The Cyclops: Story | The Cyclops: Lit Terms | Lit Term Review | Vocab | Miscellaneous |
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What is a wine-skin?
Odysseus brings _______________ onto Cyclops island.
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What is simile?
His eating was like that of a ravenous bear.
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What is external conflict?
A struggle between a character and an outside force.
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What is rude?
Odysseus considered the Cyclops to be IMPUDENT because Polyphemus did not show Xenia.
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What is tone?
The author's attitude or feelings toward writing.
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False
True or False: The cyclops fears the gods.
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What is metaphor?
Odysseus, the man of twists and turns... is an example.
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What is setting?
The time and place of a story.
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What is Revelry?
Odysseus and his men enjoyed the PARTY after defeating the Cyclops. The all caps word could be replaced with
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What is mood.
The reader's feeling while reading a text.
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What is Nobody?
The name Odysseus first gives the Cyclops.
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What is personification?
When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the world.
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What is internal conflict?
A struggle within a character.
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What are laborious efforts?
Odysseus and his friends go through many TRAVAILS.
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Who is Polyphemus?
The antagonist of The Cyclops.
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What is how the men escape?
Blinding the Cyclops and riding out under rams.
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What is hyperbole?
Two dozen four-wheeled wagons could not move the rock.
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What is theme?
The message the author wants the reader to understand.
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What is mutinous?
Disobeying direct orders in a military is considered ____________.
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Cleverness
Odysseus not killing the Cyclops shows his:
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What is an example of hubris/pride?
Telling the Cyclops his real name is a good example of this common hero flaw.
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What is an example of foreshadowing?
Polyphemus prays to Poseidon for Odysseus' journey home to be full of hardship and long.
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What is irony?
The use of words, plot, or knowledge to show a difference between appearance and reality.
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What is disbelief?
Odysseus stared at the whirlpool and monster before him with INCREDULITY, not wanting to make the choice that was his to make.
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What is Xenia?
The expectation of a gift or hospitality in ancient Greece.
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