Vocabulary
singersong (a synonym for a page-turner)
What is engrossing?
This author is famous for Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
This part of the book lists the chapter titles and the page each chapter starts on.
What is the Table of Contents?
This person invented the printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
culoramfi (something that follows a formula)
What is formulaic?
This author is famous for the statement "The Horror, the Horror" in "The Heart of Darkness"
Joseph Conrad
This is a list of all the sources for the material used in the book
What is the Bibliography?
This is the job of a person who used to handwrite every book before the printing press
What is a scribe?
tingervi (a synonym for exciting)
What is riveting?
This author is known for writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Leon Tolstoi
A removable paper cover, usually illustrated, for protecting the book and usually giving information about the book and the author.
What is the dust jacket (book jacket)?
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne wears this letter on her dress
What is the letter A?
icchle (run-of-the - mill)
What is cliché?
She is best known for writing To Kill a Mockingbird
Lateral part of a book usually indicating the title and author.
What is the spine?
Which book by Margaret Atwood was written in 1984 and it is a dystopia?
Follow up question which book bears an altered eponymous title of the date in which Margaret novel was written?
The Handmaid's Tale
1894
pinidis (no taste)
What is insipid?
This famous opening: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'"
is by ..... and it appears in .... which novel?
(Both have to be right)
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
The inside margin of the pages of a book; the inner margins of facing pages when book is open.
What is the gutter?
This is the opening of which novel?
light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Lolita by Nabokov