English Terms
Books turned into movies
Literary Heroes
Medieval Literature
International Literature
100

A story written by someone about the events of their own life.

What is an autobiography?

100

Rich and grumpy old businessman must correct his mistakes on Christmas Eve with the help of spirits who show him the effects of his wrongdoing and greed.

What is A Christmas Carol?

100

Young girl must defend her family and home from an oppressive government by fighting in a competition for entertainment.

Who is Katniss Everdeen?

100

The most famous medieval story from Scandinavia featuring a warrior who must fight people and mythological creatures across Denmark.

What is Beowulf?

100

Book about an authoritarian government controlling England.

What is 1984?

200

Overused phrase or expression.

What is a cliche?

200

Lucky child gets a tour of a mysterious candy maker's factory after winning a contest.

What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

200

Greek hero who leaves home to fight in the Trojan War and fights his way home through monsters and challenges sent by Gods to stop him.

Who is Odysseus?

200

Book by Geoffrey Chaucer about an unlikely group of pilgrims in South England.

What is The Canterbury Tales?

200

Book that described World War One from the perspective of a soldier fighting in it from a young idealistic man, to a hardened, experienced soldier.

What is All Quiet on the Western Front?

300

Person or object that stands for something else.

What is a symbol?

300

A young girl falls into a surreal world after following a rabbit underground.

What is Alice in Wonderland?

300

The ultimate detective who lives in Victorian London, England and provides rational explanations to crimes with no explanation or thought to have supernatural causes.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

300

Story of 2 star crossed lovers who die for each others love.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

300

Book telling the story of a medieval knight in Spain that chases windmills and generally makes a fool of himself while taking himself all too seriously.

What is Don Quixote?

400

Human qualities to non human things.

What is personification?

400

Group of friends must travel across a dangerous fantasy world on a quest to destroy a piece of jewelry.

What is Lord of the Rings?

400

A boy who lives on an island located between 2 stars in the night sky who brings other children to stay on the island to battle a pirate captain and to let his friends stay kids forever like him.

Who is Peter Pan?

400

Story of a prince of Denmark who asks a skull "To be or not to be, that is the question."

What is Hamlet?

400

Story from Afghanistan of a boy who enjoys flying kites in a local celebration who is forced to flee his hometown because of war.

The Kite Runner.

500

Contrast between what is expected and what happens.

What is irony?

500

A boy known for an old injury to his forehead must adjust to life in a parallel world where he is famous for almost dying and being an orphan.

What is Harry Potter?

500

A young girl in the Southern US has fun with friends, discovers the source of stories of a ghost haunting in an old neighborhood house and witnesses the trial of a local man who is falsely accused of a crime.

Who is Scout Finch?

500

Story by Dante Allegri describing layers of the underworld, as well as purgatory and heaven too.

What is Divine Comedy?

500

Book describing a search on a river for a military commander who disappeared into the jungle after being sent by a foreign country to create a colony. Was also the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now.

What is The Heart of Darkness?

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