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RugglesOdyssey
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31
English
9th Grade
04/14/2011

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The diety who is sent by Zeus to tell Calypso to set Odysseus free
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Hermes
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Deity who shows Odysseus no mercy
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Poseidon
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The deity who started the fight on Mt Olympus that began the Trojan War
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Eris
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Deity referred to as "the lord of cloud"
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Zeus
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Deity known as "the gray-eyed one"
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Athena
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Greek woman whose "face launched a thousand ships"
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Helen
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Deity known as "the earth shaker"
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Poseidon
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Deity known as the "foam risen one"
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Aphrodite
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The epithet "master of landways and seaways" and "master mariner and sailer"
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Odysseus
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Calypso's island
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Ogigya
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Circe's island
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Aeae
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Aeolus' island
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Aeolia
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Island from which Odysseus tells of his adventures
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Phaecia
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Odysseus' homeland
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Ithaca
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Home of Menelaus and Helen
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Sparta
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Odysseus' faithful cowherd
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Philoteus
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Odysseus' faithful swineherd
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Eumaus
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King Nestor's island
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Pylos
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Odysseus' soldier who he sees in the Underworld.  (He got drunk and fell off Circe's roof.)
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Elpenor
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Most handsome mortal man--Zeus appointed him to be the judge of the fairest goddess contest.
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Paris
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Blind prophet who warns Odysseus not to kill the cattle of Helios
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Tiresias
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author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Homer
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Which literary term is being used in the following:

 

Odysseus heard the sheep "bleating."

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Onomatopoeia
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Which literary term is being used in the following?

 

"When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose touche the world"

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Personification
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Which type of irony is being used

when Odysseus is disguised as the beggar and speaks with Penelope?

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Dramatic
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Odysseus' mother
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Anticlea
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Odysseus' cowherd who helps defeat the suitors
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Philoteus
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Circe turns all of Odysseus' men into this
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Swine
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Odysseus does not tell his men about the dangers of this creature
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Scylla
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This princess finds Odysseus washed up on the shore while she and her maids are washing clothes
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Nausicaa
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This is Odysseus' faithful dog
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Argus
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