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"This British playwright penned 'Romeo and Juliet' and asked 'To be, or not to be?'"
William Shakespeare
J.K. Rowling's boy wizard attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in this first book of the series
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
This punctuation mark is used to show possession, as in 'the dog's bone,' or to form contractions like 'don't
Apostrophe
This J.R.R. Tolkien epic follows Frodo's journey to destroy the One Ring in Peter Jackson's acclaimed film trilogy
Lord of the Rings
What movie based off a book is this quote from: "You're a wizard, Harry"
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Raven' came from the dark imagination of this Baltimore writer"
Edgar Allen Poe
Suzanne Collins' 2008 dystopian novel features Katniss Everdeen volunteering as tribute in a televised death match
The Hunger Games
Words like 'quickly,' 'very,' and 'extremely' belong to this part of speech that modifies verbs, adjectives, or other words of the same type
Adverbs
Steven Spielberg brought this Michael Crichton novel about cloned dinosaurs to life in 1993, making audiences fear velociraptors
Jurassic Park
What movie based off a book is this quote from: "We accept the love we think we deserve"
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"Before becoming famous for The Bluest Eye, Beloved and Song of Solomon, this Nobel laureate was an editor at Random House"
Toni Morrison
George Orwell's dystopian novel features Big Brother, thoughtcrime, and the ominous Room 101
1984
Their,' 'there,' and 'they're' are examples of these words that sound the same but have different meanings and spelling
Homophone
Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson was based on this Stephen King novel set at the Overlook Hotel
The Shining
What movie based off of a book is this quote from: "Fear is the mind-killer"
Dune
"This 'Pride and Prejudice' author never married and published her novels anonymously during her lifetime"
Jane Austen
Harper Lee's classic follows Scout Finch and her father Atticus defending an innocent man in Depression-era Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird
This punctuation mark consists of two dots and is used to introduce a list or an explanation
Francis Ford Coppola adapted this Mario Puzo novel about the Corleone crime family into an Oscar-winning masterpiece
The Godfather
What movie based off of a book is this quote from: "We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky"
Elvis
"This 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author was a childhood friend of Truman Capote in Alabama"
Harper Lee
Khaled Hosseini's 2003 debut follows Amir's journey from Kabul to California and back, seeking redemption for childhood betrayal"
The Kite Runner
This punctuation mark, often called a 'super comma,' is used to separate items in a complex list, especially when the items already contain commas
Semicolon
Denis Villeneuve's 2021 epic starring Timothée Chalamet was based on this Frank Herbert sci-fi novel about Paul Atreides on the desert planet Arrakis
What movie based off of a book is this quote from: so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
The Great Gatsby