The Odyssey Part One

"When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose

lit up the world, the Cyclops built a fire

and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order."

This is an example of:

• epithet

• personification

• situational irony

• alter ego

This line from Book 1 introduces which of the following themes, "You need not bear this insolence of theirs, you are a child no longer"?

• A boy must struggle to become a man.

• A soldier must struggle to get home from war.

• A queen must use wit to stay faithful.

• A king must struggle to reclaim his kingdom.

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What is the purpose of these lines?

"By heaven! when she

vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron

seething over intense fire, when the mixture

suddenly heaves and rises."

• To compare Charybdis to a cooking pot boiling over and help the audience make a connection to an ordinary event.

• To use sensory language to help the audience be in the moment of sailing beside Charybdis.

• To introduce the idea of vulnerability that the sailors feel sailing beside Charybdis.

• To display the violence in the moment of Charybdis being sick through the human characteristic of vomiting.

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An epic hero embodies the values of the civilization. Odysseus portrays of the following values EXCEPT

• Bravery

• Intelligence

• Hospitality

• Leadership

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"In the wild wood they found an open glade,

around a smooth stone house--the hall of Circe"

• Allusion

• Personification

• Epithet

• Alliteration

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An epic is a narrative __________ that tells a story in verse and is usually taken from history or legend.

• story

• poem

• play

• hyperbole

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The Odyssey begins "in media res" which means this tale starts ______________.

• at the end

• in a little boy's dream

• at the beginning

• in the middle of things

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What are "extended comparisons that go on for several lines"?

• epic simile

• rhapsode

• epithet

• metaphor

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Which of the following is "a plea to the Muse for inspiration to tell the tale"?

• xenia

• hubris

• in media res

• invocation

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An epic hero is a character of great strength and courage who undertakes a difficult _______________.

• sport

• journey

• person

• assignment

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