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What are 20 years?
How long was Odysseus gone from Ithaca?
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Who is Athena?
Who is the "bright-eyed goddess"?
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What is Greece?
What country is Ithaca located in?
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What is the turning point of a story? What is the most intense/important part of a story?
What is a climax?
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What is wisdom?
Athena is the goddess of...
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Who is Eurycleia?
Who was Odysseus' nurse?
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What is book one?
"Sing to me of the man, muse"
What book is this quote in? |
What is the Land of the Lotus-eaters?
What is the land where Odysseus' men get poisoned by the fruit called?
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What is hubris?
What is overwhelming pride known as?
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Who is Zeus?
Who constantly gives signs to the mortals in the book?
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Who is Eumaus?
What is the name of the swineherd who is loyal to Odysseus?
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What is Repetition?
"And from there we sailed on, glad to escape our death yet sick at heart for the comrades we had lost" (Fagles 9.629-630).
What literary device is this quote? |
What is Mount Olympus?
Where do the gods gather?
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What is the creation/construction of a character?
What is characterization?
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What is the underworld?
The place where people go after death is known as...
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Who is Athena (Mentor)?
Who warns Telemachus that the suitors plan to kill him?
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Who is Odysseus?
"But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove - the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all, ... start from when you will - sing for our time too" (Fagles 1.7-12).
Who is the man who tries to save his men from disaster? |
What is Cyclops?
What species live on the same island as Polyphemus?
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What is foreshadowing?
What literary device is used to hint at an event coming up later on?
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Who is Poseidon?
Who is the god that doesn't like Odysseus?
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Who is Amphinomus?
What is the name of the suitor who Odysseus warns about the attack in the near future?
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Who is Polyphemus?
"Grant that Odysseus... never reaches home. Or if he's fated to see his people once again ... let him come home late and a broken man" (Fagles 9.588-593).
Who says this to Poseidon? |
What is Charybdis?
What is the name of the huge whirlpool that Odysseus survives?
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What is foreshadowing, epithet, metaphor, repetition, and tone?
What are all of the literary devices?
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Who are the people who lure sailors with their voices to shipwreck?
What do sirens do?
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