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100
What is the form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5?
Haiku
100
"________ Adventures in Wonderland" was inspired by a real girl, who Lewis Carroll knew personally.
Alice
100
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Scarlett O'Hara
100
Who has been the highest-paying author since 2001?
J.K. Rowling
100
What term describes the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a story?
Foreshadowing
200
What New England-born poet was famously prolific, having written nearly 1,800 poems, buthad fewer than a dozen published during her lifetime?
Emily Dickinson
Famous poems include "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
200
In what city would you find the Wizard of Oz?
The Emerald City
200
What is the name of Tom Sawyer's best friend in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Huckleberry Finn
200
What Danish author, from the 1800's, is considered by many to be the most prolific fairy tale writer, writing over 150 fairy tales?
Hans Christian Andersen
200
What literary term describes giving human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract concepts?
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
This character is based on a teddy bear owned by the author's son, Christopher Robin Milne. The characters in the Hundred Acre Wood were inspired by Christopher Robin's other stuffed animals.
Winnie-the-Pooh
300
This author was an ambulance driver in World War I, and his experiences influenced many of his works. He survived two plane crashes in two days while on a safari in Africa in 1954.
Ernest Hemmingway
300
What is the term for a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
Example?
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
This book was created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, as a result of a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words.
"Green Eggs and Ham"
400
Which character from Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is known for her wedding dress and stopped clocks?
Miss Havisham
400
She wrote "Frankenstein" when she was just 18 years old. The novel was inspired by a ghost story competition with her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron.
Mary Shelley
400
What literary device involves the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words?
Alliteration
Example?
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
This character is driven by a vendetta against the titular white whale. His monomaniacal pursuit reflects themes of obsession and revenge.
Captain Ahab
500
This author had to work in a blacking factory at the age of 12 when his father was imprisoned for debt. His experiences with poverty and child labor influenced many of his novels, including "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield."
Charles Dickens
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.
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