Poetry
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Literary Terms
100
What is the form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5?
Haiku
100
What type of animal is Stuart Little?
A mouse (by E.B. White)
100
A brave and loyal young wizard who grows up facing extraordinary challenges, symbolizing courage, friendship, and the fight against evil.
Harry Potter
100
Born in 1947, in Portland, Maine. He has written over 60 novels and 200 short stories, many of which have been adapted into major films and TV series. His work blends horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and psychological drama, often set in small-town America.
Stephen King
Carrie (1974).
The Shining (1977)
Salem’s Lot (1975)
It (1986)
Pet Sematary (1983)
100
What is a brief story that teaches a moral lesson called?
Fable
Definition: A short story teaching a moral, often with animals as characters.
200
Who was the first poet to read at a U.S. presidential inauguration? (JFK, 1961)
Robert Frost
200
In which book do four siblings enter a wardrobe to another world?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
200
A strong-willed woman marked by her community for adultery, she endures shame with dignity and resilience.
Hester Prynne
200
Was home-schooled in a literary environment, with access to a vast family library. She suffered her first mental breakdown after the death of her mother in 1895, followed by the deaths of her half-sister and father. These traumas contributed to her lifelong struggle with mental illness.
Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out (1915)
Jacob's Room (1922)
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
200
What literary term describes giving human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract concepts?
Example: “The wind whispered through the trees.”
Personification
300
What is the term for a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter?
Sonnet
300
Margaret Wise Brown's book was published in 1947 and has sold over 48 million copies. Despite its popularity, it was initially met with mixed reviews and even banned by the New York Public Library for over 25 years.
"Goodnight Moon"
300
A mysterious and wealthy man driven by his obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan, embodying the glamour and tragedy of the American Dream.
Jay Gatsby
300
His aristocratic family’s estate was south of Moscow. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by relatives. He enrolled at Kazan University, studying law and languages, but dropped out due to lack of interest, served as an officer in the Russian army during campaigns in the Caucasus and the Crimean War.
Leo Tolstoy
Major Works
War and Peace (1869)
Anna Karenina (1877)
300
What is the term for a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
“Her smile was as bright as the sun.”
400
In poetry, formal verse has a meter and rhyme scheme. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme scheme. What type of verse does not use meter or rhyme scheme?
Free Verse
400
Before becoming an author, he was a fighter pilot in World War II. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. He was married to actress Patricia Neal
Roald Dahl
Famous works
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
Matilda (1988)
James and the Giant Peach (1961)
The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) (1982)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)
The Witches (1983)
400
Which character from Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is known for her wedding dress and stopped clocks?
Miss Havisham
400
Known for his fierce criticism of totalitarianism and social injustice. He served as a colonial officer in Burma and fought in the Spanish Civil War, experiences that shaped his political views and inspired works
George Orwell
Most Famous Works
1984 (Published 1949)
Animal Farm (Published 1945)
400
What literary device involves the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words?
Alliteration
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
“She sells seashells by the seashore.”
500
"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done" is the opening line of a Walt Whitman poem which serves as an extended metaphor about the demise of what U.S. President?
Abraham Lincoln
O Captain! My Captain! is an elegy written for Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman in 1865, the same year as the death of Abraham Lincoln. In the poem Whitman likened the presidency of Lincoln to a captain steering a ship. The fearful trip was the American Civil War that was ending, but whose end was not formalized.
500
J.M. Barrie's play written in 1904 before being adapted into a novel in 1911. Barrie donated the rights to the story to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London, which continues to benefit from the royalties.
"Peter Pan"
500
A dark, brooding, and vengeful figure whose obsessive love for Catherine Earnshaw defines the novel’s intense romance.
Heathcliff
500
Born in 1955, is an American author famous for his legal thrillers, drawing on his experience as a lawyer. His gripping courtroom dramas and suspenseful plots have sold over 300 million copies worldwide and inspired numerous film and TV adaptations.
John Grisham
Legal Thrillers (Most Popular)
A Time to Kill (1989)
The Firm (1991)
The Pelican Brief (1992)
The Client (1993)
500
What word has two distinct meanings both related to books? The first is simply an organized listing of books (often at the end of a piece of research) and the second is a more systematic description of books as physical objects.
Bibliography