British Literature
A poor boy in an unfortunate situation gets accepted into a school for wizards and witches.
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
An annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The main character or hero of a story, often the character the audience sympathizes with or roots for.
Protagonist
A castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
Robinson Crusoe - William Defoe
A distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a talking raven.
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
A literary technique in which the author hints at future events or developments in the story, building suspense and anticipation for the reader.
Foreshadowing
A prince and who attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered the prince's father in order to seize his throne and marry the prince's mother.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin.
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The perspective from which a story is told
POV
An owner of an estate has five daughters, but his property can only be passed to a male heir. His family become poor upon his death. At least one of the daughters has to marry well to support the others.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
A French literature professor who moves to New England and has an obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet".
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Simile
A poem with two narrative arcs - the first one about Satan and the other about Adam and Eve. There is no proper translation of this book in czech.
Paradise Lost - John milton
A story about a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry, which contributes to its overall musicality and flow.
Meter