Literary Terms
The main character in a story (Odysseus)
What is protagonist
A monstrous whirlpool that swallows the sea
Who is Charybdis?
The reason why Odysseus lies and tells the cyclops his name is Nobdy.
What is to confuse the cyclops when he calls for help.
The reason Odysseus left Troy.
What is the war had ended?
Makes you forget your desire to go home and stay forever.
What is the Lotus flower?
When a second story is told in the middle of another one, and then ends, then the first story resumes.
What is a frame story?
The father of Polyphemus, the cyclops.
Who is Poseidon?
The way Odysseus responds to his men eating the lotus flower.
What is tying them down to the ship?
The mistake Odysseus's men make on the island of the Cicones.
What is disobeying orders and celebrating too long?
The consequence of Odysseus revealing his true name to Polyphemus
What is being cursed by Poseidon?
The reason The Odyssey is considered a frame story
What is Odysseus telling his story to King Alcinous.
The goddess of storytelling; Homer asks her for help in the invocation of the Odyssey
Who is the Muse?
What does Odysseus's do when his pride gets the best of him after escaping from the cyclops's cave
What is revealing his true name and taunting?
The false name Odyssey gives the cyclops when in his cave.
Who is Nobdhy?
The consequence for eating Helios, the sun god's, cows.
What is Zeus striking the men with lightning?
The literary term for starting "in the middle" of the action?
What is "in medias res"
Odysseus meets this prophet in the Land of the Dead (underworld).
Who is Tiresias?
The reason Odysseus and his men enter the cyclops's cave.
What is curiosity and hope for gifts?
In the cyclops's cave, Odysseus and his men blind Polyphemus with this.
What is a sharpened olive tree branch?
Why doesn't Odysseus stop his men from eating Helio's cows?
What is he fell asleep.
Hints throughout the story that tell readers something will happen in the future (like the men eating the cows)
What is foreshadowing
Gives the advice that the men avoid hearing the Siren's song and Odysseus hears it by being tied to the mast of the ship.
Who is Circe?
The first time readers learn Odysseus will return home with none of his men left
What is the Invocation?
The way Odysseus and his men make it past the sirens.
Plugging men's ears with beeswax and Odysseus being tied to the mast
The ironic thing about Teiresias.
What is he is a blind prophet who can see the future but can't see in front of himself