Friday, May 14, 2021

Things to know for the Test

 

THEMES:
Be able to show three examples from the text to back up each of the following:
Loyalty
Hospitality
Pride/Arrogance
Coming of Age
Forgetting (or the evils of drugs and women)
 
MOTIFS:
Be able to explain the following and why they are used:
Storytelling
Back story of Troy
Agammenon/Clytaimnestra
 
Other Epic elements:
Starts “in the middle of things”; Odysseus’ tragic flaw; sports
 
SYMBOLS:
 
Be able to explain the following:
Birds (especially eagles); Hades; Odyssey’s Wound
 
GODS (know the following and what they do in the text)::
Athena; Poseidon; Hermes; Zeus; Helios
 
SEDUCTRESSES: (know the following and their purpose)
Helen; Calypso; Circe; Sirens
 
CHARACTERS:
 
Be able to give a description of the following and their roles in the story (perhaps what the symbolize or represent – and connect to a theme)
 
Agammenon                                      Amphinomos
Achilles                                              Telemachos
Helen                                                 Laertes
Menelaus                                           Penelope
Aias (Ajax)                                         Antinoos       
Orestes                                              Eurymachos
Nestor                                                            Lotus Eaters
Mentor                                               Ciconians
Nausicaa                                            Polyphemos
Alcinoos                                             Scylla
Arete                                                  Charybdis
Emaios                                               Aiolos
Theoclymenos                                   Elpenor
Melanthios                                        Teiresias
Arnaios                                              Eurylochos
Eurycleia                                           Cassandra
Tityo                                                   Tantalus
Sisyphus

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Things to know for the Test

  THEMES: Be able to show three examples from the text to back up each of the following: Loyalty Hospitality Pride/Arrogance Comi...