The Epic

Who is the hero of The Odyssey?

• Poseidon

• Hercules

• Odysseus

• Zeus

A reference to a famous person, place, or event with which audiences will be familiar is an

• epic simile

• allusion

• epic setting

• epic plot

What has a wide scale of many nations or fantastic, exotic places?

• epic themes

• epic setting

• archetypes

• epic plot

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What are instantly recognizable characters, settings, or images?

• allusions

• epics

• epic plots

• archetypes

These reflect universal concerns.

• epic heroes

• epic themes

• epic similes

• epic heroes

A long narrative poem is called

• an epic

• an odyssey

• an archetype

• an allusion

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A brief, descriptive phrase used to characterize people or things is referred to as

• an epic plot

• an epic simile

• an epic setting

• an epic epithet

A character with superhuman qualities who represents a culture's admirable ideals and values and receives help and interference from gods is

• an epic hero

• an epic simile

• an epic theme

• an epic setting

An epic simile is different from a simile because an epic simile

• is a shorter comparison

• always includes an epic hero

• always rhymes

• is a longer comparison over several lines of the poem

What includes strange creatures, dangerous weather, divine intervention, and world-scale events?

• epic simile

• epic hero

• epic plot

• epic theme