Poetry
A joke that includes a clever play on words
What is a pun
A genre in which authors write their own life story
What is autobiography
This Stephen King novel features an alcoholic writer played by Jack Nicholson in the film adaptation
What is the Shining
Another word for creative nonfiction
What is essay
This wintry poet writes about two paths diverging in a wood
Who is Robert Frost
An exaggeration of an action or idea used for emphasis
What is hyperbole
A humorous story that ridicules in order to accomplish social criticism
What is satire
Of Mice and Men was written by this author
Who is John Steinbeck
Give an example of a modal verb
What is: must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, or might
Words that have similar, but not identical, ending sounds
What is a slant rhyme
The name for when consonant sounds are repeated within a sentence or phrase
What is consonance
A very short story with talking animals and a moral
What is a fable
The first rule of this novel by Chuck Palahniuk is not to talk about it.
What is Fight Club
"Said," "yelled," and "whispered" are all examples of this
What are dialogue tags
A rhythmic pattern of ten syllables that alternate between stressed and unstressed
What is Iambic pentameter
The three subcategories of this literary device include verbal, dramatic, and situational
What is irony
The two subgenres of this main genre include tragedies and comedies
What is drama
The novel Good Omens was co-authored by these two men
Who are Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Latin term for when a story is started "in the middle of things"
What is in media res
A French type of poem that is nineteen lines long and uses the lines of the first stanza as a refrain
What is a villanelle
When an author cites a quotation from another work of literature, often in italics, it is called this.
What is epigraph
This annual horror writing award is named after a famous Victorian Gothic author
What is the Bram Stoker Award
George Orwell's classic novel 1984 was actually published in this year
What is 1949
The name for a sentence or word that reads the same backwards and forwards
What is a palindrome