Literary Devices
Literary Periods
Authors
Opening Lines
Contemporary Bestsellers
100
"He's a pig."
What is a metaphor?
100
Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Robert Browning.
What is the Victorian Era?
100
American author, essayist, lecturer and humorist born Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
100
"The subtitle of this 2005 bestseller is “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything."
What is Freakonomics?
200
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
What is alliteration?
200
William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and Charlotte Bronte.
What is the Romantic Era?
200
English author known for word play, logic and fantasy as well as Through the Looking Glass.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
200
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
What is Pride and Prejudice?
200
This series was conceived during the author’s train ride to London in 1990.
What is Harry Potter?
300
“The White House released a report this morning regarding budget cuts."
What is synecdoche?
300
Shakespeare and John Donne.
What is the Jacobean Period?
300
Russian-born political activist and full-time volunteer for the Presidential campaign of Wendell Wilkie.
Who is Ayn Rand?
300
"All children, except one, grow up."
What is Peter Pan?
300
This 2003 novel follows symbologist Robert Langdon’s investigation of a murder in Paris.
What is The Da Vinci Code?
400
“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
What is an oxymoron?
400
H.G. Wells, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot.
What is the Modern Period?
400
This author's only published work was originally written in Dutch and published posthumously.
Who is Anne Frank?
400
"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
What is Macbeth?
400
This trilogy follows an eccentric Swedish twenty-something with a photographic memory who is accused of murder.
What is the Millennium Series?
500
“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”
What is assonance?
500
John Dryden.
What is the Restoration Era?
500
English pioneer of modernism who experimented with "stream of consciousness" before committing suicide in 1941.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
500
"124 was spiteful."
What is Beloved?
500
1992 book which focuses on communication differences between the sexes.
What is Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?
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