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Vocabulary
People, Places, and Things
Literary Devices
Sailing from Troy to Scylla and Charbdyis
Cattle of the Sun God to Penelope's Test
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The definition of the word "Mutinous".
What is rebellious?
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Hero of the story. Away from home for twenty-years.
Who is Odysseus.
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The Odyssey is this type of poem--a long narrative poem about a famous hero and their journey.
What is an Epic poem.
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This happens to the sailors when they eat the Lotus Plant.
What is the sailors forget about everything and never want to leave the island.
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Odysseus tells Telemachus that he will kill the suitors. This is how Telemachus reacts and why.
What is hesitant because his father does not know how many men are waiting for them.
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A large, powerful, violent storm, or whirlpool.
What is a "Maelstrom".
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The head suitor trying to win Penelope's heart while Odysseus is away.
Who is Antinous.
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Comparing two things using the words like or as.
What is Simile?
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The first thing Homer does before the story even begins.
What is pray to the god Muse that he tell the story well.
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This is how Penelope has kept the suitors from trying to marry her for many years.
What is weaving a funeral shroud and undoing it each night.
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Fairness. Justice.
What is Equity.
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The blind prophet who Odysseus travels to the Underworld to find.
Who is Tiresias?
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The hint an author provides to build suspense and show possibilities for the future.
What is Foreshadowing.
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This is why Odysseus does not kill the Cyclops right away.
What is the Cyclops rolled the boulder in behind him.
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After Antinous throws the stool, Odysseus tells him a few things. Most importantly, he tells him this.
What is Antinous will be dead before he marries.
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The definition of "bemusing"
What is stupefying or muddling.
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Where is Odysseus from?
What is Ithaca?
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What is Characterization?
What is creating a realistic character through details, thoughts, words, and actions.
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This is why Odyssey brings the ram and ewe with him to The Land of the Dead.
What is to sacrifice them to Tiresias so he will help them on their journey.
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This is what Odysseus tells Penelope when he is a beggar and asking him for the story he has of Odysseus.
What is it is too painful to tell.
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If someone says, "I am fed up with these ruses!" They are fed up with....
What are tricks?
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Odysseus's father's name.
Who is Laertes?
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Any and all language not meant to be taken literally.
What is Figurative Language.
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The Cyclops father and the god who punishes Odysseus.
What is Poseidon.
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This is how Penelope knows for a fact that Odysseus is actually Odysseus.
What is Odysseus knows how his bed was made and that no one could move it?