Literary Terms
A long, detailed comparison using "like" or "as"
What is an Epic Simile?
The king of the gods; god of thunder and the skies; enforcer of the "hospitality rule"
Who is Zeus?
The Greek island to which Odysseus strives to return after the Trojan War
What is Ithaca?
List three ways Odysseus tricked the cyclops
What is telling him his name was Nohbdy?
What is getting him drunk with his strong wine so he could blind him?
What is sneaking out of the cave while being tied up to the belly side of the sheep?
The two challenges given to the suitors to prove themselves worthy of marrying Penelope (name both in the order in which they appear)
What is stringing the bow?
What is shoot an arrow through 12 ax heads?
A reference to a well-known or historic event, person, or place
What is an Allusion?
Name Odysseus' wife and son
Who is Penelope and Telemachus?
The plant that Odysseus' men consume that causes them to want to stay and never return home
What is the Lotus Flower?
Name of the enchantress who turns Odysseus' men into swine; holds Odysseus on her island for one year
Who is Circe?
Odysseus' disguised himself as a beggar when he arrives on his island of Ithaca. Which three characters know the true identity of the "beggar"?
Who is Telemachus, Eumaeus, the swineherd, and Philetious, the cowherd?
Name two EPITHETS used by Homer to describe Odysseus
What is raider of cities?
What is O' great contender?
What is master mariner and soldier?
What is Laertes' son and the gods of old?
What is Prince or Captain?
the most likely author of both The Iliad and The Odyssey
Who is Homer?
Odysseus was gone for ____________ years fighting the Trojan War and _____________ years trying to return to Ithaca.
What is 10 years and 10 years?
the place the enchantress tells Odysseus he must go to if he wants to make it home alive
What is the Land of the Dead?
What is the Underworld?
What is the Home of Death (Hades) and Pale Persephone?
Odysseus' greatest heroic quality is his ________, whereas his greatest weaknesses is ___________.
What is his GUILE/craftiness/cleverness?
What is his ARROGANCE/cockiness?
A long narrative poem of a hero's adventure is known as a _____________________?
What is an EPIC?
The God of winds; gave Odysseus a special tool to help him and his men get back to Ithaca
Who is Aelous?
The fallen goddess who falls in love with and holds Odysseus on her island for seven years until Zeus sends her a command to release him
Who is Calypso?
The three various monsters of the seas that Odysseus and his men face (all 3 in the order in which they appear)
Who are the Sirens?
Who is Scylla?
Who is Charybdis?
Name of the suitor who is killed first by Odysseus and is then blamed for the wrongdoings of ALL the suitors by Eurymachus
Who is Antinous?
Stories, such as The Odyssey and The Iliad, were performed by a __________________ and were passed down orally from generation to generation through __________________ _______________.
What is a RHAPSODE and ORAL TRADITION?
King of Phaecia, who took Odysseus back home to Ithaca
Who is King Alcinous?
The name of the cyclops that entraps Odysseus and his men inside his cave; the cyclops' father is the god Poseidon
Who is Polyphemus?
Threatens to take away the sun and shine it among the dead in the Underworld if the king of the gods does not punish Odysseus' men for eating his cattle
Who is Helios, the Sun God?
To ensure Odysseus is her long, lost husband and not an impostor, Penelope tests him by ______________.
What is she tells him his bed has been moved, which is impossible because it was made by Odysseus early in their marriage out of an olive tree that was growing from the ground?