Authors
Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Oscar Wilde
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” This line opens which novel?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Applying human qualities to non-human things
Personification
Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and __________?
King Lear
What are the names of the three famous Brontë sisters?
Anne, Charlotte, and Emily
Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared
A Study in Scarlet
A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
Metaphor
A poem written by Lord Byron. Tells the story of a very promiscuous man whose pride comes back to bite him
Don Juan
Which two cities are the settings for Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities?
Paris and London
Which author wrote Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park?
Jane Austen
The first novel of Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
Simile
What epic poem is considered the most famous work in Old English, despite the poem taking place in Scandinavia instead of England?
Beowulf
What pen name did Mary Anne Evans write her novels under?
George Eliot
The author of many works including L'Allegro, Lycidas and Paradise Lost, who is considered to have been the last great poet of the English Renaissance?
John Milton
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Onomatopoeia
John Keats wrote what poem to a singing bird?
Ode to A Nightingale
Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature?
The Elizabethen age
Author of The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
Emily Brontë’s novel tells of a tragic romance between two lovers — Catherine and Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights
Writing that invokes the reader’s senses with descriptive word choice to create a more vivid and realistic recreation of the scene in their mind.
Imagery
The first tragedy written in English
Gorboduc
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Geoffrey Chaucer