Heroes
The sun of sea goddess Thetis and mortal Peleus, a master warrior and able leader of the Myrmidons. (p. 126)
Who is Achilles?
The lord of Olympus, husband of Hera.
Who is Zeus?
The woman, won by Paris, who was taken from Menelaus and brought to Troy.
Who is Helen.
Definition of foreshadowing
When the author drops a hint that something big and/or climactic will happen soon in the story/poem.
Definition of personification.
When someone gives inanimate objects life-like characteristics
Prince and hero of Troy. He is a leader on the battlefield.
Who is Hector?
The definition of the word Carrion
Rotting flesh
Mother of Achilles. Her wedding to Peleus is the site of the fight over the golden apple.
Who is Thetis?
Definition of the word recoil
To flinch back
Definition of simile with an example
Comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
He is as tall as a house.
Commander-in-in chief of the Greek armies. He insults Achilles and nearly costs the Greeks the war. (p.128)
Who is Agamemnon?
He causes the rift between Achilles and Agamemnon. He spread disease in the Greek's camp, and requires the payment of Agamemnon's prize, Chryseis.
Who is Apollo?
Prized woman of Achilles. She is taken by Agamemnon after he loses his prized woman.
Who is Briseis?
Definition of an extended metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as" that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
Definition of an adjective
A word that modifies a noun.
Original husband of Helen. Persuades his brother Agamemnon to lead the Greeks to Troy to retrieve Helen.
Who is Menelaus?
Definition of the word spurn
To reject
Definition of the word pith and which characters it has to do with
Heart --Hector says it to his brother Paris.
The definition of the word bereft
according to the sentence below.
The prisoner was bereft of his fork because he tried to use it as a weapon.
what is deprived.
Definition of an adverb
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there
Cousin and best friend of Achilles.
Who is Patroclus?
Definition of the word fury
extreme rage and/or anger
The goddess of discord. She indirectly causes the whole war.
Who is Eris?
The definition of the literary device, alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word.
Ex: Peter Piper picked up peck of pickled peppers
Definition of agonized
undergoing great pain mentally or physically.