When the author replaces a character's name with a descriptive phrase like, "the swift runner."
What is epithet
100
A kind of story that is common to many cultures, when the hero goes on a journey to try to achieve a goal, often to attain on object or immortality.
What is a quest journey?
100
The man who argues with Achilles; a king.
Who is Agamemnon?
100
Hector's wife
Who is Andromache?
100
The old majestic king of Troy
Who is Priam?
200
The literary device used in the following excerpt, "But Achilles bounded out the doors like a lion."
What is a simile?
200
The main character in a ____ poem who usually embodies the values of his/her culture.
What is an epic hero?
200
Agamemnon's war prize.
Who is Chryseis?
200
The god who helps Priam enter the Greek camps secretly and later helps Priam return back to Troy.
Who is Hermes?
300
The literary device seen in the following excerpt, "...moved to his feet and slaughtered a white sheep as comrades moved in to skin the carcass quickly..."
What is a symbol?
300
A defect that usually brings the hero to his downfall or contributes to his downfall.
What is a tragic flaw?
300
Achilles' tragic flaw.
What is rage or wrath?
300
The goddess who aids Achilles and tricks Hector
Who is Athena?
300
The action taken to avoid Priam getting angry from seeing the state of Hector's body which could make Achilles himself "Fly into fresh rage."
What is cleaning the body or anointing the body?
400
The literary device used in the excerpt, "Dawn flung out her golden robe across the earth, and the two men weeping..."
What is personification?
400
a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).
What is monomyth.
400
God of the silver bow.
Who is Apollo?
400
Achilles best friend, whose armor Hector stole and wore.
Who is Patroclus?
400
Achilles' father, the man who Achilles grieves over with Priam in Book 24.
Who is Peleus?
500
The poetic device used in the excerpt, "Time to rest, to enjoy the sweet relief of sleep."
What is assonance?
500
The moment of the hero's journey that's considered "the moment of realization" where the hero receives divine knowledge. With this new understanding, the hero is ready for the more difficult part of the journey.
What is apotheosis?
500
The old mentor of the Greek army.
Who is Nestor?
500
The place where Andromache tells Hector to "draw" his armies, the weak spot of Troy where Hector and Achilles later battle in Book 22.
What is fig tree?
500
A device such as a repeated number through out literature. For example, "on the tenth the gods of heaven interred them."