1. THE ODYSSEY The story of a family reunited against all odds

2. I. EPIC POEM-A LONG NARRATIVE POEM a.Cannot be told in one sitting b.Complex, usually revolves around more than one character, spanning many years

3. II. AN EPIC HERO -A MAN WHO SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO CONQUER MOST PROBLEMS HE ENCOUNTERS ALTHOUGH HE DOES NOT HAVE “SUPER POWERS” a.He is faithful to his family, country and god b.He is brave although he often feels fear c.His main responsibility is to defeat evil d.The Epic Hero is intelligent he relies on his brain.

4. HOMER- THE AUTHOR OF THE ODYSSEY a.Believed to be a blind minstrel 1.Minstrel-a storyteller b. Also wrote the Illiad 1. The Illiad told the story of Odysseus’ participation in the Trojan War

5. THE TROJAN WAR-WAR BETWEEN TROY AND SPARTA (GREECE) a.Greeks went to war to free Helen from Paris, the king of Troy b.Helen was believed to be the most beautiful mortal woman and was the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta (Greece) c.The war spanned 10 Years d.Odysseus won the war by devising the Trojan Horse 1. The Trojan horse was a gift sent to Troy by the Greeks as a sign of surrender. The Trojans did not know that many Greeks were hiding in the huge horse as they wheeled it into the city walls. That night the Greeks came out and defeated Troy.

6. LITERARY TERMS 1. 1.ALLUSION: A reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. Allusions can originate in mythology, biblical references, historical events, or legends. 2. 2.APOSTROPHE: Not to be confused with the punctuation mark, apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present 3. 3.EPITHET: A short, poetic nickname in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase attached to the normal name. The Homeric epithet in classical literature often includes compounds of two words such as, "fleet-footed Achilles,

7. LITERARY DEVICES CONT. 4. Metaphor 5. 5.Simile 6. 6.Personification 7. HYPERBOLE: An extreme exaggeration: "His thundering shout could split rocks." 8. EPIC SIMILE: A formal and sustained simile. Like a regular simile, an epic simile makes a comparison between one object and another using "like" or "as." However, unlike a regular simile, which appears in a single sentence, the epic simile appears in the genre of the epic and it may be developed at great length, often up to fifty or a hundred lines.similegenre

8. LITERARY TERMS CONT. Alliteration- Assonance- Consonance- Mood Tone

9. POETIC LITERARY TERMS Stanza Rhyme Scheme Meter Couplet Quatrain Refrain