1. Jeopardy Review Game The Odyssey Part I
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Jeopardy Review Game
The Odyssey Part I

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3. King of Ithaca

4. Who is Odysseus?

5. Odysseus’s son

6. Who is Telemachus?

7. He allows Odysseus to tell his tale to his court

8. Who is King Alcinous?

9. Messenger to the gods

10. Who is Hermes?

11. Odysseus’s father

12. Who is Laertes?

13. God of the sea; father of Polyphemus

14. Who is Poseidon?

15. Daughter of Zeus; friend to Odysseus

16. Who is Athena?

17. They lure sailors to their destruction with song

18. Who are the Sirens?

19. 6-headed monster who snatches up six men

20. Who is Scylla?

21. The personification of a whirlpool

22. Who is Charybdis?

23. Some of Odysseus’s men forget their homeland while visiting this land

24. What is Land of the Lotus Eaters?

25. On Aeaea, this witch turns men into pigs

26. Who is Circe?

27. The people on this land are plundered by Odysseus but get their revenge when his men party too long

28. What is Cicones?

29. Cannibals who eat all the men except for Odysseus and his crew

30. Who is Laestrygonians?

31. Island of Calypso

32. What is the island of Ogygia?

33. “Nohbdy tricked me” is an example of this.

34. What is verbal irony?

35. “…so just as Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the windy world …” is an example of this.

36. What is personification?

37. ”A man surf-casting on a point of rock for a bass or mackerel, whipping his long rod to drop the sinker and bait far out, will hook a fish and rip it from the surface to dangle, wriggling through the air ” is an example of this.

38. What is a Homeric simile?

39. Cyclop’s curse on Odysseus is an example of this.

40. What is foreshadowing?

41. “In a smithy one sees a white-hot axhead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screaching steam—the way they make soft iron hard …” is an example of this.

42. What is Homeric simile?

43. Excessive pride and arrogance like Odysseus has

44. What is hubris?

45. The goddess who kept Odysseus captive for 5-7 years

46. Who is Calypso?

47. Asking for assistance to tell a story

48. What is an invocation?

49. One of the prophecies told by this blind prophet is that all of Odysseus’s men will die

50. Who is Teiresias?

51. Helios threatens to do this if Odysseus’s men are not punished.

52. What is go down to light the underworld forever?