Using words like "puppies" to describe the suitors who are beaten to a pulp by the cyclops, Homer employs this device.
What is diction OR simile OR pathos?
100
"Grey-eyed goddess" and "the man of twists and turns" are examples of this descriptive device.
What is epithet?
100
The poem begins in a chaotic state, right in the center of the action, also known as this.
What is in media res?
100
This myopic character is an allegory for those who are culturally different; he lives in isolation as a distant shepherd, and it definitely not used to hosting company from faraway lands. REFER TO HIM BY HIS NAME.
Who is Polyphemus?
100
This woman weaves a funeral shroud by day, but undoes her work by night, distracting her suitors. With great cunning, she is much like her husband.
Who is Penelope?
200
Homer describes Ogygia at great length, using rich diction and layering visuals to show the beauty of this isolated island, thus employing this literary device.
What is imagery?
200
Name the primary source of supernatural aid for Odysseus, and the god who despises him, respectively.
Who are Athena and Poseidon?
200
The poem begins with this, Homer asking for divine help in order to tell Odysseus' tale with strength and accuracy.
What is the Invocation of the Muse?
200
These monstrous, gargantuan people represent the "savage other," showing that the outside world is a fearsome one. One might even say it's a "dog-eat-dog"- or man-eat-man- kind of world after encountering them...
Who are the Laistrygonians?
200
This woman is a catalyst, and often, Odysseus' "deus ex machina."
Who is Athena?
300
The olive wood/olive tree repeatedly represents culturally significant ideas such as home, wisdom, and hope, making it this kind of literary device.
What is a symbol?
300
This illustrious island where Odysseus grew up to raise his own kind and reign as king is a symbol of home and cultural perfection.
What is Ithaca?
300
After Odysseus' men eat Helios' cattle, Zeus strikes them lightning for disobeying this cardinal principle of Greek culture (looks like they ate a little too much steak...).
What is the Golden Mean?
300
These people live on a strange substance that forces them to forget their families and other valuable aspects of life; they are an allegory for addiction.
Who are The Lotus Eaters?
300
This woman is a victim of her society's misogyny; how come Zeus can have a mortal girlfriend, but she cannot have a mortal boyfriend? Not fair!
Who is Circe?
400
The tearful reunion between father and son when Odysseus comes home uses strong diction of their bittersweet meeting to enhance this appeal.
What is pathos?
400
This witchy woman warns Odysseus about the treacherous trials he will meet at sea, Scylla and Charybdis.
Who is Circe/Kirke?
400
Shown by Odysseus' wiles and trickery of other characters through disguise and smooth speech, we now know that the Greeks valued this trait in their heroes.
What is wisdom?
400
Odysseus must make a difficult choice as a leader: sail next to this monster and lose 6 men, or sail next to this second monster and potentially lose all men? Both of these monsters work together to represent the hard choices leaders must make for their people.
What are Scylla and Charybdis?
400
This insolent fool of a maid scoffs at Odysseus when he comes back to Ithaca in disguise. She doesn't associate with lowly beggars, only the handsome Antinous.
Who is Melantho?
500
When Zeus mentions that obscure story about Agamemnon, the great war-king who was killed by his wife's lover upon coming home from the Trojan War, Homer is employing this device.
What is allusion?
500
This lovely princess follows the Greek code of hospitality when she finds Odysseus washed up on her island, naked, and covered in olive branches; she decides to house and feed the poor wretch.
Who is Nausikaa?
500
Homer lengthily refers to the heap of dead suitors as a "catch" of "twitching," "cold" fish, employing this common (and LONG) Greek literary device to show their pitiful state.
What is an epic simile?
500
When Aiolos gives Odysseus this to help him find home, his men stupidly open it, wasting it; when they crawl back to Aiolos and beg him for more aid, he refuses to help them, showing how cruel and tough "the real world" can be.
What is a bag of winds?
500
POP QUESTION: She is the faithful handmaiden to Penelope, an elderly sidekick who recognizes Odysseus because she raised Odysseus when he was a child.