Monsters/Gods
Characters
Plot
Vocabulary/Literary Terms
Grammar
100

Poseidon's son (name)

Who is Polyphemus?

100

The people that Odysseus's men rape and plunder and who kill many of Odysseus's men

Who are the Cicones?

100
After eating these fruits, Odysseus' men no longer wish to go home
What are the lotus flowers?
100

Greeks often show this to strangers.

What is hospitality?
100

The name for FANBOYS (and name them all)

What are coordinating conjunctions? (For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)

200

Lives on the island of Aeaea

Who is Circe?

200

Penelope's favorite suitor

Who is Amphinomous?

200

Penelope calls this a "low art"

What is storytelling?

200

Literary term for persuasive speech

What is rhetoric?
200

Despite, Although, After

Subordinating conjunctions

300

Odysseus's men eat his cows (name/position)

Who is Helios, the sun god?

300

Two of Odysseus's physique attributes

What are short legs and a barrel chest?

300
Final words of The Penelopiad are said by  _______

Who are the maids?

300
This is a descriptive device that is used in place of a noun
What is an epithet?
300

Furthermore, moreover, however

What is a conjunctive adverb?

400

The maids summon them to get justice

What are the furies?
400

Described as "diddling around...mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and a lot of time on their hands"

Who are the gods?

400

How Penelope's marriage to Odysseus defies tradition

What is she goes to live with his family instead of him staying with hers?

400

Definition of tone

What is an author's or character's attitude towards someone or something?

400

Punctuate this sentence:

The car my own little sanctuary was full of life always running and never going where it was supposed to.

What is:

The car, my own little sanctuary, was full of life, always running, and never going where it was supposed to.

500
A giant whirlpool/maelstrom
Who is Charybdis?
500

Odysseus's mother

Who is Antcleia?

500

One thing Odysseus has been reborn into and how it "always end[s]"

What is a tycoon in America/a Mongolian invader/a headhunter in Borneo/a film star/an inventor/an advertising man

What is "always ended badly, with a suicide or an accident or a death in battle or an assassination"

500

"Her mind in torment, wheeling like some lion at bay, dreading the gangs of hunters closing their cunning ring around her for the finish."

What is an epic simile?

500
Make this active:

All files, despite being hidden, were being destroyed when we got there.

What is:

The detectives were destroying all files, despite being hidden, when we got there.

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