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Vocabulary!
Name that person.
100
You will crash on the rocks if you listen to songs from these creatures.
What are Sirens?
100
An epic.
What is a long narrative poem called?
100
God of the sea. He despises Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, and constantly hampers his journey home.
Who is Poseidon?
100
An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. For example, Alexander the Great
What is an epithet?
100
The beautiful witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus’s crew into swine when he lands on her island. With Hermes’ help, Odysseus resists her powers and then becomes her lover, living in luxury at her side for a year.
Who is Circe?
200
Odysseus had his men do this to prevent him from being lured by the Siren's songs.
What is tie him to the mast?
200
These reflect universal concerns such as courage or loyalty.
What is an epic theme?
200
This monster is a giant whirlpool; a dangerous whirlpool personified as a female sea monster
What is Charybdis?
200
The meaning of abominably in the phrase, "Scylla yaps abominably, a newborn whelp's cry, though she is huge and monstrous"?
What is an horribly?
200
The god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine
Who is Apollo?
300
Odysseus shows this trait when he ties his men to teh rams.
What is cleverness?
300
These can include an exotic land or involve more than one nation or culture
What is an epic setting?
300
This monster has six heads.
What is Scylla?
300
The meaning of assuage in "Thus to assuage the nations of the dead I pledged these rites"?
What is to be soothed or pacified?
300
A blind prophet from Thebes whose spirit Odysseus visits in the underworld
Who is Tiresias?
400
Stopping here and eating these flowers could makes people forget all about going home
Where is the Island of the Lotus Eaters?
400
He is the accepted composer of The Odyssey. He is also a mysterious blind man that no one knows much about, but he is credited with being one of the best epic poem writers of all time.
Who is Homer?
400
These individuals sing beautiful melodies and appear beautiful to Odysseus.
Who are the Sirens?
400
A character or situation recognizable across times and cultures
What is an archetype?
400
A trusted officer of Odysseus
Who is Eurylochus?
500
Odysseus says Cyclops looks like someone who doesn't eat 'wheaten bread' to show that Cyclops is this.
What is uncivilized?
500
This depicts a long, strange journey filled with complications
What is an epic plot?
500
This is the name of the Cyclops.
What is Polyphemus?
500
When Odysseus states, "We could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside" the word ponderous means...
What is heavy in a clumsy way?
500
She is the goddess of war and wisdom. Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, purposeful battle, and the womanly arts. She assists Odysseus and Telemachus with divine powers throughout the epic, and she speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount Olympus. She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
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