Influential Authors
What modern-day American writer is known for her dystopian series, The Hunger Games?
Suzanne Collins
What is the term for a narrative form of poetry, typically arranged in quarters with the rhythm scheme ABAB?
Ballad
What is the most popular book in the world?
The Bible
What font size is accepted in MLA formatting?
What is literature?
A body of written or oral work, including fiction, poetry, and drama, characterized by high-quality form, expression, and lasting artistic or cultural value.
Who is the author of Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austen
What is the term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance?
Allusion
What is the best selling book series of the 2000s?
Harry Potter
What font is accepted in MLA Formatting?
Times New Roman
What is poetry?
Poetry is a form of literary art that uses condensed, rhythmic, and imaginative language to evoke emotions, ideas, and sensory experiences.
Who is the author of Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
What is a colloquialism?
A form of diction that uses words common in everyday speech like talking to our friends.
What is the most popular poem?
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
What are the required margin size of an MLA Essay?
1 inch
What is prose?
Prose is ordinary, everyday language structured in sentences and paragraphs, following standard grammar rather than rhythmic meter or rhyme.
Who is the most influential female author of the 21st century?
Margaret Atwood
What is a sonnet?
A poem with fourteen lines, written in iambic pentameter with each line having ten syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a "volta or specific turn".
Name one of the three best selling fiction novels of all time.
Don Quixote, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Lord of the Rings
What does MLA stand for?
Modern Language Association
Roughly, how many words are in the English Langauge?
1,000,000
Name one of the big four American authors.
Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, and Bayard Taylor
What is a euphemism?
An idiomatic expression which loses its literal meanings and refers to something else in order to hide its unpleasantness.
What is the first novel written in English?
Beowulf
What is a hanging margin?
Used in a MLA works cited, where the first line of the citation takes the full line and the following lines are indented by 1/2 inch.
How long is the longest recorded sentence?
823 words