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Who is Scarlett Johansson married to?
Colin Jost
Metaphor
Comparing two things without using like or as
Who wrote the Percy Jackson series?
Rick Riordan
What genre is the Hunger Games trilogy?
Dystopian Fiction
What is a noun?
person, place or thing
The popular football player boyfriend of Taylor Swift
Travis Kelce
Irony
Using a contrast between how things appear and how they actually are
What is the title of the second novel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
The Two Towers
What is the best selling YA novel of all time?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
When do you use an apostrophe?
to show possession, create contractions, or indicate missing letters
Who won best new artist at the 2025 GRAMMY'S?
Chappell Roan
Motif
a recurring element in a story that holds some symbolic or conceptual meaning
In Animal Farm, what was the name of the pig leader?
Napoleon
Who is credited for creating the Gothic Horror genre?
Edgar Allan Poe
What is an antonym?
a word that has the opposite meaning than another word
What football team won the 2025 Superbowl?
Philadelphia Eagles
Allegory
symbols, characters, or events to represent abstract ideas or themes
In Romeo and Juliet, What is Romeo's last name?
Montague
What author is known as the "King of Horror"?
Stephen King
What is the term for "above, before, through, from" and similar words?
Preposition
Who is "Not Like Us" about?
Drake.
Assonance
repetition of similar vowel sounds within a word
Which book holds the record of being the most stolen book from public libraries?
Guinness Book of World Records
What book is considered the first Sci-Fi novel?
Frankenstein
What is a controversial piece of punctuation named after a university?
Oxford Comma