Authors
David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
A young girl who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world.
Alice in Wonderland
A young girl becomes increasingly aware of the hypocrisy and prejudice in her small southern town in the coming-of-age story by Harper Lee.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Who is the best-selling fiction playwright of all time?
Shakespeare
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel.
dystopian novels
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
A black girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend
Starr Carter
story of a young scientist who creates a monster in an scientific experiment
Frankenstein
When was the first Harry Potter book published?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published by Bloomsbury in the U.K. on 26 June 1997.
Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut are known for writing ... novels (genre)
science fiction
Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl
John Steinbeck
In this novel, a young orphan born in a workhouse joins a gang of pickpockets
Oliver Twist
Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel.
1984
These three sisters published their novels under the names Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
Who are Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte?
A central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.
an anti-hero
The Blind Assassin, The Testaments, The Edible Woman, A Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Jane Eyre's best friend at Lowood School
Helen Burns
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Winston Churchill
a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word
a euphemism
Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, this family travels from the dustbowl to California.
What is the Joad family?
A castaway spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued
Robinson Crusoe
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and its author is from Alabama.
To Kill a Mockingbird
two words / terms used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings
an oxymoron