Oddessy Vocab Book 1

• prophecy


  a prediction
• minstrel


  singer, musician
• candor


  honesty; frankness
• symbols


  objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• motifs


  recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text's major themes
• theme


  the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• epic


  a long narrative poem telling of a hero's adventure or deeds
• greek mythology

  the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks. (the myths contain gods and goddesses, heroes, monsters, fools, and adventure. They gave meaning to the world that the people saw around them)
• myth


  a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings.
• mythology


  a collection of myths, belonging to religious or cultural traditions