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The Odyssey Part I

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HumansGods andCreatures

LandsLiteraryDevices

Potluck

King of Ithaca

Who is Odysseus?

Odysseus’s son

Who is Telemachus?

He allows Odysseus to tell

his tale to his court

Who is King Alcinous?

He convinces Odysseus’s men to eat the Sun God’s cattle

Who is Eurylochus?

Odysseus’s father

Who is Laertes?

God of the sea;father of

Polyphemus

Who is Poseidon?

Daughter of Zeus; friend to

Odysseus

Who is Athena?

They lure sailors to their

destruction with song

Who are the Sirens?

6-headed monster who snatches up

six men

Who is Scylla?

The personification of a whirlpool

Who is Charybdis?

Some of Odysseus’s men

forget their homeland while visiting this land

What is Land of the Lotus Eaters?

On Aeaea, this witch turns men

into pigs

Who is Circe?

The people on this land are plundered by Odysseus but get their revenge

when his men party too long

What is Cicones?

The home of King Alcinous

What is Phaecia?

Giant cannibals inhabit this land

What is the Land of Laestrygonians?

“Nohbdy tricked me” is an example

of this.

What is verbal irony?

“…so just as Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the windy world …” is

an example of this.

What is personification?

”A man surf-casting on a point of rock for a bass or

mackerel, whipping his long rod to drop the sinker and bait far out, will hook a fish

and rip it from the surface to dangle, wriggling through the

air ”is an example of this.

What is a Homeric simile?

Cyclop’s curse on Odysseus is an example of this.

What is foreshadowing?

“In a smithy one sees a white-hot axhead or an

adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screaching

steam—the way they make soft iron hard …”is an example of this.

What is Homeric simile?

The island of the Sun god

What is Thrinakia?

The goddess who kept Odysseus captive for 7

years

Who is Calypso?

Odysseus telling Cyclops his real

name is an example of this character trait

What is hubris?

One of the prophecies told by this blind prophet

is that all of Odysseus’s men

will die

Who is Teiresias?

Helios threatens to do this if

Odysseus’s men are not punished.

What is go down to light the underworld forever?