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Literary Elements
Back to Ithaka
100
King of the Gods
Who is Zeus?
100
Define alter ego.
What is a character who is the best or worst of the hero's qualities?
100
This monster is known for his eye.
What is Cyclops?
100
Odysseus compares the Cyclopes with these.
What are wild animals.
100
Telemachus visits this king to get information of his father.
Who is Menelaus?
200
The Messenger God
Who is Hermes?
200
The Odyssey is an example of this.
What is an epic poem?
200
This monster is a giant whirlpool. Watch out!
What is Charybdis?
200
Odysseus shows this trait of an epic hero when he ties his men to the rams.
What is cleverness?
200
Penelope does this to verify that the beggar is Odysseus.
What is tell him a secret only Odysseus would know/ ask her servants to move their bed?
300
Goddess of wisdom.
Who is Athena?
300
Odysseus is an example of one.
What is an Epic Hero?
300
This monster has six heads.
What is Scylla?
300
The epic simile in lines 195-201 helps you understand that the Cyclopes will do grotesque this.
What is eat men?
300
This is the first person to see and recognize Odysseus.
Who is Eumaeus?
400
God of the Sun.
Who is Helios?
400
He is the accepted composer of The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
400
These monsters drive men crazy with their songs.
Who are the Sirens?
400
The life and death of the dog Argos shows this theme.
What is loyalty?
400
Penelope tells the Odysseus she will choose a new king when this happens.
What is when Telemachus grows a beard?
500
God with a bad temper who is working against Odysseus
Who is Poseidon?
500
These are some characteristics of an epic poem.
What is 1) He goes on a journey to find something that is important to him or his people. 2) There is divine intervention by the gods. 3) The hero journeys to the underworld or experiences a symbolic death.
500
This is the name of the Cyclops.
What is Polyphemus?
500
This archetype is present in Book 22: Death in the Great Hall.
What is intervention by a god?
500
This suitor tries to persuade Odysseus to spare their lives.
Who is Eurymachus?
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