Odyssey Literary Terms Review
Allusion
Epithet
Imagery
Myth
Dramatic irony
Extended Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Homeric Simile
Poetic Justice
Personification
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Epic
Epic hero
Flashback
Hero
Legend
Metaphor
Symbolism
Oral tradition
Across
2. a long narrative poem that traces the adventures of an epic
hero
4. the author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in
the story
7. Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from
literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports,
science or pop culture
9. traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture, is
basically religious, and usually serves to explain a belief, a
ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon
12. Simile an extended comparison, also called an epic simile,
gets its name from Homer, the Greek poet
15. kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is
talked about as if it were human
17. adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to
characterize a person, place or thing
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1. irony occurs when the audience
or the reader knows
something important that a
character in a play or story
does not know
3. When a character gets what
he/she deserves. When the
most fitting reward or
punishment is doled out to a
character
5. stories, songs, and poems
about the history and heritage
of a people that are passed
from generation to generation
by word of mouth
6. a literary device in which an
earlier episode, conversation,
or event is inserted into the
sequence of events
8. person, place, thing, or event
that stands for itself and for
something beyond itself as
well
10. metaphor is a metaphor that
is extended, or developed
over several lines of writing
or even throughout an entire
poem
11. a widely told story about the
past, one that may or may not
have a foundation in fact
13. language use to appeal to the
senses
14. a character who exhibits
extraordinary powers of
strength, courage or
intelligence
16. Figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two
unlike things, in which one
thing becomes another thing
without the use of the word
like, as, than or resembles