Semester review Odyssey Vocab

Question 1

Plunder (n.):

Answer 1

goods taken by force

Question 2

Squall (n.):

Answer 2

A brief violent storm with strong winds

Question 3

Dispatched (v.):

Answer 3

to send off or away with speed, to finish quickly

Question 4

Mammoth (adj.):

Answer 4

Enormous

Question 5

Bereft (v.):

Answer 5

left in a sad and lonely state

Question 6

Cherishes (v.):

Answer 6

Holds dear; feels love for

Question 7

Insidious (adj.):

Answer 7

Characterized by treachery, disloyalty, deceit; EVIL

Question 8

Dissemble (v):

Answer 8

conceal with false appearances, disguise

Question 9

Lithe (adj.):

Answer 9

supple; limber; flexible

Question 10

Incredulity (n.):

Answer 10

inability to believe; incredible

Question 11

Bemusing (V.):

Answer 11

Stupefying or muddling; confusing

Question 12

Glowering (v.):

Answer 12

staring with sullen anger; scowling

Question 13

Maudlin (adj.):

Answer 13

Tearfully sentimental from too much liquor (Granny! Country songs!)

Question 14

Contempt (n.):

Answer 14

Actions or attitude of a person toward someone of
something he or she considers low or worthless
(think of someone who is held in contempt of a court)

Question 15

Epithet:

Answer 15

Adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to
characterize a person, place or thing.
(“Odysseus, Raider of Cities” or “the gray-eyed Athena”)

Question 16

Personification:

Answer 16

kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
(“Dawn with ringlets shining” or “rosy-fingered dawn” or “the moon smiled down”)

Question 17

Flashback:

Answer 17

scene in a movie, play, short story, novel or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash-backward and tell what happened at an earlier time.

Question 18

Hyperbole:

Answer 18

Figure or speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create comic effect; extreme exaggeration (You’re killing me with your sarcasm!)

Question 19

Allusion:

Answer 19

reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion…
(Between a rock and hard place is an allusion to The Odyssey…So is “the lesser of two evils”)

Question 20

Foil

Answer 20

character who is used to contrast another character.

Question 21

Homeric simile:

Answer 21

an extended comparison between something that the audience cannot have seen
(such as Odysseus poking out the Cyclops’) and something ordinary that they would have been familiar with (such as a shipbuilder drilling a plank)

Question 22

Dramatic Irony:

Answer 22

occurs when the audience knows something important that a character in the play or story does not know.

Question 23

Episodic:

Answer 23

A series of related events in the course of a continuous

account