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This type of word describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
The punctuation mark placed at the end of a sentence that makes a statement.
What is a full stop?
This first name of the famous playwright.
Who is William?
This type of writing tries to convince the reader to agree with the writer.
What is persuasive writing?
This is a word formed from the first letters of other words, like NASA.
What is an acronym?
This children’s picture book by Mem Fox is about a small marsupial made invisible by their grandmother.
What is 'Possum Magic'?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession.
What is an apostrophe?
The punctuation mark that shows strong feeling, excitement, or shouting.
What is an exclamation mark?
In Shakespeare’s era, these performers took on all female roles in plays.
Who are boys or young men?
This literary genre describes the novel 'Coraline', mixing scary elements with fantasy.
What is gothic horror?
A literary device where two or more words begin with the same sound, like in Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven' - "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before", and Oodgeroo Noonuccal's poem 'Mother' - "My mother's memory moves me".
What is alliteration?
The narrator of the John Marsden novel 'Tomorrow, When the War Began'?
Who is Ellie?
A short story that teaches a moral lesson, often with animals as characters, such as 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'.
What is a fable?
A verb meaning to take or receive something, often confused with a similar-sounding word that means to exclude.
What is accept?
This is the name of Shakespeare’s most famous play about two young lovers from Verona.
What is 'Romeo and Juliet'?
'The Sapphires' travel to this country to perform for soldiers.
What is Vietnam?
This is the most common letter in the English language.
What is E?
A popular Australian TV show that was adapted from a series of books by Paul Jennings, known for its quirky and often spooky stories.
What is 'Round the Twist'?
The unusual collective noun for a group of crows.
What is a murder?
This punctuation is used to join two words together, like in 'sister-in-law.'
What is a hyphen?
This type of play, like 'Macbeth', usually ends sadly with lots of death.
What is a tragedy?
This author wrote the novel '1984'.
Who is George Orwell?
This ‘unrhymable’ word can be a noun, adjective, and is also a fruit; it has challenged poets for centuries and is often joked about as impossible to rhyme.
What is orange?
This Australian artist and author, known for their unique artwork and storytelling, has both written and illustrated imaginative texts such as 'The Arrival', 'Memorial', 'The Lost Thing', 'The Rabbits', and 'Tales from Outer Suburbia'.
Who is 'Shaun Tan'?
This letter begins the fewest words in the English language.
What is X?
A person in charge of an organisation or group, often confused with a similar-sounding word that refers to a fundamental truth or rule.
What is principal?
This building in London, shaped like a circle, is the theatre where Shakespeare’s plays were performed.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This genre focuses on specific experiences, events, or periods in a person’s life, emphasising personal reflections and emotions rather than a complete life story, like Anh Do's 'The Happiest Refugee', Alice Pung's 'Unpolished Gem' and Alistair MacLeod's 'Island'.
What is a memoir?
This figure of speech uses words that imitate the sounds they describe - like the hiss of a snake or the clang of a bell - and is often used in poetry and storytelling to create vivid sensory imagery.
What is onomatopoeia?
Which Australian poet with the nickname 'Banjo' is on the $10.00 note?
Who is A.B. Paterson?