Iliad
Epic Vocabulary
Epic Elements
Archetypes
Archetypes
100
The war featured in the Iliad.
What is the Trojan War?
100
A comparison that goes on for several lines in an epic poem.
What is an epic simile?
100
The way that epic poems were passed from generation to generation.
What is orally? Through storytelling.
100
An archetype is...
What is a character, plot, or setting that reoccurs throughout literature. It is a model or prototype.
100
The archetypal character who is the unexpected victor (winner).
What is the underdog?
200
The name of the most beautiful mortal woman who was stolen from her home in Sparta and brought to Troy.
What is Helen?
200
A way of referring to a character that reveals something about their personality or physical appearance.
What is an epithet?
200
The plot pattern that the epic or hero follows.
What is the hero's journey?
200
The archetypal character who accompanies the hero on the journey.
What is the side-kick
200
The archetypal setting for chaos and confusion.
What is the forest?
300
Achilles' cousin, accidentally killed by Hector.
Who is Patroclus?
300
The Latin phrase for how epic poems open. "In the middle of things"
What is in medias res?
300
Epic heroes embody...
What is the values of their culture?
300
The archetypal character who is the antagonist to the hero.
What is the villain?
300
The archetypal setting for bliss or paradise.
What is the garden?
400
Achilles' retaliation against Agamemnon for taking his war prize.
What is withdrawing from the war?
400
Extreme pride. Epic heroes often suffer from this.
What is hubris?
400
The listing of participants in the war, or ships present in the war.
What is catalog?
400
The archetypal character who works for the villain, but is not necessarily evil. Confronting this/these character(s) is one of the hero's trials.
What is the ogre, monster, dragon?
400
The archetypal setting for when a character goes within himself to confront his fears.
What is the cave?
500
The consequence of not having a body buried properly, according to the Greeks.
What is doomed to wander along the banks of the river Styx. Not allowed to enter Hades.
500
Epic poems begin with this "call for inspiration."
What is the invocation of the muse/diety?
500
The calling of heroes by referencing their father's names (Peleus' son = Achilles)
What is Patronymics?
500
The archetypal character who often provides comedic relief.
What is the innocent(s).
500
The archetypal setting that represents the passing of time or crossing into a new world.
What is the river?
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