Characters in Fiction
This American girl, raised in a small town in Alabama, is the protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird and narrates the story of racial injustice in the South.
Who is Scout Finch?
This 2014 novel by Anthony Doerr, which intertwines the stories of a blind French girl and a German boy during World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015.
What is All the Light We Cannot See?
This Shakespeare play features two star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate possession or show the omission of letters in contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This poet, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, writes often about animals; in her most well-known poem, she compares girls to horses.
Who is Ada Límon?
In Twelfth Night, this shipwrecked heroine disguises herself as a man named Cesario while serving Duke Orsino.
Who is Viola?
This 1961 Pulitzer-winning novel by Harper Lee explores racial injustice in the Deep South through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
This comedic Shakespeare play features mistaken identities, twins, and the line, "If music be the food of love, play on."
What is Twelfth Night?
This punctuation mark separates items in a list or clauses in a sentence, helping to clarify meaning.
What is a comma?
This iconic American newspaper, founded in 1851, is known for its slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."
What is The New York Times?
This clever Greek hero takes a 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War in The Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
This 1987 Pulitzer-winning novel by Toni Morrison tells the haunting story of Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, as she confronts the trauma of her past and the ghost of her child.
What is Beloved?
Shakespeare's plays were performed at this famous theater in London, known for its open-air design.
What is The Globe?
This punctuation mark is used at the end of a question.
What is a question mark?
This Victorian author wrote A Tale of Two Cities, set during the French Revolution, and Great Expectations, about the orphan Pip.
Who was Charles Dickens?
This locksmith and museum curator is entrusted with the Sea of Flames diamond and plays a crucial role in protecting his blind daughter during the events of All the Light We Cannot See.
This 2017 Pulitzer-winning novel by Colson Whitehead follows Cora, an enslaved woman, as she escapes on a literal underground railroad.
What is The Underground Railroad?
Most of Shakespeare's plays are divided into this many acts.
What is five?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate strong emotions or surprise, often placed at the end of an exclamatory sentence.
What is an exclamation point?
This orphaned heroine, raised by her cruel aunt and sent to Lowood School, eventually becomes the governess at Thornfield Hall in this novel by Charlotte Brontë.
What is Jane Eyre?
This character in Romeo and Juliet secretly marries the young lovers and devises the plan involving a sleeping potion to reunite them.
Who is Friar Laurence?
This 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead, set in a brutal reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2020.
What is Nickel Boys?
This nineteenth-century critic used Shakespeare's plays to develop his theory of plot structure.
Who is Freytag?
This punctuation mark is used to separate two independent clauses in a sentence, often with a conjunction like "and" or "but."
What is a semicolon?
This modernist author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse was a key figure in the Bloomsbury Group.
Who was Virginia Woolf?