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The Odyssey
Capitalization
Punctuation
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
100
The number of years that Odysseus is away from Ithaca.
What is 20 years
100
This is created by using the first letter of several words and creates a word itself and every letter is capitalized.
What is an acronym
100
The type of sentence that ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
100
When you mess up someone's hair or what you are in if you are confused.
What is muddle?
100
This is a model upon which all subsequent things of a like kind are patterned.
What is an archetype?
200
A six-headed monster that eats people
What is Scylla
200
Any noun that should be capitalized because it names a specific person, place, thing, or idea
What is a proper noun
200
The name of the comma before the "and" when listing items in a series.
What is the serial comma?
200
What bosses do when employees complete their work.
What is compensate?
200
This is a hint of future occurrences in a piece of literature
What is foreshadowing?
300
A major character trait of Odysseus that hurts him during his journey
What is arrogance/pride
300
The reason why you capitalize something like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
What is because it is the name of an organization?
300
These are descriptive words that follow each other and together describe the same noun.
What are coordinating adjectives?
300
What you do if you damage your reputation.
What is sully?
300
The opposite of what you expect to happen
What is irony?
400
The people of Alcinous and Arete
Who are the Phaeacians
400
This gives the speaker's exact words, and the first word should be capitalized.
What is a direct quotation?
400
The grammatical structure that is not necessary in a sentence and should be set off with commas.
What is a nonessential clause/element?
400
When you give up control or surrender.
What is relinquish?
400
When you give human characteristics to an inanimate object
What is personification?
500
The symbol of Odysseus' and Penelope's marriage
What is their rooted bed?
500
The reason why you should capitalize Memorial Day.
What is because it is the name of a holiday?
500
This gives more information about a noun just mentioned and usually is set off with commas.
What is an appositive?
500
Something that is strange or unusual.
What is alien?
500
An object or idea that is repeated throughout a piece of literature
What is a motif?