The Odyssey
The Hero's Journey
Vocabulary
Figurative language
Cattle of the Sun God
100

Odysseus is the king of this island 

What is Ithaca ?

100

The encounter with the Sirens is an example of...

What is a temptress?

100

The definition of tactics

What are planned methods or strategies to win

100

Comparing using like or as 

What is a simile ?

100

The owner of the cattle

Who is Helios?

200

Odysseus and his crew are warned not to do this constantly 

What is eating the cattle of the sun god ?

200

The main shadow in The Odyssey...

Who is Poseidon ?

200

Having excessive pride would be...

What is hubris?

200

"We saw a cavern yawning above the water, screened with laurel" is an example of..

What is personification ?

200

This is where Odysseus went when he got to the island

What is a temple ?

300

This leads to the death of many of Odysseus' men ?

What is disobeying their leader?

300

Tiresias acts as a..

What is a supernatural aid ?

300

Another way to say " get back"

What is avenge ?

300

"He seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude" he's being called...

What is a hairy man that's as big as a mountain?

300

Odysseus couldn't stop his men due to this..

What is falls asleep?

400

According to the cyclops, this person stabbed him.

Who is Nobody?

400

Polyphemus is best described as..

What is a threshold guardian ?

400

Explain clearly and make something easy to understand

What is elucidate?

400

Referring to the sirens outside of the context of The Odyssey 

What is an allusion?

400

This was their plan to apologize to the sun god for eating his cattle

What is offering a sacrifice ?

500

How does Elpenor die?

What is falling while drunk ?

500

The item that protected Odysseus from being turned into a pig would be this..

What is a talisman ?

500

Coming after something else in time or order

What is subsequent?

500

A multiple line comparison in a poem 

What is an extended metaphor/ epic simile ?

500

This is the reason that Odysseus' men defied his orders

What is starving to death ?

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