This is the basic division of the poem, as the paragraph is in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
This is what you call a series of three books.
What is a trilogy?
100
My brother is taller _____ I am.
What is THAN?
100
Brian ran over the sticks leaves guinea pigs and bricks.
What is "Brian ran over the sticks, leaves, guinea pigs, and bricks"?
100
This is the plural spelling of the word VALLEY.
What is VALLEYS?
200
This is an example of a poetic device: The trees clawed at my window in the wind, desperate for my attention.
What is personification?
200
This novelist also wrote THE SATANIC VERSES.
Who was Salman Rushdie?
200
President Obama is the chief executive of our ______________.
What is GOVERNMENT?
200
When Mr. Shapiro ran out of suspenders he made some with a clothing line.
What is "When Mr. Shapiro ran out of suspenders, he made some with a clothing line."
200
This prefix means before.
What is PRE?
300
This is an example of a certain literary device: in the sunny spray of the seashore sloops I saw my lovely lad.
What is alliteration?
300
This is the clever, cunning narrator of the Arabian Nights.
Who is Scheherazad or Shahrazad?
300
When someone runs their own shop, he or she is in ______________.
What is BUSINESS?
300
The Crichtons dog was an unruly, mischievous animal.
What is "The Crichtons' dog was an unruly, mischievous animal"?
300
His written account of going to Asia inspired Columbus to become an explorer, too.
Who was Marco Polo?
400
One of these poets is NOT from New England: Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This is the word for the genre of writing that shows the future of civilization in bleak condition, with over-controlling governments in charge of every aspect of human life.
What is a dystopia?
400
This tool is what you use to cut hair, fabric or paper.
What are SCISSORS?
400
She tried to convince him that the bag was her's, but to no avail.
What is "She tried to convince him that the bag was hers, but to no avail"?
400
In the hero's journey, this is the stage when things are at their worst and the hero is face to face with the adversary.
What is "the belly of the beast"?
500
This poet wrote hundreds of poems that were discovered after the poet's death, including "Hope is the Thing with Feathers."
Who was Emily Dickinson?
500
These are two of Jonas's closest friends in The Giver.
Who are Fiona and Asher?
500
When you don't mean to do something, you do it _______________.
What is ACCIDENTALLY?
500
"These children are interesting specimens Mr. Vitalo said to me.
What is "These children are interesting specimens," Mr. Vitalo said to me.
500
The English we speak is a result of the mixture of these two languages.