The Odyssey
She holds Odysseus captive for 7 years.
Who is Calypso?
Scout is this old at the beginning of the novel.
What is six years old?
This the city where Paul lives with his father.
What is Pittsburgh?
This character is a retired English professor.
Who is Faber?
"In the garden with the colorful flowers" is an example of this error.
What is a sentence fragment?
Then, like an expert singer skilled at lyre and song— who strains a string to a new peg with ease, making the pliant sheep-gut fast at either end— so with his virtuosos ease Odysseus strung his mighty bow is an example of this.
What is epic simile?
This character said, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Who is Atticus Finch?
Paul is an usher at this concert venue.
What is Carnegie Hall?
This character says, "I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no."
Who is Clarisse?
"The sun was setting it cast a beautiful orange glow across the sky" is an example of this error.
What is run-on sentence?
To test Odysseus's identity, Penelope asks for this object to be moved.
What is their bed?
Dill is from this town in Mississippi.
What is Meridian?
This symbol appears multiple times in the short story.
What is a red carnation?
This character said, "'My 'family' is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh!'"
Who is Mildred?
"The weather was cold, the wind was biting" is an example of this error.
What is a comma splice?
In Medias Res means this.
"in the midst of things"
These are the two items Scout and Jem find in the knothole of the tree in front of the Radley house at the beginning of Chapter 4.
"Paul's Case" is written in this point of view.
What is third person omniscient?
The test Clarisse uses to tell if someone is in love.
What is rubbing a dandelion under your chin?
"Their going to the concert on Saturday" can be corrected with this:
They're
This is the name of the blind prophet who foretells Odysseus's fate and advises him on his journey.
Who is Tiresias?
Scout shares that she heard this at the end of Chapter 4.
What is laughter from inside the Radley house?
This is the main conflict in "Paul's Case."
What is man v. self?
Montag plants a book in this fireman's house and then calls it in.
Who is Mr. Black?
"My student Brayden ate 29 muffins" can be corrected by writing the sentence this way.
My student, Brayden, ate 29 muffins.