize the paragraph and to transition to the next paragraph.
500
These nine essential elements must be present in the first paragraph of a précis essay.
What is author, brief bio, title, genre, larger text, strong verb, paraphrased thesis, transition word, quoted thesis.
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