Authors
An American writer, born in 1916, primarily known for her works of horror and mystery, who wrote 6 novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
Who is Shirley Jackson author of The Haunting of Hill House?
This character's family leaves their home due to civil war, and is taken for dead, yet reappears at the end of the novel to reunite with his love interest and child he hadn't known about.
Who is Tariq from A Thousand Splendid Suns?
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
What does Macbeth say as he contemplates killing the king?
This is how many signs are in the Zodiac.
What is 12?
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
What is hyperbole?
This author is a Canadian who was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963, who's best-selling novel became a major motion picture in 2011.
Who is Yann Martel author of Life of Pi?
This character is named after a famous swimming pool in France, and later shortens his name to a Greek letter to avoid bullying in school.
Who is Pi, or Piscine Molitor Patel in Life of Pi?
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.”
What did Atticus say to justify his defense of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird?
The substance nails are made out of.
What is Keratin?
"I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall."
What is personification?
This American novelist won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for her 1960 detailing the racism in the small fictional southern town of Macomb, Alabama.
Who is Harper Lee author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
The protagonist and narrator, a sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled for academic failure from a school called Pencey Prep.
Who is Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger?
"Without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive today to tell you my story."
What does Pi Patel say about why he survived for so long on the sea in Life of Pi?
This painter reputedly cut off his own ear.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
What is allusion?
What is alliteration?
From "Kabul" by Iranian poet Saib Tabrizi, inspiration for the title A Thousand Splendid Suns.
A Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor, this author died in 2016.
Who is Eli Wiesel author of Night?
A shy, sensitive boy in a group that is stranded on an island after a plane crash, in some ways he is the only naturally "good" character, who is kind and works for the good of their community.
Who is Simon from The Lord of the Flies by William Golding?
"I fear too early, for my mind misgives;
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin."
What does Romeo say to foreshadow the tragedy in Romeo and Juliet?
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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”
What is symbolism?
An Afghan-American novelist and former physician, his debut novel The Kite Runner was a critical and commercial success.
Who is Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns?
A small, wiry, quick-witted man who travels with, and cares for his friend, a large, lumbering childlike migrant work. During the Great Depression. He ends up having to shoot his friend due to his friend murdering their employer's wife.
Who is George from Of Mice and Men by George Steinbeck?
"And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away."
What does Curley's wife say, right before Lennie kills her in Of Mice and Men?
This country has the most vending machines per capita.
What is Japan?
Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention
seconds at a time. Catch? I don’t think so.
Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who’s—oh
joy—actually scared.
What is Humor? or
What are rhetorical questions? or
What is a varying/short/choppy syntax?