"The Odyssey" Review

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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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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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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The Odyssey begins at the end of

• The Trojan War
• The Civil War
• The Greek War

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Odysseus has angered

• Poseidon
• Athena
• Hades
• Zeus

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The cyclops was the son of

• Athena
• Circe
• Artemis
• Poseidan

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By bragging about his name, Odysseus displayed the fatal flaw of

• cowardice
• gluttony
• pride
• envy

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He strung his bow and shot through the ax handles to

• Prove who he was
• Scare off the suitors
• Impress his son
• Impress his wife

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