Background
Stages of the Epic Hero Cycle
Who-What-Where
Lit Term: Definitions
Lit Term: Examples
100
Poet
What is Homer
100
Steps 1 and 2 of the cycle
What is Hero is charged with a quest and possessed of supernatural abilities
100
People who eat a honeyed plant and do not care about anything else
Who are the Lotus Eaters
100
A term used to characterize a person or a thing, usually repeated frequently.
What is Epithet
100
Zeus, lord of cloud
What is Epithet
200
Prequel to the poem
What is The Iliad
200
Steps 3 and 4
What is the hero is tested to prove his worthiness and he encounters mythical, magical beings
200
Seductive mermaids who lure men to their deaths
Who are Sirens
200
A poetic phrase used as substitute for the person, place or thing it is describing.
What is Kenning
200
The came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. So doom appeared to us Name 2 devices in this quote
What is simile and personification
300
Ancient Greek Storytellers who would recite these poems
What is Rhapsode
300
Step 5
What is the hero enters worlds/realms others are usually barred from entering
300
Name of six headed monster and whirlpool
Who are Scylla and Charybdis
300
Indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole.
What is synechdoche
300
My home is on the sea peaked mark of Ithaca
What is kenning
400
The Iliad tells the story of
What is the Greeks battle to sack the town of Troy. Odysseus thinks up the idea of the Trojan Horse and successfully allows the Greeks to invade the city
400
Step 6
What is the hero reaches a low point where he most nearly fails
400
Giant one eyed monster (name and formal name)
What is Cyclops; Polyphemus
400
A lengthy comparison, usually comparing something extraordinary to something ordinary, which uses words such as like, as, and so.
What is epic simile/homeric simile
400
I leaned on it as a shipwright turns a drill in planking, having men below to swing the two handled strap that spins it in the groove. So with our brand we bored that great eye socket while blood ran out around the red-hot bar. Name two devices
What is epic simile, alliteration
500
Who are the main characters in the Iliad
What is Priam, Hector and Paris of Troy; Agammemnon, Menalaus and Achilles of Greece - Helen of Sparta and then of Troy
500
Steps 7 and 8
What is the hero is ressurrected and ultimately restored to his rightful place
500
Goddess who advises Odysseus on his challenges with the mermaids and six headed monster
Who is Circe
500
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants
What is assonance
500
Now Zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships, and driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea. The bows went plunging at the gust; sails Cracked and lashed out Name 3 poetic devices
What is Epithet, Simile, Personification, and Synecdoche
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