You Odyssey This!
What is to shoot an arrow through twelve ax heads?
This part of speech can be a person, place, thing, or idea and answers the question: "who or what?"
What is a noun?
Mr. Crew has worn this color more than any other color this semester.
What is blue?
This master of the macabre is famous for short stories like The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Tell Tale Heart.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This literary device uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
This is what scholars call the first four books of The Odyssey.
What is The Telemachy?
Identify all adjectives (excluding articles) in the following sentence:
My favorite Uncle was a Marine, but now works for a big electric company in Georgia's capital city Atlanta.
What are My, favorite, big, electric, Georgia's, and capital.
This is Mr. Crew's favorite fast-food spot.
Where is Taco Bell?
This wacky writer is credited for creating nonsense literature and is best known as the author of Alice and Wonderland and Jabberwocky.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
An earthly story with a heavenly meaning, famously taught by Jesus.
What is a parable?
This king gifts Odysseus a bag of wind.
Who is King Aeolius?
Identify the verbal and its type in this sentence:
I thought the screeching came from a dying bird outside, but it was just Dylan watching Curry highlights.
What is screeching/a gerund?
This was the 2025-2026 Heisman winner.
Who is Fernando Mendoza?
Maybe the most well known writer of short stories, William Sydney Porter used this pseudonym when publishing his written works.
What is O. Henry?
The hidden meaning of a text that is not directly stated or shown.
What is subtext?
This is considered to be the leaders of Penelope's suitors.
Who is Antinous?
This type of verb connects the subject to the complement which comes after it.
What is a linking verb?
Which real-life singer does Timothée Chalamet play in A Complete Unknown?
Who is Bob Dylan?
A Puritan woman, this author's poems were published by her brother-in-law posthumously.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
This literary period is acknowledged as a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions.
What is Romanticism?
This many of Odysseus' men are killed by the Laestrygonians.
What is roughly 478?
These are the lyrics to the tune that lists the being verbs in an easy to remember melody.
(Sing the Being Verbs Song)
What are "Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been, Has, Have, Had, Do, Does, Did, Shall, Will, Should, Would, May, Might, Must, Can... May, Might, Must, Can, and Could?"
The total amount of times Mr. Crew has handed out a detention this semester.
What is three?
A Frenchman, this gentleman wrote Two Friends, a story which follows a pair of men throughout a day in the life amidst the Franco-Prussian War.
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
Name one type of irony discussed in class and give an example of it.
What is dramatic, situational, or verbal?