answer: who is helios answer: who is scylla? answer: who is odysseus?
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Epithets:Do you know
who I am?
Things you need to know to understand the
Odyssey
Wild Women of
the Odyssey
There is no way that happened
Figurative Language
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100 Points Question: This writer may have
been a blind poet & rhapsode born in the 8th century, or possibly a
group of poets over hundreds of years—no one is certain.
Answer: Who is Homer?
200 Points Question:This person was given
the task of choosing “The Fairest” goddess at the wedding that
started the Trojan War.
Answer: Who is Paris?
300 Points Question: “The Wanderings” of The Odyssey are told from this
point of view.
Answer: What is First Person?
400 Points
Question:This is the strategy of starting a work in the middle
of the story.
Answer: What is in medias res?
500 Points
Question: After the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men set sail for
home; at their first stop, these people are responsible for killing a large
number of Odysseus’ men.Answer: Who are the Cicones?
400 Points
Question: This goddess was NOT invited to the wedding that eventually led to the Trojan War. Answer: Who is Eris?
500 Points
Question: The Odyssey opens with an invocation to this muse of epic
poetry.
Answer: Who is Calliope?
100 Points
Question:Hermes travels to Calypso’s island to do this.
Answer: What is order Odysseus’ release (on Zeus’ command)?
200 Points
Question: Odysseus’ men untie the bag of winds from Aeolus because
of this.
Answer: What is they think it contains treasure?
300 Points
Question: Odysseus does not want his men eating the lotus plants
because of this.
Answer: What is they cause people to lose their desire to return home?
500 Points
Question: Odysseus chooses to blind Polyphemus rather than kill
him because of this.
Answer: What is Polyphemus is the only one who can move the boulder blocking the cave’s entrance?
100 Points
Question: “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that
man skilled in all ways of contending.”
Answer: What is an invocation?
200 Points
Question:When Odysseus tells Polyphemus his name is
“Nohbdy” Answer: What is verbal irony?
500 Points
Question: “A man in a distant field, no hearth fires near
Will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers
to keep a spark alive for the next day;
so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself.”
Answer: What is a Homeric/Epic Simile?
100 Points
Question: The loyal servant who helps Odysseus defeat the suitors
Answer: Who is Eumaeus?
200 Points
Question:Phaeacian king who hosts the banquet at which Odysseus
tells of his adventures Answer: Who is Alcinous?
400 Points
Question:The lead suitor who is the first one killed by Odysseus.
Answer: Who is Antinous?