Figurative Language
makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Who is Odysseus?
A clause with one subject and one predicate that is a complete thought.
What is a simple sentence?
An incredibly long poem about a hero
What is an epic?
What is the hook?
Tuck your shirt in
Makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is a metaphor?
The battle that took place at the "hallowed heights of Troy".
What is the Trojan War?
A group of words with either a subject or a predicate but NOT both.
What is a phrase?
The prayer at the beginning of our epic.
What is an invocation?
A book series with three books in it.
What is a trilogy?
The example of the epithet from Ice Age (Sid the Sloth says it).
Lord of the Flame
A thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.
What is personification?
They devoured the cattle of the sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.
Who were Odysseus' Comrades?
A word that ends in ly and usually describes how something is done.
What is an adverb?
more ornate than the typical simile, often lasting
last several lines.
What is an epic simile?
What is a thesis statement?
Finish this statement, "That's my name, not my number..."
Don't call me.
A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The bewitching nymph, the lustrous goddess.
Who is Calypso?
The punctuation mark missing from this question. Billy said "I love pizza."
What is a comma?
steal goods, typically using force and in a time of disorder.
synonyms: steal, take illegally, purloin, seize, thieve, rob, pillage, carry off;
What is plunder?
The famous African American author/poet who wrote the short story, "Thank You, Ma'am.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The line from the song when you don't put your name on the paper (you must sing the line)
If you like it then you should have put your name on it.
A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
He raged on seething against the Great Odysseus until he reaches his native land.
Who is Poseidon?
The punctuation you can use instead of a coordinating conjunction between two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly
What is devoured?
The author of the Illiad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.
What is an allusion?
Goddess of the arts, daughters of Zeus.
Who are the muses?
What is an exclamatory sentence?
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
What is an epithet?
An epithet describing this woman is, "the face that launched a thousand ships".
Who is Helen of Troy? or Who is Helen?
To represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
What is imagery?
There Poseidon went to receive an offering, bulls and rams by the hundreds.
Where is Ethiopia?
A sentence with two independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. ie. The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.
What is an appositive?
The type of text evidence where you put it in your own words and do not need quotation marks.
What is paraphrased?
It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.
What is alliteration?
The Giant Killer dispatched to warn humans of their impending doom.
Who is Hermes?
A sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence
a land made holy or consecrated.
What is hallowed?
The god that accused humans of blaming the gods for their problems even the ones they create themselves.
Who is Zeus?
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. Example: love-hate relationship
What is an oxymoron?
Fighting off suitors who have come believing her husband is dead.
Who is Penelope?
The punctuation you are SUPPOSED to put at the end of an interrogative sentence.
What is a question mark?
to make great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
What is strove? What is strive?
Born from one encounter between her mother Thoosa and Poseidon.
Who is Calypso?
"Every cloud has its silver lining" is an example
What is an idiom?
Cyclops who's giant eye he blinded.
Who is Polyphemus?
Bobby got the lead role in the school play, even though many students tried out. This is a ______ sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
The ancient Greek concept of hospitality, the generosity, and courtesy shown to those who are far from home and/or associates of the person bestowing guest-friendship.
What is Xenia?
What you call a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?