Books
A children's book featuring two children visited by a cat with a red and white striped hat.
What is The Cat in the Hat?
The author who wrote the critically acclaimed fantasy series with a young wizard named Harry Potter as its protagonist.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
The first line of the famous children’s book by Dr. Suess named Green Eggs and Ham.
What is “I am Sam”?
A written technique comparing two unlike things together.
What is a metaphor?
An appeal to one’s trustworthiness using two forms which are an “appeal to character” and “appeal to credibility.”
What is ethos?
Harry Potter’s best female friend.
Who is Hermione Granger?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
An American classic written by F. Scott Fitzgerald where protagonist Nick Carraway moves to East Egg, New York and observes its socialites.
What is The Great Gatsby?
A British classic by George Orwell featuring the following famous quote “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
What is Animal Farm?
Comparison using two unlike things together using “as” and “like.”
What is a simile?
An appeal to an audience’s capacity for empathy.
What is pathos?
Classic novel beginning with a boat being wrecked in the middle of nowhere where a group of young boys try to survive on an Island.
What is The Lord of the Flies?
The author of the critically acclaimed vampire-romance Twilight Saga.
Who is Stephenie Meyer?
A famous line shouted by a gray wizard when trying to stop Balrog of Morgoth by destroying a bridge thus saving his group of adventurers called the Fellowship.
What is “You shall not pass!”?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
An “appeal to reason” using logic and data to support its claim.
What is logos?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Guy Montag’s occupation in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
What is a Fireman?
A coming- of-age epistolary novel by Stephen Chbosky depicting Charlie, an observant introvert, and his journey through a Pittsburg suburban high school navigating adolescence and adulthood.
What is The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A 16th and 17th century English playwright who wrote this famous quote in Hamlet; where Hamlet contemplates life or death with “To be, or not to be.”
Who is William Shakespeare?
The attribution of human traits to nonhuman objects, animals, abstract qualities or things.
What is personification?
A logical fallacy which forces only two solutions to a problem while omitting and disregarding other solutions.
What is the false dilemma fallacy?
(false dichotomy, false binary)
A fictional town in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
An English author who wrote dystopian social science fiction novel 1984, depicting Winston Smith as a low-ranking member of “the Party” who is frustrated with the ever-watchful eyes of the ominous "Big Brother."
Who is George Orwell?
The title of the American classic epistolary novel by Alice Walker and finds protagonist Celie saying, “folks don't like nobody being too proud, or too free” when she overheard Old Mister complaining about Shug Avery being too free-spirited.
What is The Color Purple?
A figure of speech posing two contradictory ideas or qualities at the same time. E.G. “Angelic devil.”
What is oxymoron?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A logical fallacy in which someone distorts an argument or point in an extreme way and attacks that false point as if it were the initial argument.
What is the strawman fallacy?