The Odyssey Figurative Language
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9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
"Neither reply nor pity came from him,
but in one stride he clutched at my companions
and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies
to beat their brains out, spattering the floor."
Epic Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
"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."
epithet
personification
situational irony
alter ego
Tags
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"The mammoth Polyphemus roared in answer:
'Nohbdy, Nhbdy's tricked me. Nohbdy's ruined me!'"
Dramatic Irony
Epithet
Verbal Irony
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.8.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
"In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam--
the way they make soft iron hale and hard--
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike."
Imagery
Epic Simile
Allusion
Irony
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
"You never linger so,
but graze before them all, and go afar
to crop sweet grass, and take your stately way
leading along the streams, until at evening
you run to be the first one in the fold."
Imagery
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Last of them all my ram, the leader, came
weighted by wool and me with my meditations.
...
'Nohbdy will not get out alive, I swear.
Oh, had you brain and voice to tell
where he may be now, dodging my fury!
Bashed by his hand and based on this rock wall
his brains would strew the floor, and I should have
rest from the outrage Nohbdy worked upon me.'"
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Imagery
Epithet
Tags
CCSS.L.8.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"He led the way, and Pallas Athena followed into the lofty hall."
Epithet
Imagery
Personification
Alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
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