Dunham Books 1-4 Test

Question 1

Kelos

Answer 1

Fame on the lips of men

Question 2

Xenia

Answer 2

Greek hospitality

Question 3

Telemachus

Answer 3

Son of Odysseus and Penelope

Question 4

Homer

Answer 4

Blind bard That lived about 140 years after the Trojan war

Question 5

Robert Fagles

Answer 5

Translator of book who taught at Princeton University

Question 6

Bard

Answer 6

A poet – singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds
Respected
* Could grant Kelos*

Question 7

An epic must begin in the ______ of the story

Answer 7

Middle

Question 8

An epic must follow the story of a _____

Answer 8

Hero

Question 9

Topic

Answer 9

What the story is about in 1 WORD!!!!

Ex. Love

Question 10

Theme

Answer 10

A theme is the message of the story.

Ex. “Love can tear people apart, but it can also bring them together.”

Question 11

Epithet

Answer 11

An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

Question 12

Paraphrase

Answer 12

To put into your own words

Question 13

Significance

Answer 13

Why it is important

this shows that…..

Question 14

Context

Answer 14

• The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
• The parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning.