Epic Similes
Expain what is being compared; “I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright’s drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping –So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant’s eye."
Odysseus is comparing a ship's drill to his sword, and how he is repeatedly stabbing the Cyclops' eye.
Which character do these traits describe; King of Ithica, has courage, bravery, and is cunning.
Odysseus
Find a synynom, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The defendent took an oath to be honest in front of the judge.
Avowal
Find an antonym, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The king had his land liberated by a foreign entity.
Commandeer
Figure out the character by an epithet used to decribe them and expain how it describes them. "Grey-eyed goddess"; "daughter of Zeus"; "goddess of wisdom and warfare";
Athena
Explain what is being compared; "…its crackling roots blazed and hissed - 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 Cyclops sizzled round that stake."
Odysseus is comparing the sound of the Cyclops' eye to a backsmith dipping a burning medal object into ice cold water, and the sizzling that follows.
Which character do these traits describe; Goddess of war, favors Odysseus.
Athena
Find a synynom, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The boy was filled with a sense of incoming doom.
Forebonding
Find an antonym, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The party was quite gloom compared to the rest of the day.
Revelry
Figure out the character by an epithet used to decribe them and expain how it describes them. "Witch Goddess"
Circe
Explain what is being compared; “Think of a catch that fishermen haul in to a halfmoon bay in a fine meshed net from the white caps of the sea: how all are poured out on the sand, in throes for the salt sea, twitching their cold lives away in Helios' fiery air: so lay the suitors heaped on one another."
It's comparing the dead suitors to a pile of dead fish laying in the sand.
Which character do these traits describe; Son of Poseidon, is a Cyclops, ate several heads of crewmembers.
Polyphemus
Find a synynom, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The new father was able to calm his child after the endless crying.
Assuage
Find an antonym, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The victim was nonchalant about his business being robbed.
Appalled
Figure out the character by an epithet used to decribe them and expain how it describes them. "Messenger"; "Son of Zeus"
Hermes
Explain what is being compared; “The attackers struck like eagles, crook-clawed, hook-beaked, swooping down from a mountain ridge to harry smaller birds that skim across the flatland cringing under the clouds but the eagles plunge in fury, rip their lives out..."
The excerpt is comparing the attackers to noble eagles.
Which character do these traits describe; leader of the suitors, was killed by an arrow to the throat by Odysseus.
Antinous
Find a synynom, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The dying elk gave a horrible cry.
abominable.
Find an antonym, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The diner staff were untroubled about the mess that was made.
Harried
Figure out the character by an epithet used to decribe them and expain how it describes them. "Raider of Cities"; "God Like"; "Son of Laertes"
Odysseus
Explain what is being compared; "Her mind in torment, wheeling like some lion at bay, dreading the gangs of hunters closing their cunning ring around him for the finish."
The author is comparing Penelope's helplessness as a lion being trapped by hunters, which is describing the suitors.
Which character do these traits describe; King of Phaecia, gave Odysseus a safe travel back to Ithica
Alcinous
Find a synynom, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The trackstar gave his utmost effort in the Olympics.
Travail
Find an antonym, from the Odyssey's vocab, for the underlined word or phrase in the following sentence: The bystanders felt apathy towards the injured animal.
Ardor
Figure out the character by an epithet used to decribe them and expain how it describes them. "The Father"; "Father of Gods and Men";
Zeus