Who's the God or Goddess?
He is the King of the Gods who says Odysseus may go free at the beginning of the poem.
Who is Zeus?
This is how the ancient Greeks encountered epic poetry?
What is orally, or they listened to it?
This monster is known for his eye.
What is Cyclops?
This plant makes Odysseus men forget their desire to go home.
What is the lotus flower?
When Telemachus meets his father in the Swineherd hut, but believes him to be a beggar it is an example of what literary device?
What is dramatic irony?
This Messenger God tells Calpyso that she must let Odysseus go home.
Who is Hermes?
The Odyssey is written in this rhythmic style of epic poetry
What is dactylic hexameter?
This monster is a giant whirlpool.
What is Charybdis?
Penelope offers this challenge to the suitors
What is she will marry the man who can string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through 12 iron axe handles?
“They attacked us with a force so numerous, they were like the leaves in autumn” is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
The cyclops were the sons of this God.
Who is Poseidon?
Because Odysseus has this quality of a hero, Athena loves him.
What is cunning, craftiness, skill, or metis.
This monster has six man-eating heads.
What is Scylla?
This is where Odysseus was held captive for seven years
What is Ogygia?
“It would have been better if I had listened to them” is an example of this literary term that means to indicate something before hand.
What is foreshadowing?
This minor goddess changes men into swine.
Who is Circe?
He is the accepted composer/author/poet of The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Odysseus protected his men from this monster and faced the monster alone while lashed to the mast of his ship
Who is/are are the sirens?
This is the reason the crew goes back to Circe's island after visiting the land of the dead.
What is they need to bury Elpinor (who they find in the Underworld--he died on Circe’s island and no one had noticed).
The following words are used in a scene with a man eating monster:
numbed, amazement, trembling.
Is this mood or tone?
What is mood?
Disguised as Mentor at the beginning of the Odyssey.
Who is Athena?
These are three of the characteristics of an epic poem.
What is 1) Begins in media res (in the middle of the story) 2) Begins with an invocation to the muse. 3) It is written in an elevated style. 4) The hero is important culturally. 5) He goes on a journey to find something that is important to him or his people. 5) There is divine intervention by the gods. 6) The hero journeys to the underworld or experiences a symbolic death.
This is the name of the Cyclops.
What is Polyphemus?
Odysseus returns home disguised as this?
What is a begger?
You can use this literary term to describe and compare Clytamnestra and Penelope, and/or Telemachus and Orestes.
What is a foil?