People
Vocab
Literary Device
Plot
Monsters
100
The protagonist of The Odyssey
Who is Odysseus
100
Extremely angry
What is indignant
100
words that appeal to the five senses.
What is Imagery
100
The epic poem that was written before The Odyssey
What is the Iliad
100
a tyrannical Cyclops
Who is Polyphemus
200
Odysseus's son who is now around 21 years old
Who is Telemachus
200
Shockingly bad or tasteless; dreadful
What is atrocious
200
sarcasm wherein the speaker means the opposite of what they actually say
What is Verbal irony
200
Eris got angry and threw the apple of discord, leading to Paris stealing Helen from King Menelaus. This action started which war?
What is the Trojan War
200
the six-headed monster
Who is Scylla
300
She turns Odysseus' men into pigs
Who is Circe
300
an unknown or unimportant person or thing
What is obscurity
300
The dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation
300
If you ate their plant you would lose all motivation to leave their island
What is the land of the Lotus Eaters
300
a huge whirlpool that sucks down ships into a bottomless hole
Who is Charybdis
400
He gives Odysseus a bag of wind, but Odysseus' men open the bag and are forced back to his island
Who is Aeolus
400
insulted
What is slighted
400
Hector, The Horse Tamer; Circe, The Enchantress
What is an epithet
400
The island Odysseus visits before returning to Ithaca
What is the island of Phaeacia
400
beautiful sea nymphs whose songs hypnotized sailors
Who are the Sirens
500
peaceful godlike people
Who are the Phaecians
500
glorious, memorable, well-known
What is illustrious
500
possess heightened (exaggerated) every day strengths that give them advantages for success.
What is an epic hero
500
Odysseus kills all of the suitors, and reclaims his thrown. This is what part of the plot?
What is the resolution
500
Odysseus's men kill his cattle because they are extremely hungry
Who is Hyperion
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