Vocabulary
What is a giant creature with one eye called?
What is a cyclops?
what Odysseus and his men use to blind the cyclops
What is a hot pointed mast (large piece of wood)?
What does Odysseus offer Cyclops to drink?
What is wine?
What do the Cyclopes think about Zeus and the gods?
They don't fear them and think they are stronger
What is a simile?
Comparing something to another thing by using "like" or "as"
What is a male sheep with horns called?
What is a ram?
How the Cyclops closes the cave entrance
What is with a giant rock?
What did Odysseus tell Cyclops his name was at first?
What is nohbody?
When Cyclops prays to Poseidon, what does he pray for?
That Odysseus doesn't get home and that he will loose all his men.
What information is given to the audience in the EXPOSITION on the plot diagram?
Setting, characters, background info, and the conflict
What is a female sheep called in the story?
An ewe
Who is Cyclops father?
Who is Poseidon?
How did Odysseus and his men get out of the cave?
What is tying themselves underneath the sheep?
How many years was Odysseus away from Ithica?
What is the CONFLICT of a story?
The problem, the thing the main character is trying to overcome.
What are stories that express a culture's beliefs or explain natural phenomenon called?
What are myths?
What is the total number of Odysseus's men the cyclops eats?
What is 6?! Yummmmm
Who is Odysseus' mentor?
Who is Athena
How did the Greeks get into the city of Troy?
What is the The Trojan Horse?
The CLIMAX of a story is when ____________.
The main character faces or solves the conflict.
What type of writing is a long narrative poem where protagonist goes on a long journey?
What is an epic?
What is the name of the cyclops?
What is Polyphemus?
What was the foolish thing Odysseus did before leaving the cyclops?
What is bragging and telling the monster his name.
What was the Trojan War fought over? What started the war?
The Trojan prince Paris stole someone's wife.
What was the THEME of "The Cyclops"?
The consequences of pride or arrogance.