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mythology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Laestrygonions | monstrous cannibals |
| Tiresies | prophet who told O not to kill helios' cattle |
| Achaeans | Greek people |
| word of mouth | who odessey was passed down |
| dramatic irony | where the reader knows something the character does not know |
| dead fish | homeric similie to dead suitors |
| swimmer | epic comparision of how O longs for penelope |
| Alcinous | king O tells his story to; in media res |
| in media res | in the middle of things |
| alliteration | repetition of same begining sounds |
| Euryclia | nurse who notices O by his scar |
| Cicones | coastal isle where O and his men attacked and then were forced back |
| epithet | label that identifies qualities of people |
| assonance | repetition of vowl sounds |