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Homer Jeopardy

Literary Devices

Question: "As the snow melts... so her white cheeks were wetted".
Answer: What is a simile?

Question: Ex. The blind have sight.
Answer: What is a paradox?

Question: "The white-armed goddess" and "the grey-eyed goddess"
Answer: What are stock epithets?

Question: "Anger, be now your song, immortal one."
Answer: What is an apostrophe?

Question: "Ah, were he but dear to the gods as he is dear to me!"
Answer: What is verbal irony?

Characters

Question: Known as "the great tactician" and "the master of many crafts".
Answer: Who is Odysseus?

Question: The son of Odysseus and Penelope.
Answer: Who is Telemakhos?

Question: Achilles prize of war stolen from him by Agamemnon.
Answer: Who is Briseis?

Question: Agamemnon is holding this persons daughter captive.
Answer: Who is Chryses?

Question: The old nurse faithful to Odysseus.
Answer: Who is Eurycleia?

Gods and Goddesses

Question: The god responsible for sending the plague amoung the Greeks.
Answer: Who is Apollo?

Question: The goddess of wisdom.
Answer: Who is Athena?

Question: The goddess who protects Odysseus.
Answer: Who is Athena?


Question: He is known as "the wayfinder"
Answer: Who is Hermes?

Question: The son of Cronus.
Answer: Who is Zeus?

Plot

Question: The Queen of Ithaca whom the suitors wish to marry.
Answer: Who is Penelope?

Question: What does Odysseus return to Ithaka as.
Answer: Who is a beggar?

Question: The name of Odysseus' loyal dog who dies by his side when he returns to Ithaca.
Answer: Who is Argos?

Question: The golden apple is ultimately awarded to this person.
Answer: Who is Aphrodite?

Question: Achilles friend who wore Achilles armor and was killed by Hector.
Answer: Who is Patroclus?

Miscellaneous

Question: The husband of Helen.
Answer: Who is Menelaus?

Question: The goddess that the golden apple is rewarded to.
Answer: Who is Aphrodite?

Question: The amount of time the Trojan war has been going on for when the story begins.
Answer: What is 9 years?

Question: The eagle symbolzes someone in Penelopes dream.
Answer: Who is Odysseus?

Question: The generation that came after the first parents.
Answer: Who are the Titans?