this is when the author's writing appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
100
She had six heads
Who is Scylla?
100
Odysseus' homeland
What is Ithaca?
100
Teiresias needed to drink this to tell his prophecy
What is blood?
100
the poet asking for assistance in telling the story is called this
what is invocation?
200
an adjective or phrase used to characterize someone. Faithful Penelope is an example.
What is an epithet?
200
The reason Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, rather than killing him
What is the boulder need to be moved?
200
this is where Odysseus was telling his story in flashback.
What is King Alcinous' Court?
200
Odysseus doesn't tell his crew about Scylla because he thinks they would do this.
What is panic and endanger the entire ship?
200
The real reason Calypso tells Odysseus to leave her island
What is Hermes told her that Zeus commanded it ?
300
this element of the plot occurs when Odysseus kills all the suitors.
What is the climax?
300
the collective name for one eyed giants
What is Cyclopes?
300
This faithful servant recognizes Odysseus from a scar on his leg
Who is Eurycleia?
300
The reason Telemachus executes the maids
What is they have been "associating" with the suitors?
300
This character had the coolest name in the whole story
Who is Telemachus?
400
An example of this is when the audience knows that Odysseus is the beggar, but the suitors do not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
the only male monster we read about
Who is Polyphemus?
400
This is how Penelope knows Odysseus is truly her husband
What is he describes the tree-bed?
400
This bad man tried to save the suitors by bargaining with Odysseus
Who is Eurymachus?
400
this special herb saved Odysseus from Circe's spell
What is moly? or what is moly, moly, moly?
500
this is the person the Homeric Simile below is describing:
"He veered to skim the swell. A gull patrolling between the wave crests of the desolate sea will dip to catch a fish, and douse his wings; no higher above whitecaps ___________ flew until the distant land."
Who is Hermes?
500
could be a guest on Maury's paternity test show, but would't want to claim his monocular son.
Who is Poseidon?
500
they join Odysseus in the fight against the suitors... real names, please.
Who are Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Philoeteus?
500
The worst of all the suitors and the first to be killed