The Adventures of Ulysses review

1. The Adventures of Ulysses review Test tomorrow!

2. What is mood?

3. Mood = Me • Tone = Author’s Attitude • Mood is how you feel as you read the text • Find an excerpt with a positive mood. Write three additional good mood words.

4. Find an excerpt • Neutral or indifferent mood • Write down the quotation and page numbers • Write down one more neutral word • Negative mood • Write down the quotation and page numbers • Write down two more negative mood words

5. What is theme?

6. a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. In many cases, readers must infer what the writer’s message is. • Ex: People are good at heart.

7. What theme emerges in this excerpt? It is said, too, that Nausicaa never accepted any of the young men who came a-wooing, announcing that she was wedded to song. She became the first woman bard and traveled all the courts of the world singing her song of the heroes who fought at Troy, but especially of Ulysses and of his adventures among the terrible islands of the Middle sea. Some say that she finally came to the court of Itaca to sing her song, and there she stayed. Others say that she fell in with a blind poet who took all her songs and wove them into one huge tapestry of song.

8. Circe • Write an expert summary of Circe • What are qualities of a good summary? (use your notes)

9. Vocabulary in context He cried it with all his force, in the great bellowing, clanging battle voice that had rung over spear shock and clash of sword to reach the ears of his men on so many fields before Troy. His great shout quelled the clamor. The amazed suitors turned to see the old beggar stride out of the shadows into the torchlight. Meaning: Explanation: