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Literary Term Epic Hero Epithet Definition The epic hero has largerthan-life powers, but is not perfect due to a flaw. This hero has to complete a long journey and is faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. A description that often accompanies someone’s name. Example Odysseus is the epic hero in the Greek epic called The Odyssey. Achilles is the epic hero in the Greek epic called The Illiad. Andre the Giant Zeus, son of Cronos The bewitching nymph, Calypso Odysseus, the man of twists and turns Cool-headed Telemachus Literary Term Homeric Simile Description Homer loves similes and they can be found everywhere in the Odyssey. Homer often expands upon a simile, putting it into motion so to speak; and these expanded similes are called Homeric or epic similes. Example “Weak as the doe that beds down her fawns in a mighty lion's den . . . but back the lion comes to his own lair and the master deals both fawns a ghastly, bloody death, just what Odysseus will deal that mob ghastly death.” How do we know it’s a simile? What is Homer comparing? The doe putting her fawn in danger is like Odysseus putting his men in danger. Literary Term Extended Metaphor Description a metaphor that continues over several lines of poetry Example Will Ferrell's Extended Metaphor: The University of Life "I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That’s the kind of school I went to for real, okay?" (Will Ferrell, Commencement Address at Harvard University, 2003) Literary Term Personification Hyperbole Description Example “Dawn spread on the eastern sky/ her fingers of pink light” animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, "East and South Winds clashed, and traits, abilities, or reactions the raging West and North/sprung from the heavens, roiled heaving breakers up." exaggerated language that distorts facts by making them much bigger than they are. Think of “Your Mama” jokes Odysseus states: “My son, my son, the unluckiest man alive!'" Literary Term Foreshadowing Description clues provides early ________ about where the plot is headed. It is a storytelling technique that gets viewers involved and thinking about the plot unfolding before them because they are picking up hints about what may soon happen. Example The foreboding that Odysseus feels as he heads toward the Cyclops's cave, which seems to prompt him to take the wine along, foreshadows his upcoming encounter with Polyphemus and the need for trickery to prevail. “Of this wine I filled a great wineskin full . . . for my proud heart had an idea that presently I would encounter a man who was endowed with great strength, and wild . . . Literary Term Description Example In Media Res To begin in the ___________ middle of a Iron Man – the movie showed what story; tells how the character got happened the 36 hours prior to where he/she is Odysseus tells King Alcinous about all the islands that he encountered before he can go home to Penelope Theme What the author wants to say about the human experience. Flashback interrupting the chronological order of a story and telling something that occurred earlier in time The Odyssey emphasizes the themes of adventure, brains over brawn, loyalty, familial love, perseverance, etc. This occurs when Odysseus tells his stories of adventure to King Alcinous of the Phaeacians at the beginning of the poem. Narrative Descriptive Expository Persuasive Tells a story Uses characters, dialogue Has a plot with a climax and resolution Beginning Middle End Describes in great detail Uses the five senses Taste Smell Touch Sight Hearing Explains something to the reader May include directions or “how to” information May explain why or how something was done History books and science books and math books contain expository writing Convinces the reader to do something or believe a certain way Commercials are persuasive writing Politicians’ speeches are persuasive writing Letters to government officials or businesses may be persuasive writing a. narrative b. descriptive c. expository d. persuasive a. narrative b. descriptive c. expository d. persuasive a. narrative b. descriptive c. expository d. persuasive a. narrative b. descriptive c. expository d. persuasive Loyal son of Odysseus Was a baby when Odysseus left for Troy Helps his father fight against the suitors One of Penelope’s suitors Very arrogant First to be killed King of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War Is away from home for 20 years In order to enter his home undetected, Athena turns him into a begger Messenger of the gods Protects Odysseus from Circe’s honey wine Faithful wife of Odysseua Holds off the suitors by weaving a shroud Odysseus sought him out in Hades for a prophecy Blind prophet Cyclopes that Odysseus and his men blind Goddess who turns crewmen of Odysseus into animals Tells Odysseus where to find the blind prophet Tiresias.