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The Odyssey

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  • "Riding the waves like a seagull hunting fish" is an example of which type of literary device?
    simile
  • Odysseus feared going here more than any other challenge he faced
    Land of the Dead
  • Who is sent to tell Callypso to free Odysseus?
    Hermes
  • Penelope tells suitors she cannot remarry until _________________.
    She weaves a shroud for her father in law
  • How did Penelope trick her would be suitors?
    undoing at night what she had woven during the day
  • Odysseus sat on the shore and ______ for his family year after year (yearned)
    pined
  • Odysseus was stuck on the island belonging to __________.
    Calypso
  • What is "flotsam?"
    debris, wood floating on the ocean
  • to stagger means ________________________________
    to stumble; plod
  • ________ who spoke before Zeus now becomes Odysseus' strongest mentor
    Athene
  • Circe can be said to change from a ____________ to a _______ archetype.
    threshold guardian to a mentor
  • This goddess intervened to Zeus for Odysseus.
    Athene
  • What is a monomyth?
    a hero's journey