Terms
This term means "a comparison between two unlike things that uses 'like' or 'as'".
What is a simile?
This part of speech typically signifies a person, place, thing, or idea.
This 1900 book is about a lion, a man made of tin, a witch, a young girl, flying monkeys, and a scarecrow.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
A "paragraph" in poetry.
What is a stanza?
The actor that played Romeo in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
This term means "a figure of speech using exaggeration for emphasis or effect".
What is hyperbole?
This part of speech represents an action word.
What is a verb?
This novel by Suzanne Collins is about a future world in which people compete to their deaths on live TV?
What is The Hunger Games?
This poem by Katharyn Machan includes a different take on the traditional story, "The Frog Prince".
What is "Hazel Tells Laverne"?
This is the year the first Harry Potter movie was released.
When was 2001?
This term means "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result".
What is irony?
The symbol that shows possession is called this.
What is an apostrophe?
This author wrote The Glass Castle.
Who is Jeannette Walls?
When a poem or story references another work of literature or event.
What is an allusion?
This actor played the lead role in October Sky.
Who is Jake Gyllenhaal?
This adjective means "relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice".
What is dystopian?
This word is used to describe the combination of two words to make one shorter word (don't, can't, etc.).
What is a contraction?
This book is the most important to Islam, similar to the Bible in Christianity.
What is the Quran?
This musical artist wrote "Wildflowers".
Who is Tom Petty?
This movie was based on a memoir about a young man whose arm became stuck in a crevasse while he was spelunking, and he had to cut it off.
What is 127 Hours?
This term means "communicating with oneself".
What is intrapersonal communication?
This grammatical term means "more than one".
What is plural?
This book is one of Ms. Sadler's favorites, and it documents a murder in Kansas in the 1950s, profiling the victims and the perpetrators.
What is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote?
This is a poem by Langston Hughes that discusses the dreams of African Americans and what happens when they are deferred.
What is "Harlem"?
Where is Coalwood, West Virginia?