The Odyssey - Literary Devices
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The Odyssey - Literary Devices
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9th - 12th Grade
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Maria Bartlett
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
"Grey-eyed goddess"
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
"Well, would to god I’d stayed right here in my own house with a third of all that wealth and they were still alive, all who died on the wide plain of Troy those years ago, far from the stallion-land of Argos."
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
"Great glory of the Achaians"
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
“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."
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
"Or is he dead already, lost in the House of Death?"
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
"Her mind in torment, wheeling like some lion at bay, dreading the gangs of hunters closing their cunning ring around him for the finish."
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?
"Odysseus' true son"
Allusion
Epic Simile
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
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