American Authors
British Authors
American Poets
British Poets
Grammar
100
Author of books about Tom and Huck.
Who was Mark Twain?
100
Author of OLIVER TWIST and A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
She stayed in her bedroom in Amherst, Massachusetts most of the time and wrote poetry.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
100
This British poet and author, born and raised in India, wrote a book about Mowgli and a poem called "If."
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
100
Thwe two parts of a sentence are subject and _________.
What is a predicate?
200
Wrote FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA and THE SUN ALSO RISES.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
Author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
Who is Jane Austen?
200
The last two lines of one his most famous poems is "And miles to go before I sleep."
Who is Robert Frost?
200
British sisters who lived in the 1800s and wrote novels and poetry.
Who are the Brontes? (Anne, Emily and Charlotte)
200
There are ______ parts of speech.
What is eight?
300
Wrote about Ahab pursuing the great white whale, Moby Dick.
Who was Herman Melville?
300
Author of WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
Who is Emily Bronte?
300
Black American poet who wrote about the plight of his mother in "Madam and the Rent Man."
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
This British author wrote poetry plus 37 well-known plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Four kinds of sentences are:
What are declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences?
400
Inspired by his Puritan ancestry to write books like THE SCARLET LETTER.
Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?
400
Wrote books about Middle Earth like THE HOBBIT.
Who is J. R. R. Tolkien?
400
A Fireside poet, inspired by the Revolution to write about Paul Revere.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
400
Wrote THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
400
A verb form ending in -ing and used as a noun is called a _________.
What is a gerund?
500
Book by John Steinbeck about a family traveling from Oklahoma to California in the 1930s.
What is THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
500
British mathematician who wrote a book about a girl named Alice.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
500
Poet who does not use capital letters in his name.
Who is e. e. cummings?
500
Name the epic poem that features Hrothgar and Grendel.
What is BEOWULF?
500
What are the two types of clauses?
What is an independent and subordinate clause?
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