William Shakespeare
This happened in England.
Where was Shakespeare born?
A novel set in the 1930's about a black man who is falsely accused of abusing a white woman.
What is "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Two lines of a poem that work together.
What is a "couplet"?
Famous Spanish novel about an old man who chases windmills and fights them like dragons.
What is "Don Quixote"?
To separate 2 sentences with a conjunction, introductory clause, or to set apart a series of things.
When do you use a "comma"?
At least 37 that we know of.
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
This Puritan novel from the 1690's forces a woman to wear a red "A" on her clothes as a form of punishment.
What is "The Scarlet Letter"?
The voice of the poem, NOT the author.
Who is the "speaker" of a poem?
Famous slave narrative about a man who learned to read & eventually bought is own freedom.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
A punctuation mark that shows possession, such as "Mark's backpack".
What is an "apostrophe"?
He was a one-man show: he wrote the screenplay, acted in it, directed the play & owned his own theater company.
Why is Shakespeare so famous, even 400 years later?
Famous book about a poor white boy and a runaway slave who foster a friendship along the Mississippi River.
What is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
A figure of speech where something is compared to another object.
What is a "metaphor"?
Personal narrative about a young man's story of life in Auschwitz Prison Camp during WW2
What is the book, "Night"?
A punctuation mark used to connect 2 related sentences.
What is a "semi-colon"?
A nickname of Shakespeare that means "A friend who likes writing poems".
American novelist who often wrote about survival, & often set his novels in the Yukon territory of Northern Canada.
Who is Jack London?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line, such as ABAB.
What is "rhyme scheme"?
An ancient Greek poem & epic about the hero's 10-year journey home from the Trojan War.
What is "The Odyssey"?
This punctuation mark is used to join words, & this punctuation mark is a fancy comma.
What is the difference between a "hyphen" & a "dash"?
The Puerto Rican musical, "West Side Story" is based on this Shakespeare play.
What is "Romeo & Juliet"?
Famous novel by Steinbeck that tells the story of two ranch hands in California during the Great Depression,
What is "Of Mice & Men"?
A poem composed of 14 lines, usually with 10 syllables per line.
What is a "sonnet"?
This is the most translated book and most frequently purchased book in the world.
What is "The Bible"?
A punctuation mark used when omitting a word, phrase, line or paragraph in a quoted passage.
What is an "ellipsis"?