Famous Literary Works
In this William Golding novel, a group of stranded British schoolboys quickly descend into savagery on a deserted island.
What is Lord of the Flies?
This 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August adapts Roald Dahl's story about a quirky chocolate maker's early days.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor; it is not meant to be taken literally.
This is the primary reason an author chooses to write a text, usually categorized as to inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is the author's purpose?
Adapted from Louis Sachar's book, the main character in this film is sent to Camp Green Lake and told to dig holes to build character.
Who is is Stanley Yelnats?
In this F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, Nick Carraway narrates the tragic story of a mysterious millionaire on Long Island in the 1920s.
What is The Great Gatsby?
Emma Watson stars as Belle in this live-action adaptation of a French fairy tale.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
A humorous, five-line poem with a specific AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
Located at the front of a book, this list breaks down the chapters and sections in the order they appear.
Lois Lowry's dystopian novel about a boy chosen to learn about pain and pleasure from an elder was made into a 2014 movie.
What is The Giver?
George Orwell warned of a totalitarian future run by Big Brother in this iconic 1949 dystopian novel.
What is 1984?
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, this young actor plays the webslinger attending high school in Queens.
Who is Tom Holland?
The author's attitude toward the subject or the audience of the poem (e.g., playful, serious, gloomy).
What is tone?
This mini-dictionary is placed at the end of a book to define the bold, specialized vocabulary words used in the text.
What is the glossary?
Name the literary device: When a speaker says one thing but means the exact opposite, often used as sarcasm...
What is verbal irony?
This is the name of the annual event where children are randomly selected by lottery to participate in the Hunger Games.
What is the Reaping?
Neil Gaiman's spooky children's novella was adapted into a visually stunning 2009 stop-motion film about an alternate world behind a secret door.
What is Coraline?
He wrote the spooky poem "The Raven," featuring a bird that repeatedly utters the word "Nevermore."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This specific sub-genre focuses only on one specific memory, time period, or meaningful experience from the author's life.
What is a memoir?
This is the pigment that gives plants their green color and helps them absorb sunlight during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This Charles Dickens classic famously opens with the contrasting phrase, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
This 1999 high school comedy starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger is an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
What is 10 Things I Hate About You?
At age 22, she became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" in 2021.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Langston Hughes was a pioneer of which literary art form, which fused the rhythms of traditional African American music with poetry?
A) Ragtime Prose
B) Blues Ballads
C) Jazz Poetry
D) Gospel Sonnets
What is: C?
In chess, this piece can move any number of squares diagonally, but cannot move straight forward, backward, or sideways.
What is the bishop?