The Odyssey Recovery Assignment

Polyphemus is an example of a​ (a)   character because he shows no change throughout his story. He is also a ​ (b)   character because we don't know why he is the way he is.

• static
• dynamic
• flat
• round

What war does Odysseus fight in?

• The Trojan War

• The Polynesian War

• The Civil War

• The Peloponnesian War

Shrek is an example of a ​ (a)   character because he is a grouchy and isolated ogre at the end but gains friends by the end. He is also a ​ (b)   character because we learn a lot about his personality throughout the movie.

• dynamic
• round
• flat
• static

Scar is a ​ ​ (a)   character because we don't know much about him. But he is also a ​ (b)   character because he is mean from the beginning to the end.

• flat
• static
• round
• dynamic

Match the following:

• Round and Static

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• Static and Flat

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• Dynamic and Round

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What is the purpose in Odysseus boasting in this line?:

Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war; this fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim" (Homer 18-20).

• To clarify Odysseus' background

• To establish Odysseus' credibility

• To challenge the listeners

• To engage the listeners

Why is it important that Odysseus' "fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim"?

• To show that his story is unique

• To show that his story is familiar

• To show that his story is well-known to the people of Ithaca

• To show that his story is known by the gods

What convinces the men to eat the cattle of the Sun God?

• They figure out that Odysseus lied to them.

• They decide starving is the worst kind of death imaginable.

• Poseidon tricks them into it.

• They don't realize the cattle they eat belong to the Sun God.

Why does Odysseus not tell his men about the monster Scylla?

• Circe told him not to say anything

• He wants them all to die

• He needs them to row fast to stay away from the whirlpool

• The men said they would do whatever he wanted.

Match the figurative language to it's example.

• Imagery

• ". . . the sweet scene hovered like a fume over the winebowl" (Homer 150-151).

• Symbolism

• They killed and feasted on the cattle of the Sun God Helios.

• Alliteration

• Helios cherishes his cattle, but the cattle represent temptation to the men.

• Simile

• "Where shall a man find sweetness to surpass his own home..." (Homer 35-36).

• Allusion

• "So with our brand we bored34 that great eye socket

  while blood ran out around the red-hot bar.

  Eyelid and lash were seared; the pierced ball

  hissed broiling, and the roots popped" (Homer 337-340).