Animal Farm
This large, dedicated cart-horse's personal motto was "I will work harder."
This poetic device compares two different things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute in this dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins.
The Hunger Games
In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, this teenager from Brooklyn takes up the mantle of Spider-Man after gaining superpowers from a radioactive spider bite.
Who is Miles Morales?
In Minecraft, players enter this dangerous, netherrack-filled underworld dimension through an obsidian frame set on fire.
What is The Nether?
Old Major teaches the animals this song, which becomes the anthem of the rebellion.
What is "Beasts of England"?
"Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers"
What is alliteration?
Bilbo Baggins goes on a quest with thirteen dwarves to reclaim a stolen treasure from the dragon Smaug.
The Hobbit
Directed by Steven Spielberg, this 1993 blockbuster features a theme park filled with cloned dinosaurs brought back to life using ancient DNA.
What is Jurassic Park?
This famed Italian explorer famously set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 aboard three ships named the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This persuasive pig acts as Napoleon's spokesperson and propaganda minister.
Who is Squealer?
Words like "buzz", "hiss", "pop" and "sizzle" that imitate the natural sound associated with the object or action they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
The first book of the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles by Rick Riordan, which focuses on the son of Posideon.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
In Disney's Inside Out, this blue, pessimistic emotion works alongside Joy, Disgust, Fear, and Anger to help 11-year-old Riley navigate her life.
Who is Sadness?
In Norse mythology, this legendary hammer wielded by Thor was forged by dwarves and returns to his hand whenever thrown.
What is Mjölnir?
During the Battle of the Cowshed, Snowball studies tactics from a book about this ancient Roman general
Who is Julius Caesar?
Occuring frequently in Shakespeare's sonnets, this poetic term refers to a line of verse that carries over into the next line without any punctuation.
What is enjambment?
Subtitled The Modern Prometheus, this Mary Shelley novel tells the story of an ambitious scientist who creates life from resurrected body parts
Frankenstein
In The Matrix, Neo is offered a choice by Morpheus between taking two different colored pills—selecting this color pill will reveal the truth about the universe.
What is the red pill?
Named after the French chemist who invented it, this process heats liquids like milk or juice to kill off harmful bacteria without changing the flavor.
What is pasteurization?
By the end of the novel, all Seven Commandments of Animalism are erased and replaced with this single, famous sentence.
What is "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"?
The repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words, as in "the rain is Spain falls mainly in the plain".
What is assonance?
Falsely accused of stealing sneakers, Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, where boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes every day in Louis Sachar's novel
Holes
In the Star Wars franchise, this legendary Jedi Master, known for his green appearance and inverted speech patterns, originally trained Luke Skywalker on the swamp planet Dagobah
Who is Yoda?
In tennis, scoring four points wins a game—unless the score reaches a 40–40 tie, which is called by this four-letter French-derived term.
What is Deuce?