Vocabulary
The Odyssey
Ready Player One
Literary Terms
Usage
100
What word means "n. A prejudiced or intolerant person "
What is **bigot**.
100
Odysseus's importance in the story/role.
What is the main character?
100
Wattz.
What is Wade's last name?
100
An exaggeration.
What is hyperbole.
100
Advice means guidance or recommendation. (noun) Advise means a suggestion. (noun)
What is the difference between advise and advice?
200
What word means "v. To reprimand (someone) severely "?
What is castigate.
200
The length of time Odysseus stayed with Nymph Calypso.
What is 7 years?
200
It was a homemade bomb or a lab that went wrong
What is the response of the world when Wade's trailer blew up?
200
the term used for what is expected to happen vs what really happens.
What is irony.
200
Affect - have an effect on. (verb) Effect - a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause. (noun)
What is the difference between affect vs effect?
300
What word means "n. A big or great difference"?
What is disparity.
300
She is the main god that helps Telemachus find his father.
What is Athena.
300
A fat, African American, female, but extremely familiar and nice.
What is Aech?
300
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
300
Healthy - in good health. (adj) Healthful - having or conducive to good health. (adj)
What is the difference between healthy and healthful.
400
What word means "adj. Lacking flavor/vigor or interest"?
What is insipid.
400
The name of the cyclopse Odysseus blinds.
What is Polyphemus?
400
Kira marrying Ogden Morrow instead.
What is the reason James Halliday got so mad and stop speaking to Ogden Morrow?
400
A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, and work of art.
What is allusion.
400
Than - introducing the second element in a comparison. example with than - "he was much smaller than his son" Then - after that; next; afterward. example with then - "she won the first and then the second game"
What is the difference between then vs than?
500
What word means "n. public shame or disgrace"?
What is ignominy.
500
She committed suicide because she had lost hope and strength.
What is the reason that Odysseus mother is in the Land of the dead?
500
He had an extra life from beating Halliday's high score after playing pac-man, which gave him another life.
What is the reason Wade got a second chance to win the game at the end?
500
An apparently contradictory statement that actually contains truth.
What is paradox?
500
There - in, at, or to that place or position. Their - belonging to or associated with the people They're - they are in short,
What is the difference between There vs. their vs. they're?
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