Literary terms
Speeches and rhetoric
Americana
Britain
Horror
100

Literary term for the hero in a story

What is protagonist

100

An appeal to the emotions

What is pathos

100

American president who was the first president with Afro-American background

Who is Barack Obama?

100

The name of the British flag.

What is Union Jack?

100

The writer who wrote the Boogeyman

Who is Stephen King

200

An all-knowing narrator

What is omniscient

200

The three main things that you try to achieve with a speech

What is entertain, persuade or inform

200

American cultural value based on the phrase "in America, talk is cheap."

What is the can-do spirit?

200

Finish this sentence: Who wants to make aloo gobi, when you can.....

Bend it like Beckham

200

American tv-series about the zombie apocalypse

What is The Walking Dead

300

Literary term for one or more topics that a text discusses or addresses

What is theme

300

A rhetorical device that puts two opposite ideas against each other

What is antithesis

300

Afro-American woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man, which began the Civil Rights Movement

Who is Rosa Parks

300

Musician who is seen as a pioneer of reggae music and an icon of freedom.

Who is Bob Marley

300

The name of the film that was based in the horror text about the big fish.

What is JAWS

400

A hint at something that will happen later in the story

What is foreshadowing

400

A rhetorical device that presents a set of ideas like a staircase

What is tricolon

400

American cultural value based on the idea that America has plenty of everything

What is the psychology of abundance?

400

John Agard's birth place

What is British Guiana/Gyana?

400

The actress who plays the character Ripley in the Alien-films

Who is Sigourney Weaver

500

Literary critique based on how women are represented in a text

What is feminist critique/feminism?

500

American president who used the term, "Ich bin ein Berliner" in a speech.

Who is John F. Kennedy

500

The only American president to serve for more than two terms (he was in office from 1932 to 1945).

Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

500

British rock group named after a torture device

Who is Iron Maiden?

500

Horror thriller based on the seven deadly sins

What is Seven