Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Poetry
Shakespeare & Short Stories
Film
Journeys
100

His name was Bruno.

What was the name of the main character or protagonist in the novel?

100

This poetic device is when the words "like" or "as" are used to compare two things for effect.

What is a simile?

100

These are the names of the main character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

What are Viola and Cesario?

100

This is when the camera is above a person or setting to make them look weak or vulnerable.

What is a high-angle shot?

100

This is the name of a very popular local Phuket blog that has been operating since 2006.

What is "Jamie's Phuket Blog"?

200

This was the name of the main character's best friend he met later in the novel.

What is Shmuel?

200

In this figurative poetic device, we describe an object like a person to make it more impactful.

What is personification?

200

This is Hamlet's best friend who doesn't die at the end of the play.

Who is Antonio?

200

This is when a camera is rotated horizontally or vertically.

What is camera panning or tilting?

200

This is a regularly updated web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.

What is a blog?

300

This is the name of his new home that Bruno mistakenly pronounces.

What is "Out-With"?

300

This poetic sound device requires the use of similar sounds or half-rhymes for effect.

What is alliteration?

300

Murder, revenge, violence, and ambition.

What are the main themes of Shakespeare's Macbeth?

300

This was the director of the film Hugo.

Who is Martin Scorsese?

300

Fantastic, horrendous, historical.

What is the example of a positive, negative, and neutral adjective?

400

This is the name of the gardener that helps Bruno when he gets hurt.

What is Pavel?

400

This structural poetic device is when a full sentence is split across two separate lines for the purposes of effect.

What is enjambment?

400

This character in Hamlet was the brother of Ophelia and the son of Polonius.

Who is Laertes?

400

 This is a noise which has a source on-screen in film.

What is diegetic sound?

400

These are three types of Persuasive Devices used in travel writing.

What are (any three): Rhetorical Question, Rule of 3, Pronouns, Statistics, Facts, Opinions, Imperatives, Emotive Imagery, Hyperbole, and Anecdote?

500

Bruno does this to help Shmuel find his father.

Why does Bruno go under the fence at the end?

500

This is a fixed number of lines of verse that form a unit, or paragraph, in a poem.

What is a stanza?

500

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble."

What did the witches say in Macbeth?

500

These are the two colour schemes or palettes we usually see in films.

What is monochromatic and complementary?

500

These are the four types of blogs.

What are: travelling abroad, 'backyard' blogger, travel-related issues, and travel products?