The Odyssey

a story told many times that serves to explain something about the world or a historical event

• epic
• myth
• invocation
• rhapsode

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a long comparison of two unlike things

• myth
• rhapsode
• epic simile
• metaphor

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a long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero

• homeric simile
• epic
• invocation
• muse

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in the first part of a story when the speaker asks for help from the gods

• muse
• homeric simile
• liturgy
• invocation

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He was the blind teller of tales who first recorded The Iliad and The Odyssey

• Circe
• Homer
• Telemachus
• the Muse

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She had twelve tentacles and six heads that stole men from their ships as they sailed by.

• Cyclops
• Calypso
• Scylla
• Penelope

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She loved Odysseus but allowed him to leave when Zeus demanded it.

• Scylla
• Charybdis
• Penelope
• Calypso

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He received no help from his relatives because he was awkward with words after Odysseus gave a fake name.

• Circe
• Charybdis
• Teiresias
• Polyphemus

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She devised a difficult task for some troublesome men to do.

• Calypso
• Penelope
• Circe
• Muse

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"The man skilled in all ways of contending" is an example of this literary device.

• invocation
• ambition
• liturgy
• epithet

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