Highlight the words the author uses to make a pun in this passage. "I thought you were the Weather Man," said Milo, very confused.

"Oh no," said the little man, "I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be."

—The Phantom Tollbooth,
Norton Juster

What is the point of this pun?

The man confuses Milo.
The man tells whether things happen, not the weather.
The man can predict the weather.
The man thinks weather is more important than anything else.

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. match each of ulysses's characteristics as an epic hero to an event in homer's odyssey. ulysses conceives of a plan to blind the cyclops. ulysses shouts out his name to the cyclops while leaving the island. jove orders calypso to allow ulysses to continue on his journey home. neptune raises storms to throw ulysses's ship off course. place event faces obstacles set by supernatural foes arrowright possesses human frailties and flaws arrowright receives from supernatural friends arrowright is braver and smarter than a typical man arrowright