The Odyssey Characters
An epic hero who travels from Troy to Ithaca
Odysseus
Odysseus's first stop where his men mutinously take more than they should
Cicones
The cyclops who eats four of Odysseus's men and curses him
Polyphemus
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
Lacking in seriousness, disrespectful, saucy
Flippant
Odysseus's wife, who tests him to make sure he is authentic
Penelope
Where Odysseus sees a fallen man, his mother, and Tiresias
The Land of the Dead
The cows that Odysseus and his men are forbidden to eat
The Cattle of the Sun God
Repeating vowel sounds
Assonance
A kingdom; a region or field of study
Realm
Odysseus's son who travels to learn information of him
Telemachus
The island of the cattle of the sun god
Thrinacia
A six-headed sea monster
Scylla
The word choice
Diction
Forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out
Obtrusive
One of Odysseus's men who convinces the others to eat the cattle of the sun god
Eurylochus
Odysseus's home island
Ithaca
A whirlpool
Charybdis
The feelings evoked in the reader
Mood
To divide and give out in shares
Apportion
Odysseus's patron goddess who provides an olive tree and transforms him upon his return to Ithaca
Athena
The place where lawless brutes live
The Land of the Cyclopes
The animals that Odysseus and his men ride out of the cyclopes cave on the pectoral fleece
The Rams of the Cyclops
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
Incorrect, containing mistakes
Erroneous