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EPIC SIMILES
EPITHETS
VOCABULARY
QUESTIONS FROM STORY
QUESTIONS FROM STORY/ VOCABULARY
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“A gull patrolling between the wave crests of the desolate sea will dip to catch a fish, and douse his wings; no higher above the whitecaps Hermes flew...” A gull flying above the waves
What is Hermes being related to in this EPIC SIMILE?
100
Strategist
What is "the stratigist Odysseus."
100
Tormented, harassed
What is harried
100
The prince of Thebes
Who, from the Underworld, asked to taste the blood from Odysseus’s sword?
100
Who was the sweet nymph who kept Odysseus captive
What is Calypso
200
“...but switching their long tails they faced our men like hounds, who look up when their master comes with tidbits for them–as he will–from table. Humbly those wolves and lions with mighty paws fawned on our men–who met their yellow eyes and feared them.” hounds, who look up when their master comes with tidbit for them.
What were the wolves and lions being related to in this EPIC SIMILE?
200
Son of Laertes
What is Odysseus
200
Filled with dismay, horrified
What is Appalled
200
True, Odysseus’s men tied him up to keep him from giving in to the Sirens
Odysseus’s men tied him up to the mast of the ship. (True or False) Explain?
200
What was the Cyclops name
What is Polyphemus
300
“...deep in his crater eye, and I leaned on it turning it as a shipwright turns a drill in planking, having men below to swing the two-handled strap that spins it in the groove.” a shipwright turning a drill in planking.
What is Odysseus gouging the Cyclops eye out being related to in this EPIC SIMILE?
300
Because he raided the city of Troy
Why was Odysseus called "the raider of cities?
300
Heavy in a clumsy way; bulky
What is Ponderous
300
3 bowls
What is how many bowls of wine Polyphemus drank.
300
A sense of approaching evil
What is Foreboding:
400
“In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam–the way they make soft iron hale and hard–: just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.” a hot axe head plunged in a cold tub.
What is the eyeball next to the spike being related to in this EPIC SIMILE?
400
Early morning
What is the time of day "...When the young dawn with fingertips of rose came in the east..."
400
Abundance
What is Profusion
400
Odysseus tell the Cyclops his name was
What is Nohbdy
400
An opponent, enemy
What is Adversary
500
A simile at great length, so that it goes on for several lines.
What is an EPIC SIMILE?
500
Because he led his men and didn't leave them behind. He was brave and courageous.
What is "the great Odysseus"
500
The act of being in serious, reflective thought
What is Meditation
500
Odysseus told the Cyclops his name was Nohbdy
What is to trick Polyphemus
500
To calm of pacify
What is Assuage