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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Literary Terms
Odyssey 1
Odyssey 2
100
a simile with lots of details in the object of comparison
What is epic simile?
100
Holds Odysseus hostage for 7 years
Who is Calypso?
100
goddess of war and wisdom
Who is Athena?
200
horribly
What is abominably?
200
a story in which the events are not told in order
What is a nonlinear plot?
200
Turns Odysseus' men into pigs
Who is Circe?
200
a danger that keeps haunting Odysseus and his men
What is losing desire for home?
300
bothered or bullied
What is harried?
300
a stereotypical character that occurs again and again throughout time
What is archetype?
300
half-bird, half-woman creatures that "sing men's minds away"
What are Sirens?
300
men who try to marry Penelope
Who are the suitors?
400
an adventure
What is an exploit?
400
enemy or rival
What is adversary?
400
a phrase that is used as a nickname or name; for example: "the wine-dark sea"
What is an epithet?
400
a creature with 6 dog heads; lives in a cave
What is the Scylla?
400
Antinuous and Eurymachus
Who are the worst suitors?
500
historical records
What is annals?
500
painful effort
What is travail?
500
contains instances of divine intervention, bad weather, strange creatures, and large-scale events
What is an epic plot?
500
a sea creature that is a giant whirlpool of water; three times a day it sucks water in and spits it out
What is the Charybdis?
500
an olive tree
What is one post of Odysseus' bed?