Poetry
Name the four-lined stanza that often rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
Name the country of Shakespeare's birth.
(Bonus: Name the village, too.)
What is England?
(Bonus: What is Stratford-upon-Avon?)
The first and last name of Harry's student rival at Hogwarts.
Who is Draco Malfoy?
The definition of a morpheme.
What is the smallest grammatical unit of a language that has meaning and cannot be further divided?
The part of speech for the word <at>.
What is a preposition?
The number of syllables in a haiku.
(Bonus: The country where the haiku originated.)
What is seventeen?
(Bonus: What is Japan?)
The title of the play is about two teenage, star-crossed lovers who both die at the end under tragic circumstances.
(Bonus: Name the country where the play is set.)
What is Romeo and Juliet?
(Bonus: What is Italy?)
Name the four houses of Hogwarts.
What are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin?
Three types of morphemes.
What are prefixes, bases, and suffixes?
(Also, connecting letters)
"In grammar, a word...that is used to show the relationship between other words in a sentence or phrase."
(Bonus: Provide five examples.)
What is a function word?
(Bonus: Answers will vary.)
Name the type of poetry that uses meter but does not rhyme.
What is blank verse?
Name Shakespeare's play that contains the following line: "Double, double toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."
(Bonus: The setting of this play.)
What is Macbeth?
(Bonus: What is Scotland?)
Name Draco Malfoy's two henchmen at Hogwarts.
Who are Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle?
Name the word sum <forgetting>.
What is <for-> + <get> + <t> + <-ing>
The country where a poem called the Tanka originated.
(Bonus: How many syllables are in a Tanka?)
What is Japan?
(Bonus: 31 syllables.)
Name the type of poetry that help make Shakespeare famous.
What is a sonnet?
The number of plays that Shakespeare wrote.
What is 37?
The number of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
(Bonus: Name three of these Horcruxes.)
What is seven?
(Bonus: What are Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Nagini, and Harry Potter.)
Define an assimilated prefix.
(Bonus: Give an example of a word using an assimilated prefix.)
What is a prefix whose final letter is changed to the first letter of the next morpheme?
(Bonus: e.g. <collection>, <assignment>, etc...)
The punctuation mark Emily Dickinson included in many of her poems.
What is the dash?
Name the poet who wrote about the New England countryside in poems like "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "The Road not Taken".
Who is Robert Frost?
The number of sonnets Shakespeare wrote.
What is 154?
The names of Harry Potter's children.
(Bonus: Provide their full names.)
Who are, "James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter, and Lily Luna Potter"
(Bonus: See above)
Name the word sum for <mononymous>.
(Bonus: Give the definition of <mononymous>.)
What is <mono-> (replace the o) + <onym> + -<ous>?
(Bonus: A person known by one name (e.g Madonna))
Name the poet who wrote the poem “Mother to Son” which is about a mother who advises her son that life is hard, but it’s important not to give up.
(Bonus: Name the country where this poet was born.)
Who is Langston Hughes?
(What is the USA?)