Literary Terms/Themes in The Odyssey

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Epithet

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Descriptive phrase for a character

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Greek hospitality example

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Menelaus feeds and houses Telemachus

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Odysseus' hubris action

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Ignored Circe's advice, fought Scylla

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Narrative Drift

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Author goes off-topic

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Example of personification

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"The Sun can never flash his rays through the dark"

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Odysseus offers a black ram to Tiresias

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Respect for the dead

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Definition: Warning of a future event

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Foreshadowing

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Disrespect for the gods

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Odysseus' men eat Helios' cattle; Zeus wrecks their ship

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Example of imagery

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"The eyeball burst - its crackling roots blazed and hissed"

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Epic/Homeric simile

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Extended comparison between two unlike things