The Odyssey
Vocabulary Words
NO ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS! Define on PAPER!
Define the following words. Make certain the definition matches
the part of speech provided for each word!
1. formidable – adj.
14. harrowing –adj.
2. guile – n.
15. travail – n.
3. entreat – v.
16. commandeer – v.
4. ponderous – adj.
17. gall – n.
5. appalled – adj.
18. dithering – v.
6. disdain – v.
19. omen – n.
7. vile – adj.
20. revelry – n.
8. snare – v.
21. restitution – n.
9. chide – v.
22. implacable – adj.
10. haggard – adj.
23. shun – v.
11. succumb – v.
24. rebuke – v.
12. regaled – v.
25. quest – v./n.
13. jostle – v.
The Odyssey
Vocabulary/ Terms
Part 2
Part 1 was to define the 25 words based on the part of speech provided. Part 2 consists of
defining the terms associated with poetry and the epic poem itself.
Define the following:
1. Mood –
2. Archetype –
3. Archetypal theme –
4. Flashback –
5. Epic simile –
6. Epithet –
7. Epic hero –
8. Haiku –
9. Exact rhyme –
10. Internal rhyme –
11. Narrative poetry –
12. Point of view –
13. Stanza –
14. Allusion –
15. Epic –
16. Assonance –
17. Consonance –
18. Onomatopoeia –
19. End rhyme –
20. Theme –
Part 3 –
Use 15 of the vocabulary words to create/discuss a hero and what a hero truly is!
Underline each of the words used in the assignment.