1st Grade
What is the name of the pig in E.B. White's Charlotte's Web?
Wilbur
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who finds the first Golden Ticket?
Augustus Gloop
What literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things or objects?
Personification
What is the term for the repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in a sequence of words?
Alliteration
What literary element describes the emotional feeling a reader gets from a text?
Mood (or Atmosphere)
In Green Eggs and Ham, what character tries to convince the narrator to eat them?
Sam-I-Am
What part of speech describes a noun (e.g., shiny, enormous)?
Adjective
Who wrote the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series?
Rick Riordan
Who wrote the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit?
J.R.R. Tolkien
In Lois Lowry's The Giver, what rare job assignment does Jonas receive at the Ceremony of Twelve?
The Receiver of Memory
What type of punctuation mark must end an asking sentence?
A question mark
Which bear loves marmalade sandwiches and arrived at a London train station?
Paddington Bear
Identify the adverb in this sentence: The knight fought bravely in the arena.
Bravely
What is a metaphor?
A direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"
What type of clause contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence?
Dependent (or Subordinate) clause
Which classic character wears a blue coat and sneaks into Mr. McGregor's garden?
Peter Rabbit
What is the term for two words joined together to make a single word, like sunflower or bookcase?
Compound word
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, what sweet treat tempts Edmund into betraying his siblings?
Turkish Delight
In Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, which country's resistance helps Jewish families escape during WWII?
Denmark
What famous American author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer under a pen name?
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Identify the noun in this sentence: The brown dog barked.
Dog
In The Wizard of Oz, what does the Scarecrow want the Wizard to give him?
A brain
What is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different spelling and meaning (e.g., knight / night)?
Homophone
What type of phrase is missing a subject, a predicate, or a complete thought, making it an incomplete sentence?
Sentence fragment
What is the term for a word, phrase, or clause that improperly modifies another word because of where it is placed in the sentence?
Misplaced modifier (or Dangling modifier)