The Odyssey

Who is credited with creating The Odyssey?

• Homer

• Sophocles

• Shakespeare

• Plato

All of the following are true about Homer except:

• He is also credited with The Iliad

• He was a rhapsode

• He was blind

• He wrote between 1600 and 1700 A.D.

What is a rhapsode?

• A traveling poet who would memorize and recite poems for entertainment

• A poet who primarily writes in lyrical verses

• A traveling performer who plays various instruments

• A comedian who tells jokes through epic poetry

All of the following are elements of epic poetry EXCEPT

• Superhuman feats of strength

• Contains short speeches

• Elevated diction (fancy writing)

• Vast setting

Which element of epic poetry is being represented in the opening lines of The Odyssey: “Sing to me of the man, muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy”

• contains gods or supernatural beings

• asking for help from a muse

• epic simile

• including an unknown hero

What does in media res mean?

• "multiple forms of media"

• "beginning at the end"

• "in the middle of things"

• "missing parts of the story"

"gray-eyed Athena" is an example of a(n)

• epic simile

• epic hero

• epithet

• epitaph

“I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping --So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant's eye" is an example of a(n)

• epic simile

• epitaph

• epithet

• epic hero

The Odyssey begins at the end of

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

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The Lotus Eaters enticed the men to

• fight
• stay in their land
• turn into pigs
• mutiny against Odysseus

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