Character | Vocabulary | Plot | Random | Character actions/ Literary techniques |
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Who is Odysseus
Who completed stringing the bow?
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What is Commandeer
what is to take control of by force
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What is Ithaca
What place did Odysseus return to?
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What are 12 axes
How may axes did the arrow have to shoot through?
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What is a thunder strike
What sign from Zeus indicates that the gods are on Odysseus' side?
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Who is Penelope
Who Retrieves Odysseus's bow from a hidden storeroom?
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What is Justification
What is an explication or an excuse for an action?
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What are 100 suitors
About how many suitors wanted to marry Penelope and take over Odysseus" fortune?
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What are humiliation, shame, and embarrassment
How did the men feel about not succeeding?
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What is to shoot his own bow.
What did Odysseus want to try?
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Who is Athena, puts her to sleep
Who helps Penelope when she weeps for Odysseus and how does this character do so?
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What is Dithering
What is Acting in a nervous or uncertain way?
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Who was his son Telemachus
Who was Odysseus first reunited with when he returned to Ithaca?
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What is to bend the heavy bow and string it, and then shooting the arrow through 12 axes
What were the two parts to winning the contest?
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What is imagery
"poised to try the bow but failed to bend it. As soon as he tugged the string his hand went slack" is a form of what literary technique?
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Who is Iphitus
Who gives Odysseus his bow?
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What is gall
What is Scornful boldness?
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What is nervousness
What does everybody feel when Odysseus is handed the bow?
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what is anger, rage
How did the suitors react when Odysseus asked for a try at the bow?
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What is personification
"Wonder took the revelers looking on" is a form of what literary technique?
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Who is Eumaeus
One of Odysseus' most trusted servants whom he reveals his identity.
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What is Plunder
What is to rob of property by force?
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What is in a crowded hall
Where does the archery contest take place?
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What is obey
How does Penelope react to her son telling her to go to her bedroom?
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What is showing the scar on his foot
How does Odysseus reveal himself?
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