Short Stories
This genre is characterized by a futuristic and post-apocalyptic setting, typically with an oppressive government.
What is a dystopia?
She wrote the original Hunger Games series.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
Name the character: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ear"
Who is Mark Antony?
Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass) occurred in this year.
What is 1938
This is the "verse" of a poem and is separated with blank lines.
What is a "stanza"?
This author penned classics such as "All Summer in a day"
Who is Ray Bradbury?
Katniss holds up this key symbol to represent rebellion and unity.
What is the three-finger salute?
He was the last to stab Caesar.
Who is Brutus?
About this many young people were rescued as part of the Kindertransport.
What are 10,000.
This is the technique when an object or animal is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
In Harrison Bergeron, this happens to people who are smarter or stronger than average.
They have to wear "handicaps".
These are the creatures that have the eyes of dead tributes and terrorize Katniss.
What are muttations?
Name the character: "Beware the ides of March!"
Who is the soothsayer?
This character represents the ongoing trauma of the holocaust as it follows Evelyn throughout her life.
What is the Ratcatcher?
Name the author: She wrote "A bird came down the walk."
In his story, "The Fun They Had", Isaac Asimov predicts this technology in schools.
What are AI or robot teachers?
This actor plays a young Haymitch in the upcoming Hunger Games movie.
Who is Joseph Zada?
This character winds up becoming the first emperor of Rome.
Who is Octavius?
What is the United States?
Finish the next line:
It sifts from Leaden Sieves -
It powders all the Wood.
It fills with Alabaster Wool
....
What is:
The Wrinkles of the Road--
What is a butterfly.
Who is Coin?
When Brutus tells the audience that Caesar was ambitious, and gives examples to prove his argument, he is using this persuasive technique.
What is logos?
What is slant or near rhyme?