unit 3 test study guide/review
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Unit 3 Test Study Guide/Review. Odysseus is the epic hero in the Greek epic called The Odyssey . Achilles is the epic hero in the Greek epic called The Illiad. Andre the Giant. Zeus, son of Cronos. The bewitching nymph, Calypso. Odysseus, the man of twists and turns. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Epic Hero The epic hero has larger-than-life powers, but is not perfect due to a flaw. This hero has to complete a long journey and is faced with many trials and tribulations along the way.
Epithet A description that often accompanies someone’s name.
Literary Term
Definition Example
Odysseus is the epic hero in the Greek epic called The Odyssey. Achilles is the epic hero in the Greek epic called The Illiad.
Andre the Giant
Odysseus, the man of twists and turns
The bewitching nymph, Calypso
Cool-headed Telemachus
Zeus, son of Cronos
Homeric SimileHomer loves similes and they can be found everywhere in the Odyssey. Homer often expands upon a simile, putting it into motion so to speak; and these expanded similes are called Homeric or epic similes.
“Weak as the doe that beds down her fawns in a mighty lion's den . . . but back the lion comes to his own lair and the master deals both fawns a ghastly, bloody death, just what Odysseus will deal that mob - ghastly death.”
How do we know it’s a simile?What is Homer comparing?
Literary Term
Description Example
The doe putting her fawn in danger is like Odysseus putting his men in danger.
Extended Metaphor
a metaphor that continues over several lines of poetry
Will Ferrell's Extended Metaphor: The University of Life"I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That’s the kind of school I went to for real, okay?"(Will Ferrell, Commencement Address at Harvard University, 2003)
Literary Term
Description Example
Personification animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given character, traits, abilities, or reactions
“Dawn spread on the eastern sky/ her fingers of pink light”
"East and South Winds clashed, and the raging West and North/sprung from the heavens, roiled heaving breakers up."
Hyperbole
Literary Term
Description Example
human
exaggerated language that distorts facts by making them much bigger than they are. Think of “Your Mama” jokes
Odysseus states: “My son, my son, the unluckiest man alive!'"
Foreshadowingprovides early ________ about where the plot is headed. It is a storytelling technique that gets viewers involved and thinking about the plot unfolding before them because they are picking up hints about what may soon happen.
The foreboding that Odysseus feels as he heads toward the Cyclops's cave, which seems to prompt him to take the wine along, foreshadows his upcoming encounter with Polyphemus and the need for trickery to prevail.
Literary Term
Description Example
clues
“Of this wine I filled a great wineskin full . . . for my proud heart had an idea that presently I would encounter a man who was endowed with great strength, and wild . . .
In Media Res To begin in the ___________ of a story; tells how the character got to where he/she is
Iron Man – the movie showed what happened the 36 hours prior
Odysseus tells King Alcinous about all the islands that he encountered before he can go home to Penelope
Theme What the author wants to say about the human experience.
The Odyssey emphasizes the themes of adventure, brains over brawn, loyalty, familial love, perseverance, etc.
Flashback interrupting the chronological order of a story and telling something that occurred earlier in time
This occurs when Odysseus tells his stories of adventure to King Alcinous of the Phaeacians at the beginning of the poem.
Literary Term
Description Example
middle
NarrativeDescriptiveExpositoryPersuasive
Tells a storyUses characters, dialogueHas a plot with a climax and
resolution Beginning Middle End
Describes in great detailUses the five senses
Taste Smell Touch Sight Hearing
Explains something to the readerMay include directions or “how to”
informationMay explain why or how
something was doneHistory books and science books and
math books contain expository writing
Convinces the reader to do something or believe a certain way
Commercials are persuasive writingPoliticians’ speeches are persuasive
writingLetters to government officials or
businesses may be persuasive writing
a. narrativeb. descriptivec. expositoryd. persuasive
a. narrativeb. descriptivec. expositoryd. persuasive
a. narrativeb. descriptivec. expositoryd. persuasive
a. narrativeb. descriptivec. expositoryd. persuasive
Loyal son of Odysseus
Was a baby when Odysseus left for Troy Helps his father fight against the suitors
One of Penelope’s suitorsVery arrogantFirst to be killed
King of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War
Is away from home for 20 years
In order to enter his home undetected, Athena turns him into a begger
Messenger of the gods
Protects Odysseus from Circe’s honey wine
Faithful wife of Odysseua
Holds off the suitors by weaving a shroud
Odysseus sought him out in Hades for a prophecy
Blind prophet
Cyclopes that Odysseus and his men blind
Goddess who turns crewmen of Odysseus into animals
Tells Odysseus where to find the blind prophet Tiresias.