Shakespeare
A Scottish lord commits murder, and then slowly starts to go insane.
What is Macbeth?
Farm animals kick out their human owner because they believe they should be treated as equals. However, they soon come to the idea that some animals are more equal than others.
What is Animal Farm?
This author pioneered the science fiction genre, and wrote her most famous story as a response to a ghost story writing challenge propose by Lord Byron.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This part of speech renames, explains, or clarifies another noun.
What is an appositive?
This short story utilizes thematic irony as it follows a wife who kills her husband with a leg of lamb after finding out he is leaving her.
What is "A Lamb To The Slaughter?"
This play serves as the inspiration for the hit 90s rom-com, 10 Things I Hate About You.
What is Taming Of The Shrew?
A rich man throws extravagant parties over and over, hoping that one woman will show up. He's also very fascinated by a green light, whose symbolism is highly debated in ELA classrooms.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This Harlem Renaissance poet asked what happens to a dream deferred.
Who is Langston Hughes?
These punctuation marks functions in the same way as commas on the ACT.
What are dashes?
A woman is forced to rest and recuperate in a room with a horrendous wallpaper, but she becomes convinced there is someone is trapped inside the pattern.
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
A Danish prince sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, and then actually goes crazy with revenge.
What is Hamlet?
This novel features two rival groups of teenagers and a devastating ending, featuring the iconic quote, "Stay gold, Ponyboy."
What is The Outsiders?
This author, praised as the greatest humorist of American literature, used satire to critique racial injustice and societal rules.
Who is Mark Twain?
This grammar rule determines which verb form should be used according to the quantity of the subject.
What is subject-verb agreement?
In this short story, there is a joyful and peaceful city with no need for kings, but the prosperity of the city depends on a single condition: one child must live in perpetual misery, locked away under a public building.
What is "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas?"
A guy named Iago manipulates literally everyone and then nearly everyone dies. Also, the idea of the 'green eyed monster' comes from this play!
What is Othello?
This classic novel explores hypocrisy, guilt, and judgement through the plight of a Puritan woman being publicly shamed for adultery.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
This author, considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, utilized a very experimental and innovative writing structure, shown in his novel As I Lay Dying, which uses 15 different narrators split across 59 disjointed chapters.
Who is William Faulkner?
This term describes when the audience knows what is happening behind the scenes and the protagonist is still completely unaware.
What is dramatic irony?
A dysfunctional family on a road trip from Georgia to Florida ends in a fatal encounter with an escaped convict.
What is "A Good Man Is Hard To Find?"