Shakespeare
This Shakespearean play features the star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona.
Romeo and Juliet
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
Simile
The wizarding world of Hogwarts was created by this British author.
J.K. Rowling
This girl falls down a rabbit hole into a strange world.
Alice in Wonderland
This mark ends a sentence that tells something.
Full stop
The ambitious Scottish general who becomes king after hearing a prophecy.
Macbeth
The central message or underlying idea of a work.
Theme
This book by Jeff Kinney is written like a kid’s diary.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
This boy never grows up and lives in Neverland.
Peter Pan
This mark is used at the end of a question.
Question mark
This comedic play includes fairies, a love potion, and a character named Bottom.
Midsummer Night's Dream
A character who contrasts with the protagonist.
Foil
In this dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins, Katniss competes in deadly games.
This man steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
Robin Hood
This mark shows excitement or strong feeling.
Exclamation mark
Shakespeare’s only play set in ancient Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
Dramatic irony
In this book, a young girl named Coraline finds a strange door that leads to another world.
Coraline
This detective uses clues and logic to solve mysteries with his friend Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Always capitalize this when you start it at the beginning of a sentence.
First letter
This tragic hero’s fatal flaw is indecision, expressed in the “To be or not to be” soliloquy.
Hamlet
Also known as the rule of threes it is agreed in rhetoric that three is a satisfying number to humans – it feels complete.
Tricolon
This book is about a boy named Percy who discovers he is a half-blood and goes on a quest with Greek gods.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
This monster is created in a lab and comes to life in a famous novel by Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein's monster
This mark is used to show possession or in contractions, like in don’t or Sarah’s.
Apostrophe