What is the title of Book 8?
Games.
What type of camera shot is used here?
Establishing shot or extreme long shot.
What is the "godly gift" given to Odysseus by King Aeolus?
A bag of wind, leaving behind only the wind that would blow his ship back to Ithaca.
This is another example of what negative trait of Odysseus's?
Hubris.
What is the setting of Book 8?
Phaeacia.
"They attacked with a force so numerous, they were like the leaves in autumn."
What language technique is being used here?
Simile.
Identify two themes that are represented in this panel.
Temptation and loyalty.
What is Scylla?
A six-headed sea monster.
Who is pictured here?
King Alcinoos.
What likely caused Zeus to do this?
Odysseus's crew had displayed poor xenia by plundering the land of the Cicones.
Fill the gap.
Laestrygonians.
"the sucking mouth called __________".
Fill the gap.
Charybdis.
Identify one visual technique that helps to provide salience to Odysseus and King Alcinoos in this panel.
Acceptable answers include:
- Colour saturation
- Composition
- Centrality
Identify two themes that are relevant to the panels above.
Acceptable answers:
- Temptation
- Hospitality
- Leadership
Which technique that is unique to graphic novels does Hinds use to convey a sense of chaotic action?
Diagonal gutters.
What decision does Odysseus make to help them survive Scylla?
He does not tell them about it.
Identify two visual techniques used to show that Odysseus is offended by what Euryalus is saying.
- facial expression
- medium shot
- emanata/plewds
What happens to someone when they eat the lotus fruit?
They forget all about their cares and their home and just want to stay and enjoy the "blissful euphoria".
Whom does this house belong to?
Circe.
What angle is used here to portray Odysseus and his crew as vulnerable?
Birds-eye view.
What language technique is used here to help convey the physical prowess of Odysseus?
Onomatopoeia.
Fill the gap with the correct word.
Zeus.
What happens if you consume Circe's magical drink?
You turn into an animal.
Identify four visual techniques and two language techniques that help to convey the violent and chaotic nature of this event.
Acceptable answers include:
- Facial expressions
- Body language
- Diagonal gutters
- Emanata (speed/movement lines)
- Emanata (plewds)
- Size
- Onomatopoeia
- Imperative
What kind of camera shot is used here to highlight Odysseus's strength?
Identify two visual techniques that help to convey the vulnerability of Odysseus here.
Acceptable answers:
- High angle
- Emanata/plewds
- Size/composition
- Colour/symbolism
Identify a theme that is represented in these panels?
Temptation and the active role of the gods.
“After that, you will see the island of Thrinacia, where the sun god ______________ keeps his divine ___________, tended by two immortal nymphs.”
Fill the gaps.
Helios, cattle.
Which theme is most prominent in these panels?
Hospitality.
Identify one theme that is represented in this panel.
Acceptable answers:
- Mental strength
- Deceit
What role does Hermes play in Book 10?
"and the meat on the spits began to bellow like a herd of oxen"
What language technique is used here to show the god's disapproval of the decision of Odysseus's crew to disregard warnings not to eat Helios's cattle?
Simile.
Why did Demodocus's song bring grief to Odysseus?
It was about the Trojan War.
Why can't Odysseus kill the cyclops immediately?
If they killed him, they would still be trapped in the cave.
Which language technique helps to draw attention to the feelings experienced by Odysseus's crew?
Acceptable answers:
- Alliteration
- Emotive language
- Rhetorical question
Identify two language techniques and two visual techniques used here to convey the idea that the future of Odysseus and his crew was being influenced by a higher force?
Language: Personification, metaphor.
Visual: Size, colour, composition.
Identify two language techniques present in the following quote from Odysseus.
Acceptable answers include:
- Epiphet
- Metaphor
- Visual imagery
Identify two themes that are represented in this panel.
Hubris and temptation.
Whom is Odysseus instructed to visit in the Land of the Dead?
The great seer Tiresias.
Identify two language techniques used by Eurylochus to persuade his crewmates to go against the decisions of their leader.
Emotive language: "repugnant, painful, and slow"; "not die pitifully"
Visual imagery: "fat, majestic cattle"
Idiom: "we'll go down fighting"