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Epopee in Eastern Literature
Story and Theme
Classical Epics
Epic Poems
Great Writers
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It is the story where Ulysses survives Trojan War
What is the Odyssey?
100
It refers to the actions and the events that happen within the text.
What is the story?
100
In this epic, gods have a lot of influence, they also fear as men do.
What is The Iliad?
100
They were taught to recite poems to important aristocrats?
What are the 'Aedos'?
100
An ancient Greece epic poem wrote by Homer which recounts some of the significant events of the final weeks of the Trojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy
'What is the Iliad?'
200
Philosophy and wisdom are the greatest aspects of this culture's literature.
What is Chinese literature?
200
It is an idea that appears in the text and that is central, but the author does not say it explicitly.
What is the theme?
200
These are known as the beginnings of Greek epics.
What are pastoral poems or songs?
200
Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Ares, and Aphrodite are all known as this thing to Ancient Greek.
What are gods?
200
Writer of 'The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'; the story about a man who read many books about cavalry and knights, and he leaves home to try to make justice, as the medieval knights from the books did.
'Who is Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra'
300
The story where Achiles is the warrior, and was possibly written by Homer.
What is the Iliad?
300
Movies, Essays, Reviews, and Theaters are all concepts of this theme.
What is Story and Theme?
300
He was known as the author that was surroundied by misteries.
Who is Homer?
300
It appears in several chapters to mention something in more detail.
What is Enumeration?
300
It's about Ulysses, a survivor of the Troyan War, he wants to go back to Ithaca. Along the way he has to do many jouneys and trials placed by the Gods. Wrote by Homero
'What is The Odyssey?'
400
The famous religious book that heavily influenced the Hebrew people.
What is the Bible?
400
The story is narrated in this order.
What is chronological order?
400
In this text, Ulysses is one of the survivors of the Trojan war.
What is the Odyssey?
400
"Far-darting Phoebus", "blue-eyed Pallas" and "swift-footed Achilles" are all examples of this literary mechanism.
What is an epithet?
400
Writer of The Aeneid, a Romans text trying to emulate Greeks, where the hero Aeneas meets queen Dido and the Gods made him go to hell to observe the future of Rome.
'Who is Virgil?'
500
Historical books, poetic books and wisdom books are an example of this medium.
What is literature?
500
It could be simply defined like a generalization of the work, as if it were a summary in a nutshell.
What is The Theme?
500
EASY JEOPARDY!!!! (500 point wager) TRUE OR FALSE, Does the Iliad has more than 150,000 verses?
False, it only has more than 15,000 verses.
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!! (1,000 points wager) "Where, like a tempest, darkening heaven around, / Or fiery deluge that devours the ground, / The impatient Trojans, in a gloomy throng, / Embattled roll'd, as Hector rush'd along (Homer, 2004, p. 380)." are all an example of this literary figure.
What is ornate language?
500
Wrote by Krishna Dwaipayana (or Vyasa). It is composed of more than 200,000 verses, is known as the longest epic poem. Talks about the battle between Pandu sons and Kuru brothers, 18 years of battle for the trone of Hastinapura.
'What is The Mahabharata?'