The Phantom Tollbooth Chapters 1 & 2 (Word Play)

In Chapter 1, Milo's mood can best be described as

• Bored

• Excited

• Curious

• Confused

Visualize means

• to look around

• to look at the pictures in a text

• to see something in your head while you think about it or as it is being described

• to make noticings and wonderings about a text to better understand a story

What is Milo's first stop in The Lands Beyond after entering the tollbooth?

• The Castle in the Air

• Dictionopolis

• The Doldrums

• Expectations

Homophones are

• Two or more words that SOUND the same but have different spelling and meanings

• Two or more words that are SPELLED the same but have different meanings

• Phrases that mean something other than the literal meaning of its individual words

Who does Milo meet first on his journey?

• The Lethargarians

• His mother

• His best firend Skip

• The Whether Man

Wordplay is ​ (a)   or clever use of words to create ​ (b)  

• playful
• humor
• homophones
• idioms

"Its raining cats and dogs!" is an example of what kind of wordplay?

• Homophone

• Homograph

• Idiom

Match the following vocabulary words with thier correct examples

• Bare and Bear

• 
• Idiom

• 
• Homograph

• Homophone

The Whether Man's name is an example of ​ (a)   because "whether" and "weather" are ​ (b)  

• wordplay
• homophones
• homographs
• fishsticks
• i

Choose the STRONGET piece of text evidence to support the following statement:

The Whether Man is an appropriate name for the first character Milo's meets because...

(*Hint: read carefully. Think about what you have learned about wordplay.)

• The Whether Man can't seem to make up his mind about anything "whether it's good or bad, up or down, rain or shine." (Pg. 20)

• The Whether Man often repeats himself. On page 18 of the text, the Whether Man says, "My, my, my, my, my..."

• The Whether Man can control the weather around him. On page 20, the author states that the Whether Man was "standing in the middle of a fierce cloudburst that seemed to be raining only on him.