19th Century Mystery Texts
Name of the castle in "The red room"
What is Lorraine Castle?
Action word in a sentence.
What is a verb?
Name of the Christmas film that features a child named Kevin.
What is Home Alone?
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The time and place of a story.
What is Setting?
The state is "an arrest" set in.
What is Kentucky?
Sentence type with one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
Name of the Actor that plays the character buddy the elf.
What is Will Farrell?
Giving human characteristics to something not human.
What is personification?
This genre often includes crime and foreshadowing.
What is mystery?
Name of the Jailer that Orrin Brewer kills at the beginning of "an arrest".
What is Burton Duff?
Type of sentence with one independent and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This famous story by Charles Dickens is set at Christmas.
What is a Christmas Carol?
This category of literary technique focuses on the organization of a text.
What is structural techniques?
This narrative perspective is known for being the voice of a narrator.
What is 3rd person?
This era in history was know for its fascination with science, crime and the supernatural. (looking for a named not dates)
What is the victorian era?
Writing about something as it happened in the past.
What is Past Tense?
Name of the actor who plays the live action version of the Grinch.
What is Jim Carrey?
Language that using a strong emotion to provoke an emotion response from the reader.
What is emotive language?
This genre often includes intense emotions, the supernatural, and isolated settings.
What is Gothic?
Names of the two authors of "the red room" and "an arrest"
What is Ambrose Bierce and H.G. Wells?
Name of the connecting word in a compound sentence.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
The dutch name for Father Christmas or Santa?
What is Sinterklaas?
Name of technique where two "s" sounds are placed purposely together to create a hissing noise.
What is sibilance?
This is the message or main idea that the author wants the reader to understand.
What is Theme?