Literary terms
Speeches and rhetoric
Crime and Dystopia
Americana
Britain
100

An all-knowing narrator

What is omniscient

100

An appeal to the emotions

What is pathos

100

Sherlock Holmes' home address

What is 221B Baker Street 

100

The first American president

Who is George Washington

100

The name of the British queen

What is Elizabeth II

200

Literary term for the hero in a story

What is protagonist

200

Ethos

What is being trustworthy

200

The temperature at which paper burns

What is 451 Fahrenheit

200

American president who was assasinated in 1963

Who is John F. Kennedy

200

Ship that sailed into an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage.

What is The Titanic?

300

A hint at something that will happen later in the story

What is foreshadowing

300

Something used to appeal in this sentence: "As you can clearly see from these statistics, the logical thing to do ..."

What is logos

300

English write who wrote 1984

Who is George Orwell

300

Name of American president who was an actor in 1940s and 1950s.

Who is Ronald Reagan?

300

The name of the British flag.

What is Union Jack?

400

Literary term for one or more topics that a text discusses or addresses

What is theme

400

A rhetorical device that puts two opposite ideas against each other

What is antithesis

400

The number to call if you'd like a trip to the catbox

What is 2BR02B

400

The name of an American politician who is a former presidential candidate, the wife of a former president, and herself former secretary of state.

Who is Hillary Clinton

400

Famous politician who invented the term The Iron Curtain

Who is Winston Churchill

500

Figurative language that compares two things using "is"

What is a metaphor

500

A rhetorical device that opens sentences by repeating the same word or phrase

What is anaphora

500

Author who invented the crime genre.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

500

The only American president to serve for more than two terms (he was in office from 1932 to 1945).

Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

500

Ringo Starr's real name

What is Richard Starkey?

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