The Odyssey
Credited with telling the story The Odyssey
Homer
A concrete object that represents something abstract
Symbolism
Odysseus's home
Ithaca
MLA font and size
Times New Roman, 12 point
turned part of Odysseus's crew into pigs
Circe
The goddess who always helps Odysseus
Athena
The atmosphere or feeling the author creates
Mood
Trick Odysseus uses to save his men from the sirens' song
beeswax in the ears
Required if you quote an author's words
Citations
A long narrative poem that relates to the great deeds of a hero
An epic
The name of the Cyclops
Polyphemus
Final outcome is contradictory to what was expected
Situational Irony
Hermes gives this to Odysseus to withstand the power of Circe
a special herb called moly
What includes a Topic Sentence, Reason, Evidence/examples, Ending/conclusion
A well developed TREE paragraph
The task Penelope gives her suitors
To string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow through axe handles
The messenger god
Hermes
Message about life or people that is revealed in the story
Theme
Calypso promised this to Odysseus if he would stay on her island
Immortality
Appears as the last sentence of the intro paragraph of an essay
Thesis
Penelope's test of Odysseus
She asks him to move their bed
Gave Odysseus a ship in exchange for his story
King Alcinous
The character who creates conflict for the protagonist
The antagonist
Eating the lotus flower made Odysseus's men
Forget their homeland
Last step before turning in a writing assignment
Proofreading
Helps Odysseus in his final fight against the suitors
Athena, Telemachus and Eumaeus