The Odyssey
Vocabulary
10% of the Story
Oddments
Romeo & Juliet
100
It's the reason that the cyclops tells the others that 'nobody' did this to him.
What is Odysseus said his name was "Nohbdy?" (or something close)
100
Like whispering into your best friend's ear, it's something said on stage that most of the characters are not meant to hear.
What is an aside?
100
In this theory only 10% of the story is actually stated; the other 90% the reader has to figure out.
What is the "iceberg principle?" or What is the "theory of omission?"
100
A sentence needs both of these in order to be complete.
What is a subject and a verb?
100
Much of what she says is full of sexual innuendo.
Who is the Nurse?
200
Without his magical plant, Odysseus may well have been turned into a pig like his crew.
Who is Hermes?
200
It's the big picture part of L.I.E.
What is evaluative?
200
The Hemingway short story that deals with how aging can change the meaning in life.
What is "A Clean, Well Lighted Place?"
200
It's what we call two or more complete sentences put together with no internal punctuation at all.
What is a run-on?
200
In Act III Romeo has a breakdown in Friar Laurence's cell over this, saying he'd rather be dead.
What is his banishment?
300
Odysseus arrives home only to find a hundred men hanging out in his house, trying to win his wife. This man was their leader and the first one Odysseus killed.
Who is Antinuous?
300
It's a reference to another work - not a magic trick.
What is an allusion?
300
It's a philosophy in which each man must find his own meaning in life.
What is existentialism?
300
Representing different levels of understanding, it's what the acronym L.I.E stands for.
What is literal, inferential and evaluative?
300
An easily overlooked character, it seems in the end that he really did love Juliet.
Who is Count Paris?
400
It was a beauty contest between goddesses that started the whole thing. She's the goddess Paris chose as the winner.
Who is Aphrodite?
400
With his constant joking and energetic personality, Mercutio can easily be seen as Romeo's this.
What is foil?
400
It's what Gertrude Stein called the group of expatriates Hemingway was part of.
What is the "Lost Generation?"
400
This sentence - Through the symbols in the story Hemingway shows that relationships come to a crossroads when there are big decisions to be made. - is an example of this part of a chunk paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
400
The poison Romeo buys is illegal - this is the only reason the apothecary agrees to sell it.
What is "he needed the money?"
500
The only man in the crew who seems to have any common sense, he's the one that tells Odysseus (more than once) that he's being foolish.
Who is Eurylochus?
500
It's different from a monologue, the character speaking must be alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
500
You can call me Ernest Hemingway if you really want, but everyone these days calls me ______ Hemingway.
What is "Papa?"
500
They're the two times an apostrophe is used.
What is a contraction and a possessive?
500
A 10 syllable pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Shakespeare was known for using it.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
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