WWII Lit
Poetry
Scary ELA
All Things October
Random
100
Her and her family hid in a secret annex, and this is her writing about the experience.
What is The Diary of Anne Frank, or The Diary of a Young Girl?
100
_____ is the thing with feathers
That perches om the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
What is hope?
100
Carrie walked the green mile in the tall grass, and she saw the shining firestarter when it was held by this author.
Who is Stephen King?
100
This is the holiday celebrated on the evening before the Christian holy day of All Hallows’ Day or All Saints Day.
What is All Hallows’ Eve? -October 31st
100
This is a genre of literature that novels like The Hunger Games and The Giver fall under where the world is anything but paradise.
What is dystopia?
200
Horizontal, nocturnal overlay on an XY
What is The Boy In The Striped Pajamas?
200
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the _____, still unbroke;
And the _____, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
What is Arrow and Song?
200
The poet who wrote:
"Surely," said I. "surely that is something at my window lattice:
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore —
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
‘Tis the wind and nothing more!”
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
200
According to the Roman calendar, October was originally this number month of the year.
What is eighth? The 8th month of the year.
200
The pumpkin king wants to change everything, and all the characters love to sing!
What is Nightmare Before Christmas?
300
You read about a large place of worship that his Jews.
What is the Grand Mosque of Paris?
300
She was taken by the wind that blew - chilling and killing, and he mourned her death in the kingdom by the sea.
Who is Annabel Lee?
300
Two of your teachers love the author who wrote this novel where a night creeper, life eater agrees to conference with a mortal scribe.
What is Interview With A Vampire?
300
This is a gourd herb cream brew.
What is a pumpkin spice latte?
300
This is what the acronym P.S. stands for.
What is postscript - an addition to a letter after you have ended it.
400
What is Propaganda?
400
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
400
The synonym for scary, that is backbone-brisk.
What is spine-chilling?
400
This word means - a time of full maturity.
What is autumn?
400
As a child, your teacher received this classic from a source not so sincere.
Who is Barbie?
500
A symbol, turned target, turned literature.
What is Yellow Star
500
A vision that sleep brings inside that vision - both to see and perhaps maybe
What is A Dream Within A Dream?
500
A real word(s) that rhymes with
What is sporange? This is a sac that spores come from.
What is a door hinge?
500
He was a Viking who sailed the ocean blue and was said to land in North America long before Columbus ever had a clue. By long boat he came this way, and October 9th is his day.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
500
Written by E. Bronte, this novel follows the story of love lost, diabolical deeds, and haunting memories. It is also Ms. Rees's favorite book.
What is Wuthering Heights?
600
The once doctor, made waiter from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Who is Pavel?
600
Fill in the last word of every other line in this poem by Isaac McLellan:
It is said that the Spirits of buried men
Oft come to this wicked world again;
That the churchyard turf is often trod
By the unlaid tenants of tomb and ___(3).
That the midnight sea itself is swept
By those who have long beneath it _____(5).
And they say of this old, mossy wood
Whose hoary trunks have for ages____ (5)
That every knoll and dim-lit glade
Is haunted at night by its restless _____(5).
sod, slept, stood, Shade
600
WI wrote this 1800's short story which follows the plight of a small town as it is haunted by a villian on steed without a cranium.
What is Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
600
The day after the last day of October.
What is Dia de los Muertos, All Souls Day or the Day of the Dead.
600
This movie was a bad slumber on a tree, and one in which Freddy you'd see.
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?