Characters
What is the name of Harry Potter's owl?
Hedwig
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
What literary device compares two things using “like” or “as”?
Simile
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
What is the opposite of a protagonist?
Antagonist
Who is the main character in The Hunger Games?
Katniss Everdeen
Who wrote Harry Potter?
J.K. Rowling
What is it called when an object or idea is given human qualities?
Personification
What is a poem with 14 lines called?
Sonnet
What literary genre tells a story through letters, diary entries, or documents?
Epistolary
What is the name of Sherlock Holmes’ assistant?
Dr. John Watson
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Macbeth
What device uses deliberate exaggeration for emphasis?
Hyperbole
What is iambic pentameter?
A poetic meter consisting of five iambs per line
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something that a character does not
Who is the tragic hero of Shakespeare’s Macbeth?
Macbeth
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
Napoleon
“The classroom was a zoo.” What literary device is being used?
Metaphor
What is enjambment?
When a sentence continues from one line of poetry into the next without punctuation
What is a bildungsroman?
A coming-of-age novel that follows the protagonist’s psychological and moral development
In Hamlet, what is the name of Hamlet’s father’s ghost?
King Hamlet
Which author wrote both 1984 and Animal Farm?
George Orwell
What is the difference between metaphor and simile?
A metaphor compares directly without “like/as,” while a simile uses “like” or “as.”
What is the volta in a sonnet?
The turning point or shift in thought/argument in a poem, especially a sonnet
What is unreliable narration, and why might an author use it?
Narration by a character whose account cannot be fully trusted; authors use it to create ambiguity, suspense, or reveal bias.