Shakespeare
Set in Denmark, the play describes a Prince and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, who has murdered his father in order to seize his throne.
Hamlet.
A word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Adjective.
Stephenie Meyer's debut novel, tells the story of a normal seventeen-year-old girl who falls in love with a vampire.
Twilight.
The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A figure of speech that directly compares two things, using comparison words such as "like" or "as"
Simile.
What Italian city was the setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Verona.
A word or an expression that generally modifies an adjective, verb, or a word group.
Adverb.
A twelve-year-old boy is on the most dangerous quest of his life with the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, he must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction.
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief.
1984 follows the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of the miserable society of Oceania, who is trying to rebel against the Party and its omnipresent symbol, Big Brother.
George Orwell.
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification.
In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, who eventually kills Macbeth?
Macduff.
Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, for example new and knew.
Homophones.
The nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts, ruled from the Capitol. As punishment for a failed revolt, each district is forced to select two tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18, to fight to the death.
The Hunger Games.
To Kill A Mockingbird chronicles the childhood of Scout and Jem Finch as their father Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of rape.
Harper Lee.
An exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole.
In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which of the young Athenians is first affected by the love potion?
Lysander.
A form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing.
Gerund.
John Green's novel follows a young teenage girl who has been diagnosed with lung cancer and attends a cancer support group where she meets
The Fault In Our Stars.
The Catcher in the Rye follows the story of Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy who has been expelled from his prep school and is wandering through New York City over a few days, struggling to come to terms with the complexities of growing up.
J.D. Salinger.
The juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.
Irony.
In Romeo and Juilet, he gets the point from Tybalt, who makes worms' meat of him.
Mercutio
A word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.
Anagrams.
A novel by James Dashner. It takes place in a world suffering from a coronal mass ejection and whose surviving civilians fight to avoid an apocalyptic illness called the Flare.
The Maze Runner.
Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker.
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
A narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
Allegory.