This is the war that Odysseus and his men are involved in right before the beginning of "The Odyssey".
What is the Trojan War?
100
These are the two groups of people who fought in the war.
Who are the Greeks and the Trojans.
100
This term describes a long narrative poem about gods and heroes.
What is an epic?
100
The main character of the epic.
Who is Odysseus?
100
The wife of the main character.
Who is Penelope?
200
This was the gift that was given to the city of Troy after the Greeks were "defeated".
What is the Trojan horse?
200
This is the group who won the war.
Who are the Greeks?
200
This term is used to describe the subject or main idea of a selection.
What is theme?
200
This is the cyclops that eats Odysseus' men.
Who is Polyphemus?
200
This is the god that is enraged at Odysseus for harming his son.
Who is Poseidon?
300
This is the city in which the war was fought.
What is Troy?
300
This is the length of time the Trojan War took.
What is 10 years?
300
This story begins "in the middle of things," which describes this literary element.
What is a flashback?
300
This is the god who illustrates that the Gods have human-like emotions when his cows are eaten.
Who is Helios/Apollo?
300
This is the one god who helped Odysseus through his travels.
Who is Athena?
400
This is the reason the war began.
What is What is Helen of Sparta was stolen from Sparta by Paris of Troy?
400
This is the person whose cunning finally won the war.
Who is Odysseus?
400
"as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze / in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam / and its temper hardens — that's the iron's strength — / so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake!" (9.438-41) is an example of an epic _____________.
What is simile?
400
This is the blind prophet who Odysseus meets in the land of the dead.
Who is Tiresias?
400
This is the person who turns Odysseus' men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
500
This is the name of the author of "The Odyssey" and the story that recounts the story of this war.
Who is Homer?
500
This is the name of the book that describes the war that is fought.
What is "The Illiad?"
500
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An example of this literary element is when Polyphemus is speaking to the ram Odysseus is hiding under about the whereabouts of Odysseus.
500
This is the suitor who Odysseus kills first.
Who is Antinous?
500
This is the person who keeps Odysseus prisoner for three years.