The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Essay Writing
Miscellaneous
100

The white-armed goddess

Who is Hera?

100

Odysseus tells the Cyclops his name is this

What is No Man?

100

The Aeneid was written for this emperor 

Who was Caesar Augustus?

100

Your essay's main argument

What is the thesis?

100

The grey-eyed goddess

Who is Athena?

200

He was "the lone defense of Troy"

Who was Hector?

200

She turned Odysseus' crew into the greedy "pigs" that they were

Who was Circe?

200

The name of Aeneas' father

Who was Anchises?

200

The opening that introduces your essay and makes your audience more receptive

What is the exordium?

200

His name means "man of misery"

Who is Odysseus?

300

This man went on a Trojan killing spree, and managed to kill and wound several Trojan heroes; even wounding Aphrodite

Who is Diomedes?

300

The first person Odysseus meets on his return to Ithaca

Who is the swineherd/Athena?

300

Aeneas is most known for this trait, stated repeatedly throughout the epic.

What is piety/pious/devotion?
300

These 5 types of questions can help generate information for an ANI chart

What are the Five Common Topics?

300

Lengthy, lyrical oration in elevated tone and style, often composed in dactylic hexameter, that tells a heroic story or journey

What is an epic poem?

400

Two leaders that caused the Greek camp to be divided

Who are Agamemnon and Achilles?

400

So that he wouldn't be tempted by their siren song, Odysseus ordered his crew do this to him

What is tie him to the mast?

400

BONUS! 

She was the queen of the Amazon warriors

Who was Camilla?

400

A type of essay that examines what effect literary style and technique has on the reader

What is literary analysis?

400

BONUS!

A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses

What is parallelism?

500

BONUS!

These two formidable Greek warriors "cleaned up" their Trojan foes.

Who are greater and lesser Ajax?

500

The king/god who gave Odysseus a bag of winds

Who was Aeolus?

500

Aeneas avenged this man's death with the death of Turnus

Who was Pallas?

500

The part of the essay that explains the background situation and circumstances that led to the issue being discussed

What is the Narratio?

500

Goddess who wasn't invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, so she made the golden apple "for the most beautiful" that caused a beauty contest which led to the Trojan War.

Who is Eris, the goddess of Discord?
600

Among the Greeks, who was the "ugliest man that ever came to Troy"?

Who was Thersites?

600

BONUS!!

The first four books of the Odyssey

What is the Telemachy?

600

This goddess, hated by her father Pluto, entered Queen Amata and made her crazy

Who is Allecto?

600

BONUS!!

A writing technique that takes two contrasting ideas or things and places them in parallel with each other

What is antithesis?

600

Penelope held off the suiters as long as she was making this

What is a funeral shroud for her father?

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