The Odyssey Vocabulary

Front

Comparison of unlike terms

Back

Metaphor

Front

Giving lifelike qualities to inanimate objects

Back

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Repeated descriptive phrases

Back

epithet

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Comparison using 'like' or 'as'

Back

Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Front

Author's attitude towards audience/subject/characters

Back

Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Front

Central idea in writing; life lesson; Temptations are difficult to resist.

Back

theme

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Front

Event/scene before present time

Back

Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Front

Hint of future events

Back

foreshadow

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Front

"Her legs are like great tentacles..."

Back

Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

"...heard the rock bellowing..."

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A