‘The Odyssey’ Cornell Notes

Brady/Lee/Wilder

What is an Epic Poem?

•is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation

Conflict

•Types of Conflict• External Conflict:• Man vs man• Man vs society• Man vs nature

• Internal Conflict:• Man vs self

Allusion (alludes)

•a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing or guessing ahead is a literary device by which an author hints what is to come.

• “for their own reckless behavior destroyed them all-

• Children and fools, they killed and feasted on

• The cattle of Lord Helios, the Sun,

• And he who m0oves all day through heaven

• Took from their eyes the dawn of return”

Flashback

•A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.

Hyperbole

• An extreme exaggeration not to be take literally

• “She was as big as a house”• “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”