Literary Devices from the text
What is the term for the recurring imagery of water throughout the novella?
What is a motif?
What does Penelope weave and unweave to delay choosing a suitor?
What is a shroud?
Which rhetorical appeal focuses on the speaker's credibility?
What is ethos?
What is it called when a writer uses vivid language to appeal to the five senses?
What is imagery?
Who is Penelope’s cousin, known for causing the Trojan War with her beauty?
Helen
When the maids call themselves "crumpled pieces of paper," what device is being used?
What is metaphor?
Who ultimately hangs Penelope's twelve maids?
Who is Telemachus?
n her speeches, Greta Thunberg is best known for using which rhetorical appeal that appeals to emotions?
What is Pathos?
What is the term for a direct or indirect reference to a well-known work, person, or event?
What is an allusion?
What mythical creature does Odysseus encounter on his journey, known for their enchanting singing voices?
Who are the Sirens?
What literary device is used when Penelope narrates her story from the underworld?
What is flashback?
What literary role do the maids take on throughout the novella?
What is a chorus?
What rhetorical technique is this statement evoking: "Scientists claim that 95% of climate change is caused by human activity, supported by decades of peer-reviewed research."
What is ethos?
What term refers to a universal symbol, theme, or character type that recurs across different cultures and literature?
What is an archetype?
In The Penelopiad, Penelope refers to Odysseus’s famous trick of hiding his men inside what object?
What is the Trojan Horse?
What literary device contrasts Helen's character with Penelope's to highlight their differences?
What is a foil?
In the “Anthropology Lecture,” the maids compare their execution to what?
What is a sacrifice?
What dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood is widely studied and involves the Republic of Gilead?
What is The Handmaid's Tale
What are the three main types of irony used in literature?
What are verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony?
What figure from Greek mythology is the father of Penelope?
Who is Icarius?
When the maids chant "We did much work, we bore much pain, we died unjustly," what structural device is being used?
What is anaphora?
Who is the king of Sparta and Helen’s husband?
Who is Menelaus?
What term describes a speech that seeks to influence decisions about the future, such as policies?
What is deliberative rhetoric?
What is the term for a deliberately harsh or offensive way of describing something, the opposite of a euphemism?
cacophemisms
Odysseus's bed, described in both The Odyssey and The Penelopiad, is made from what immovable object?
What is an olive tree?