Literary Terms
Film
Novels
Shakespeare
Pop Culture
100
This term describes a comparison using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
100
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What is Jurassic Park?
100
This is the central character's main opponent or force working against them.
What is the antagonist?
100
This poetic form contains 14 lines and a fixed rhyme scheme (often ABAB).
What is a sonnet?
100
This fantasy series begins with a boy discovering he is a wizard and attending a magical school.
What is Harry Potter?
200
This literary device gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
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What is Snow White?
200
A genre of novel that imagines a flawed future society.
What is dystopian fiction?
200
This term refers to a humorous character who lightens the mood in a tragedy.
What is the comedic relief?
200
This modern adventure series written by Rick Riordan follows a demigod who learns he is the son of Poseidon.
What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
300
This type of character changes significantly throughout the story.
Dynamic character
300
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What is E.T.?
300
This classic dystopian novel by George Orwell features a world ruled by Big Brother.
What is 1984?
300
Identify this play:
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life"
What is Romeo & Juliet?
300
This dystopian trilogy features a heroine named Katniss Everdeen who becomes the face of a rebellion.
What is The Hunger Games?
400
Identify the blanks in the following image:
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement
400
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What is Legally Blonde?
400
This best selling novel features a young girl named Scout Finch and her father Atticus, a lawyer fighting against injustice.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
400
Identify the following play:
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones"
What is Julius Caesar?
400
This novel opens with Bilbo Baggins being swept into an adventure by a group of dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf?
What is Lord of the Rings?
500
This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
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What is The Greatest Showman?
500
This novel tells the story of a creature created by a scientist, who must face rejection from society.
What is Frankenstein?
500
Identify the following play:
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake"
What is Macbeth?
500
This book series features four siblings - Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy - who enter a magical world through a wardrobe.
What is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?