The Odyssey
Odysseus is king of and is originally from this island and the first 16 books of The Odyssey detail his return journey to it.
What is Ithaca?
Towards the end of the novel, Granger tells a story about this mythical creature and how it rises from the ashes.
What is a Phoenix?
At the beginning of the year, we read this poem by former poet laureate Amanda Gorman that called for immediate climate action and has a title that is a play-on-words having to do with what an Astronaut might see from space instead of a sunrise.
What is Earthrise?
For a thesis statement to be successful, it must contain these 4 things.
What is the title of the source, the author, your claim, and your evidence.
This is the name that Odysseus originally gives to Polyphemus while he and his men are trapped in the Cyclops' cave.
Who is Nobody?
When Clarisse and Montag first meet in part 1, she ends the conversation by asking Montag this question, which upsets him greatly.
What is "Are you happy?"
This poem by Matthew Arnold ends with the lines "And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight; / Where ignorant armies clash by night."
What is Dover Beach?
The Odyssey was originally memorized and recited by travelling orators called this, which literally means "stitched together"
What is a Rhapsode?
When Odysseus eventually returns to his homeland and reunites with his wife Penelope, she decides to test him. She tricks him into revealing the "secret of their marriage bed" which is revealed to be this.
What is that the bed cannot be moved because it is built into a large tree?
Complete the opening line of the novel:
"It was a ___________ to _____"
What is Pleasure / Burn?
"The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas" was originally written by this female, American Sci-Fi/Fantasy author.
Who is Ursula K. Le Guin?
One of our journals had you compare two paintings. One by abstract artist Piet Mondrian and one by the Dutch Renaissance artist Peter Brughel the Elder. Tell me the title of either painting.
What is "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" or "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"?
When half of Odysseus' men are turned into swine by Circe, Odysseus goes to bargain with her. On the way, Hermes appears to him disguised as a young boy and offers him this plant which he says will prevent Circe's magic from working on him.
What is Moly?
At the end of Part 1, Montag reads the following passage from this book to Mildred, though neither of them seem to understand it at first.
"It has been calculated that 11000 individuals have chosen to suffer death rather than crack their eggs on the little end."
What is Gulliver's Travels?
In "The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas," the narrator explains that the city is not a puritanical society. She even makes a point to mention this drug that brings on a euphoric feeling and is not habit forming!
What is Drooz?
What is The Alchemist?
The Odyssey begins with the opening lines: "Sing in me muse and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending." Which is an example of this thing that all Greek stories from oral tradition begin with.
What is the Invocation of the Muse?
When Montag meets with Granger and the other wandering intellectuals, Granger tells him that they have all memorized books rather than keeping physical copies on them. Montag then reveals to the group that he has memorized this specific book which can be found in the Old Testament or in the Ketuvim.
What is Ecclesiastes?
"If you find yourself distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
One of the first videos I showed you was a commercial for the BSPCA that prominently featured this Canadian singer, most famous for her song "In the Arms of an Angel."
Who is Sarah McLachlan?