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Figurative Language
Characters
Motivations
Gods and Goddesses
Character Traits
100
There, in the high chamber, he found his brother fussing over his armor and playing with his great bow, like a girl making ready for a party.
What is a simile?
100
Son of Thetis, Greek warrior, nearly invincible.
Who is Achilles?
100
Achilles gets revenge on Hector because Hector killed this person.
Who is Patroclus?
100
Married to Zeus
Who is Hera?
100
Achilles "slew and slew until the earth ran crimson and the horses, trampling on dead men, flung up great gouts of blood to spatter the axle and rails of the chariot." This passage shows that Achilles is this type of person.
What is violent, ferocious, fierce, mighty?
200
He turned back on Pandarus with a mighty spearcast that took him full in the face and sent him sprawling into dust and darkness.
What is alliteration?
200
Strong, Greek warrior, friend of Achilles, kills himself.
Who is Ajax?
200
Menelaus and Agamemnon lead an army to Troy because Paris took this woman from Menelaus.
Who is Helen?
200
Goddess of wisdom
Who is Athene or Athena?
200
"And Hector, seeing this, shouted the war cry like a huntsman crying on his hounds against a lion, and rushed forward at the head of his warriors, scattering the Greeks like spray." This passage shows that Hector is what type of person.
What is brave, mighty, leader, courageous?
300
She dropped like a wounded bird among all the wailing women.
What is a simile?
300
Youngest son of King Priam
Who is Paris?
300
Patroclus dresses up in Achilles' army for this reason.
What is to scare the Trojans away?
300
Goddess of beauty, awarded the Golden Apple by Paris
Who is Aphrodite?
300
Helen says to Paris, "Hear now my greeting to you. It is this: that I wish you had died out there between the war-hosts, at the hand of my true marriage-lord, who is a better man than you will ever be!" This passage reveals that Helen thinks Paris is this type of person.
What is cowardly, weak, scared?
400
While Achilles had the sleep of a lion glutted with much killing....
What is a metaphor?
400
Most clever of the Greeks, steals the Luck of Troy, thinks of the Wooden Horse
Who is Odysseus?
400
Paris gives Aphrodite the golden apple because she promises him this.
Who is the most beautiful woman on the earth, Helen?
400
This god helps guide an arrow into Achilles' foot.
Who is Apollo?
400
"Achilles had nursed his anger so long and allowed it to drive so deep within him that now he could not let it go, even if he would." This passage shows Achilles is this type of person.
What is angry, stubborn, selfish?
500
Like a lightning flash among storm clouds she went.
What is a simile?
500
Best friend of Achilles, killed by Hector
Who is Patroclus?
500
The Greeks build the Wooden Horse because a soothsayer tells them they cannot win the war with strength but with this.
What is cunning?
500
This god gets inside Ajax's head and makes him behave strangely.
Who is Dionysus?
500
"Diomedes of the Loud War Cry, with his battle drunkenness upon him, went raging up and down the plain, leaving dead men behind him as a flooded river leaves the torn-off limbs of trees." This passage shows Diomedes is this type of person.
What is strong, mighty, violent, fierce, brave?