Books
This children’s book features a feline in a striped hat that wreaks havoc in a house on a rainy day.
What is The Cat in the Hat?
This author was on the brink of homelessness before she wrote a fantasy series and became the first billionaire author.
Who is JK Rowling?
This device compares two things using words such as "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This novel follows Scout Finch as she witnesses her father, Atticus, defend a Black man accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” is a quote from this book.
What is Animal Farm?
This series depicts a dystopian future where 12 districts annually send 2 tributes to fight to the death.
What is The Hunger Games?
This author wrote only children’s books before creating what is considered one of the best dystopian series of all time.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
This device is defined as "the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words".
What is an alliteration?
This Greek epic poem follows a war hero's 10 year journey home.
What is The Odyssey?
This novel begins with “It was a pleasure to burn.”
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This dystopian novel written by George Orwell provides social commentary on the dangers of totalitarianism and loss of individual freedoms.
What is 1984?
This author created his own full languages for his fictional worlds.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's comment that Romeo looked like he was already in a tomb is an example of this device.
What is foreshadowing?
This classic pushed the 13 colonies to fight for their independence.
What is Common Sense?
“Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger,” is a quote from this book.
What is Life of Pi?
This series begins with a chapter named “I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher”.
What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
This author is considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. His works include War and Peace as well as Anna Karenina.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
The short story The Gift of the Magi is one of the most famous examples of this device.
Historical figures of the Russian Revolution are represented as pigs in this classic.
What is Animal Farm?
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship,” is a quote from this book.
What is Little Women?
This American classic won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
This American author and poet died by suicide through carbon monoxide poisoning after putting her head in an oven.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein refers to himself as "the modern Prometheus". Frankenstein's reference is an example of this device.
What is an allusion?
This 1915 novel tells the story of a man who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect.
What is The Metamorphosis?
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful,” is a quote from this novel.
What is Frankenstein?