Authors
She wrote Frankenstein. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft. Her husband was Percy Shelley.
Mary Shelley
The "voice" that tells the story.
Narrator
Romeo and Juliet
The Lord of the [...] is J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal fantasy epic.
Rings
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”, says the count about baying wolves, in this Bram Stoker novel.
Dracula
Bridgerton owes everything to the grandmother of costume drama and the modern love story. She wrote Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen
The audience mainly views the story through this main character's eyes.
Protagonist
The Danish prince who talks to a skull, and seeks to avenge his murdered father. It inspired The Lion King.
Hamlet
F. Scott Fitzgerald comments on the American dream in The [...] Gatsby.
Great
This smug castaway calls his "Indian" friend "my man Friday".
Robinson Crusoe
The father of dystopian fiction. He wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.
George Orwell
The opponent of the main character, often a villain.
Antagonist
Superstitious actors call it "the Scottish play". This tragedy centres around an evil noble who murders his king.
Macbeth
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to [...] is not about the loss of limbs.
Arms
The grumpy Scrooge calls Christmas "humbug" in this Charles Dickens novella.
A Christmas Carol
Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte, the eldest of the [...] sisters.
Brontë
The central idea of a story - what it is "really" about.
Theme
This tragedy's main character is a Moorish commander in the Venetian army. His name is the title and the name of a board game.
Othello
Douglas Adams' postmodern absurdist comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the [...] begins with the destruction of Earth.
Galaxy
"Nevermore" is the only thing the titular bird says in this Edgar Allan Poe poem.
The Raven
This author, often called "the Bard of Avon", never wrote a single novel.
William Shakespeare
This wall is broken when a work of fiction openly acknowledges to the audience that it is fiction.
The fourth wall
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war", screams Mark Anthony after the titular character is murdered in this historical play.
Julius Caesar
The title of the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About [...] became an idiom for making a big fuss over unimportant things.
Nothing
"I am a free human being with an independent will" declares the titular character in this proto-feminist novel.
Jane Eyre