Movie/Book Details
This classic children's book by Dr. Seuss follows the misadventures of a mischievous feline who brings chaos to a household.
Cat in the Hat
This term describes words that are similar in meaning to another word, such as "big" and "large".
Synonyms
In addition to running the popular YouTube account Crash Course, this author wrote novels such as "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska”
John Green
“May the Force be with you.”
Star Wars (multiple movies within the saga)
This type of poem features fourteen lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme, often associated with love or romance.
Sonnet
This beloved children's book by E.B. White tells the story of a spider who befriends a pig named Wilbur and saves him from being slaughtered.
These are used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences?
Conjunction
This author's work is characterized by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
George Orwell
“My mama always said life is a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Forrest Gump
What famous English playwright wrote timeless works such as "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Macbeth"?
William Shakespeare
The insomniac narrator with split personality disorder of this psychological thriller movie (adapted from a novel published in 1996) said this famous line: "You met me at a very strange time in my life."
Fight Club
This rhetorical device involves repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences for emphasis and rhythm.
Anaphora
Which author wrote the line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?
"Here's Johnny!"
The Shining
This 19th century American poet, famous for her reclusive lifestyle, wrote the lines “Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me”
Emily Dickenson
This science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury depicts a future society where books are banned and "firemen" burn any that are found.
Fahrenheit 451
This term characterizes the deliberate use of words or phrases that imitate sounds they describe?
Onomatopoeia
This author's novels often feature strong heroines and swoon-worthy heroes, including "Beach Read" and "People We Meet on Vacation."
Emily Henry
“You can’t handle the truth!”
A Few Good Men
This influential American essayist, lecturer, and poet, known for his transcendentalist philosophy, authored essays such as "Self-Reliance" and "Nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this dystopian novel by George Orwell, Winston lives in a society where totalitarianism reigns and individuality is suppressed under the omniscient figure, “Big Brother”.
1984
In Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," the phrase "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" demonstrates which sophisticated rhetorical device?
Antithesis
This transcendentalist author retreated to a cabin near Walden Pond to live simply and record his reflections on nature and society in his famous work.
Henry David Thoreau
"Here's looking at you, kid."
Casablanca
In this poem, the poet reflects on the beauty of springtime with the famous line, "April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land."
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot