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Literature by Letter - O

Identify these literary things that start with the letter O.
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Last updated: December 20, 2016
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First submittedNovember 7, 2016
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Realm of the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow
Oz
Dickens orphan who would like some more gruel (first name)
Oliver
Sequel to the "Iliad", telling of the journey home after the fall of Troy
Odyssey, The
Greek hero famous for accidentally killing his father and marrying his mother
Oedipus
Famous words of Lady MacBeth
Out Damn'd Spot
Author of "1984" and "Animal Farm"
George Orwell
Hamlet's love interest
Ophelia
One of ancient Roman's three canonical poets. Author of "Metamorphoses"
Ovid
Considered the most authoritative and scholarly English dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
A self-contradicting statement, such as "jumbo shrimp"
Oxymoron
Pulitzer-winning Hemingway novella in which Santiago struggles
with a giant marlin
Old Man and the
Sea, the
Shakespeare's "Moorish play", or the titular character in said play
Othello
A word that sounds like the noise it is describing - buzz, click, grunt, for example
Onomatopoeia
Nonsense poem by Edward Lear about four animals in a pea green boat
Owl and the Pussycat, the
Ken Kesey book about an Oregon psychiatric hospital. The movie
version won 5 Academy Awards.
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest
Author of "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope"
Barack Obama
Children's book about a boy who had to shoot his beloved yellow dog
Old Yeller
A poem in praise of something. For example, "___ to Joy"
Ode
This Catholic group were cast as villains in "The Da Vinci Code"
Opus Dei
Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot
Murder on the
Orient Express
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16 Comments
cpgatbyu
+5
Level 88
Nov 7, 2016
Hamlet's love interest was himself.
Qikiq
+3
Level 89
Dec 21, 2016
Spelling onomatopoeia before coffee - interesting.
silvestra
+1
Level 73
Mar 12, 2017
Yep. I knew the word, tried a few spellings but nothing worked. :( It's hard for someone who is not used to the English word.
sussexval
+1
Level 57
Jun 12, 2017
me too!
blinky
+3
Level 57
Feb 17, 2018
It's hard for someone who KNOWS the English word!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 8, 2019
Had it right the first time but couldnt get odyssey... i know it in latin and my own language, and usually can get things right in english (without knowing the actual english spelling, just by remembering what the english spelling turns other words into)

i remember having this issue with odyssey before and looking it up then. And also remember that english is a little bit the odd one out if you compare the spelling of this word with how the rest of the world spells it.)

cranbeckh
+1
Level 69
Jun 12, 2017
Spoiler alert Old Yeller!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Jun 12, 2017
Got everything but had to guess random animals that start with O for the Edward Lear poem.
triviaolivia
+1
Level 64
Jun 12, 2017
BLESS you for being so generous with our spelling!
Jacktheguy
+2
Level 94
Jun 12, 2017
Well, I had to remember how to correctly spell "onomatopoeia" so maybe generosity is being handed out to a select few.
mrrick
+3
Level 17
Jun 13, 2017
Only two animals were in the boat, the 'Owl and the Pussycat', they met the Pig and the Turkey in the land were the 'Bong Trees' grow.
stone222
+1
Level 47
Oct 20, 2018
unless you count honey and money...
AbiA
+1
Level 88
Oct 13, 2022
Quite right, except that only one Bong-tree was mentioned in the poem.
Jeffro
+1
Level 79
Sep 7, 2021
Blew through all the answers and then spent the last 60 seconds furiously trying to correctly spell onomatopoeia.
AbiA
+2
Level 88
Feb 1, 2023
Surely onomatopoeic should work?
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 65
Jun 1, 2024
How about it Shirley?
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