Literature
What is The Jungle?
Rene Descartes popularized the phrase "Cogito, ergo sum," which translates to this in English.
What is "I think; therefore I am"?
This acronym may jog students' memory of the coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
This woman, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, is the best-selling novelist of all time.
Who is Agatha Christie?
This 1927 film with Al Jolson was the first "talkie," incorporating lip-synchronous singing and speech.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This Brontë sister wrote Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell.
Who is Emily?
This German philosopher asserted that "God is dead" (a pretty bold statement for the time).
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
English teachers love having their students read this Shirley Jackson story about a small town's gruesome tradition.
What is "The Lottery"?
In his book On Writing, Stephen King advises that "The road to hell is paved with" these parts of speech.
What are adverbs?
This alphabet system is the standard representation of all possible vowel and consonant sounds across the world's languages.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
In 2022, this controversial author was stabbed onstage before he could give a lecture in New York.
Who is Salman Rushdie?
This ethical "-ism" contends that actions should produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This tutor of Plato developed a namesake teaching method of asking questions to expose students' contradictory ideas.
Who is Socrates?
If you want something lighthearted, write one of these five-line poems with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
This art of argumentation originated with Aristotle, who wrote a treatise on methods like logos, ethos, and pathos.
What is rhetoric?
Spoiler Alert: This monster, a descendant of Cain, is killed by Beowulf (evoking a mother's wrath).
Who is Grendel?
This branch of philosophy deals with the methods and validity of knowledge.
What is epistemology?
This adjective, which precedes "victory" to mean a hard-won battle, also describes a metrical foot with two unaccented syllables.
What is pyrrhic?
If you want to throw readers right into the action, start your story "in the middle of things," AKA this Latin phrase.
What is in medias res?
This 1963 book by Betty Friedan is often regarded as the inaugural work of the second-wave feminist movement.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
This current U.S. Poet Laureate was the first Latina to be appointed to the position.
Who is Ada Limón?
This Scholastic philosopher's work Summa Theologica stacks up to more than 1.5 million words.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
This professional organization headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, holds annual conventions and offers resources for K-12 educators.
What is the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)?
This weekly American magazine has published short fiction like Alice Munro's "Passion" and Zadie Smith's "Permission to Enter" since its 1925 founding by Harold W. Ross.
What is The New Yorker?
Though he directed films like Heart of Darkness and Swiss Family Robinson, Citizen Kane is largely considered his masterpiece.
Who is Orson Welles?