Vocab
This vocabulary word means revenge or retaliation.
What is vengeance?
He is the hero of the Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
This is the island to which Odysseus fought to get home.
Where is Ithaca?
Telemachus was not permitted to let anyone know who his father, Odysseus, was disguised as.
What is a beggar?
This is the name of Poseidon's son.
Who is Polyphemus?
This vocabulary word means arrogant or disrespectful as in one's behaviors or actions.
What is insolent?
This character is the King of Ithaca and the father of Odysseus.
Who is Laertes?
The place nicknamed "The Under World" has a real name.
What is Hades?
The blind prophet, Tiresias, tells Odysseus what he needs to do to meet his goal to get back here. This is a theme of the Odyssey.
What is home?
According to one of our DOL rules, something in the following sentence is incorrect: There's the puzzle pieces you were looking for.
What is there are?
This vocabulary word means exempt from death.
What is immortal?
Odysseus steered away from a whirlpool to save his whole crew.
Who/What is Charybdis?
This is where Odysseus and his men hid under the bellies of large sheep.
What is the Cyclops's lair?
This is the lowest point and biggest challenge in the hero cycle.
What is the abyss?
This word is the adverb used to describe how someone does something.
What is well?
This vocabulary word means intense anger or agitation; rapid movement like boiling water.
What is seething?
This god, the god of the sea, is the who Odysseus angered after the Trojan War.
Who is Poseidon?
This land of the plant eaters lured men to stay and eat the flowers which make them never want to leave.
This is what Penelope would weave and unweave just to hold off the suitors while she waited for her husband to return.
What is a shroud?
This is the name of the formatting style we use in English classes.
What is Modern Language Association?
This vocabulary word means to deceive, trick, or swindle.
What is dupe?
The one-eyed monster, the Cyclops, goes by another name.
Who is Polyphemus?
This is where wax was used to hinder the crew from falling prey to the Sirens.
What are ears?
This is where the arrows must go through during the suitors' test.
What are the axe blades?
This vocabulary term was used in TKAM and The Odyssey. In both stories, the characters did not behave like a hero or a respectable citizen.
What is contempt?