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"This story starts with the day I found the fish."
What is Fish?
100
You shelve nonfiction books according to this system
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
100
She sells seashells down by the seashore is an example of this literary device
What is alliteration?
100
A Japanese poem of 17 syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
This Haitian author wrote Behind the Mountain.
Who is Edwidge Danticat?
200
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic.
What is the Giver?
200
This is when you take someone else's work or ideas and claim it as your own.
What is plagiarize?
200
A hint or sign in literature that something is going to happen. A warning or prediction.
What is foreshadowing?
200
This famous Poet wrote Hope is the Things with Feathers.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
This author wrote Long Walk to Water.
Who is Linda Sue Park?
300
Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green wilderness below.
What is Hatchet?
300
When a website or person might favor or have prejudice to certain beliefs and ideas over another.
What is bias?
300
The title of this children's book, My Dog is as smelly as Dirty Socks is an example of this literary device.
What is Simile?
300
This type of poem is written in a shape that helps express the meaning of the poem.
What is Concrete Poetry?
300
She wrote the dystopian novel, The Giver.
Who is Lois Lowry?
400
Poppy set down one of the Mermaid dolls close to the stretch of asphalt road that represented the Blackest Sea.
What is Doll Bones?
400
An alphabetical listing of names, places, subjects in the back of a book.
What is index?
400
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type illustrates this literary device.
What is personification?
400
This poet uses rhyme and rap to tell a story a story about basketball.
Who is Kwame Alexander?
400
The J. in this British author's first name stands for Joanne.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
500
"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy."
What is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
500
This 3 letter acronym is another name for a website address.
What is the URL?
500
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players." is a famous metaphor by this English author.
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
Shakespeare was famous for writing these poems that contain 14 lines.
What are Sonnets?
500
This author wrote the famous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Who is Roald Dahl?