Terms
What is the message or lesson within a story or text
Theme
Who is the King of Ithaca
Odysseus
Odyssesu's homeland
Ithaca
who cursed Odysseus
Poseidon
Who brought peace to the island
What is the central problem or struggle within a story?
Who was the enchantress who turned men into pigs?
Circe
Where did Circe tell Odysseus to go
Land of the Dead
What happened to the men who ate the lotus flowers?
lose desire to return home
father of Odysseus
Laertes
What is the time and place a story occurs?
Setting
Pallas Athena
Princess Nausicaa lived on what island?
Phaeacia
Pallas Athena disguised Odysseus as a what
beggar
female monster who sucks in water three times a day to create a deadly whirlpool
Charybdis
What is the an an author describes or shows what a character is like?
Characterization
Penelope
Where did Odysseus find his father?
On the family farm
sea nymphs that have beautiful music that make sailors steet there ships into rocks
Sirens
"My name is ______"
nobody
What is the way an author describes the character through narration?
Direct Charcterization
Scylla
Telemachus went to where to talk to Menelaus and Helen?
Pylos, the city of Nestor
who did Odysseus kill first of the suitors
Antinous
How many ships did Odysseus have when he left Troy?
12