Name That Author
Literary Devices
Name That Novel
Where Does This Character Belong?
Poetry
100

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Shakespeare (from Macbeth)

100

What literary device involves giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals?

Personification
100

Which novel by Harper Lee tells the story of Scout Finch and explores themes of justice and prejudice in the American South?

To Kill a Mockingbird

100

Romeo Montague

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

100

A direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as." It states that one thing is another.

Metaphor

200

"May the odds be ever in your favor"

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

200

I am a sentence or word that reads the same backward as forward

Palindrome

200

In a seemingly utopian society, 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the "Receiver of Memory." In his community, all pain, joy, and individual choice have been eliminated.

The Giver by Lois Lowry

200

Hermione Granger

Harry Potter

200

Descriptive language that appeals to the reader's five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to create a vivid picture

Imagery

300

"I'm a demigod. And I'm pretty sure I'm about to die." 

Percy Jackson

300

A comparison between two different things using "like" or "as."

Simile

300

August Pullman, a boy with severe facial differences, has been homeschooled his whole life. This is the story of his first year in a mainstream middle school.

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

300

Katniss Everdeen

The Hunger Games

300

The use of an object, person, or idea to represent a deeper, more significant meaning.

Symbolism

400

"Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are the unluckiest."

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

400

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or comic effect.

Hyperbole

400

A heartfelt story about an unlikely friendship between two outcasts. Max is a large, kind-hearted boy with a learning disability, and Kevin, nicknamed "Freak," is a brilliant boy with a rare bone disease.

Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

400

Frodo Baggins

Lord of the Rings

400

A group of lines that form a unit in a poem. It's similar to a paragraph in an essay.

Stanza

500

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."

The Giver by Lois Lowry

500

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

Alliteration

500

Bruno, an 8-year-old German boy, is forced to move from his home in Berlin to a new house next to a mysterious "farm." He soon befriends a boy named Shmuel, who lives on the other side of a fence and wears striped pajamas.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

500

Ponyboy Curtis

The Outsiders

500

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem. It's usually identified by assigning letters to each line.

Rhyme Scheme

M
e
n
u