Terms and Facts should know for Oydessus Test
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allenrkayla on February 7, 2012
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Oydesseus Test Tomorrow LAGO
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1000 B.C.E - 800 B.C.E | What years was the Oydessy said to be made? |
| Hubris | A bragging sort of personality |
| Catharsis | A release of emotion |
| Homer | Who was the author of the Oydessy? |
| Heroine addicts | What were the Lotus Eater equal to in the Oydessy? |
| Mammoth skulls | What was the equal of the Cyclops in the Oydessy? |
| Invoking the muse | When the the gods are called to help tell a story |
| denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | A word used to replace another word to persuade the audience to think in a certain way |
| Leaves Troy Sacoheans Lotus Eaters Cyclopos Circe's Island Land of the Dead Circe's Island Sirens Syclla Land of the Sun God Caylpos' Island | Name the order in which the events happened in the Oydessy. |
| Epithet | Multiple names given to a person in a story to make the story easier to tell and to remember |
| Archetypes | The same idea in stories that are repeated |
| Manifestation | The way something represented |
| Fear and Desire | What are the two reasons people write myths like the Oydessy? |
| To prove a vicarious understanding of the writing | What is the purpose of violent imagary in writing? |
| Because it did not start at the beginning, it started as a flashback as Oydessus was coming home after twenty years away | Why is the Oydessy a non-linear story? |
| Homeric Simile | Taking something that cannot be related to and describing it to something that can be related to |
| Vicarious | An indirect experience |
| A vicious whirlpool | What is Charybdis? |
| Circe | Who was the woman who turned Oydesseus men into pigs and fell in love with him after he proved himself immune? |
| Half horse half men attacking Oydesseus and his crew | Who were the Cicones? |
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