Ordinary World
Odysseus' clever wife who remained faithful to him
Who is Penelope?
These creatures sing songs that lure sailors to their deaths.
What are sirens?
An infinitive is a verb proceeded by this word.
What is "to"?
This character in an epic poem embodies the traits valued by the society that produced the epic.
What is an epic hero?
When the author tells the audience exactly what a character is like, they are using this kind of characterization.
What is direct?
This "rocky isle" is Odysseus' home, of which he is king.
What is Ithaca?
This son of Poseidon is blinded by Odysseus with a tree sharpened into a pike.
Who is Polyphemus?
This type of textual evidence restates the text in the writer's own words and does not use quotation marks.
What is a paraphrase?
What is in media res?
What are 1st and 3rd person?
In order to have a greater emotional impact, Homer ignores biology and makes this dog live for more than twenty years in order to see his master Odysseus return. He dies immediately after.
Who is Argus?
This deity represents strategic warfare and is Odysseus' supernatural aid and wise mentor.
Who is Athena?
This poetic device is the use of sensory language to provide rich description of a scene.
What is imagery?
This poem at the beginning of an epic calls upon the aid of a god or goddess in telling the story.
What is an invocation?
An example of this type of irony is seen when Odysseus sleeps as his crew kills and eats the cattle of the sun god.
What is dramatic?
Odysseus is reunited during the "atonement" phase of the story, with this character, his now twenty year old son.
Who is Telemachus?
Odysseus chooses to sail past Scylla, a six headed monster who only kills six of his crew, rather than this giant whirlpool.
What is Charybdis?
This sentence of an informative or argumentative essay summarizes the central idea of the entire piece.
What is a thesis statement?
This is a title that renames a character. Examples of this may include, "Father of gods and men," for Zeus.
What is an epithet?
When writing a parenthetical in-text citation, this always goes before the page number.
What is the author's last name?
This most "black-hearted" of the suitors throws a stool at Odysseus shoulder.
Who is Antinous?
This prophet resides in the Land of the Dead, and tells Odysseus and his crew not to eat the Cattle of Lord Helios.
Who is Tiresias?
This is a reference to another famous work within a story or poem. The reader must understand this reference in order to understand the theme.
What is an allusion?
What is elevated language?
"The Odyssey" is a classic example of "The Hero's Journey", also known as this.
What is the monomyth?