Characters
"One shade came first ____, of our company who lay unburied still on the wide earth"
Fill in the blank with the characrter's name
Elpenor
“I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright’s drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping"
This is an example of what literary term?
Epic simile
"But here he lies, the man who caused them all. Antinous was the ringleader; he whipped us on to do these things."
Who is speaking in the text above?
Eurymachus
"Then you will coast Thrinacia, the island where ____ cattle graze, fine herds, and flocks"
Helios
"...to be her heart's delight, as Circe of ____, the enchantress"
Aeaea
"...an old hound, lying near, pricked up his ears and lifted up his muzzle. This was ____"
Argos
"Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Alcinous and Odysseus both rose, and Alcinous led the way..."
What two literary terms are applied in the text?
Epithet and personification
Book 12 consists of two sea monsters, what are their names?
Scylla and Charybdis
This god gives Odysseus a magic plant to protect him from Circe's power. Odysseus had to use the plant in order to save his men
Hermes
"...the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of ____."
Name the city, also the first place discovered in the book.
Troy
"In Book 16, Odysseus reveals his identity to ______, and a tearful reunion ensues."
Telemachus
When Odysseus told the Cyclops that his name was "Nohbdy", it is ironic because Odysseus is not nobody, he is the King of Ithaca.
What type of irony is applied?
Verbal irony
In Book 23, how does Odysseus prove himself to Penelope?
He tells Penelope the bed is immovable, a secret they both shared
"For seven of the ten years Odysseus has spent wandering the Mediterranean Sea, he has been held captive by the goddess ____ on her island."
Calypso
"Odysseus and his crew set out for the _______. They arrive and find the place to which Circe has directed them."
land of the dead/Underworld
"...oon from the dark that prince of Thebes came forward bearing a golden staff; and he addressed me"
Who is nicknamed the 'prince of Thebes'?
Tiresias
"...under strange sail shall you come home, to find your own house filled with trouble: insolent men eating your livestock as they court your lady."
When Tiresias speaks to Odysseus, what literary term is applied?
Foreshadowing
In Book 11, what does Circe do to trick the men of Odysseus?
She prepares a meal for the men
"...he (Odysseus) meets the god _____, who gives him a magical plant called moly to protect him from Circe’s power.."
Hermes
"Odysseus explains that soon after leaving Troy, he and his crew land near _____, the city of the Cicones."
Ismarus
"...Odysseus-still disguised as an old beggar-goes to enlist the aid of two of his trusted servants, _____, the swineherd, and Philoetius, the cowherd."
Eumaeus
"Then Scylla made her strike, whisking six of my best men from the ship. I happened to glance aft at ship and oarsmen and caught sight of their arms and legs, dangling high overhead."
What is the term used to describe the text above?
Imagery
The wind blows their ships away
"..to flay those sheep the bronze cut down, and make burnt offerings of flesh to the gods below to sovereign Death, to pale _____"
Fill in the blank with the goddess' name
Persephone
"To appease Helios, Zeus sends down a thunderbolt to sink Odysseus' ship. Odysseus alone survives. He eventually drifts to _____, the home of Calypso"
Ogygia