The Odyssey

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

• epic
• myth
• invocation
• rhapsode

A long comparison of two unlike things.

• myth
• rhapsode
• Homeric or epic simile
• metaphor

A long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero.

• homeric simile
• epic
• invocation
• muse

In the first part of a story when the speaker prays for help from the gods.

• muse
• homeric simile
• liturgy
• invocation

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

• Circe
• Homer
• Telemachus
• the Muse

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

• Cyclops
• Calypso
• Scylla
• Penelope

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

• Scylla
• Charybdis
• Penelope
• Calypso

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

• Calypso
• Penelope
• Circe
• Muse

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

• invocation
• ambition
• liturgy
• epithet

A reflection and record of the basic values and social institutions of a society.

• homeric similes
• myths
• narratives
• exposition