Class Novels
Literary Devices
Name that Author
Short Stories
Poetic Elements
100

In this piece of literature, a woman learns to love and advocate through herself after enduring suffering at the hands of men and society.

What is The Color Purple?

100

Occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't.

What is dramatic irony?

100

Hamlet

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

This story features a woman who seek a place to write but discovers that writing at home is less stressful.

What is "The Office"?

100

Poems are references by these numbers.

What are lines?

200

In this story, the main character searches for true, passionate love

What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?

200

Something happening very differently to what was expected.

What is situational irony?

200

Invisible Man

Who is Ralph Ellison?

200

In this story, the main female protagonist has a psychotic break.

What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

200

Instead of paragraphs, poems have these.

What are stanzas?

300

This read is a great example of Dystopian Fiction.

What is 1984?

300

A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

What is a paradox?

300

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Who is Zora Neale Hurston?

300

In this read, the protagonist struggles to accept the changes of his life.

What is "The Swimmer"?

300

This is the general word for the formal style of a poem. 

What is form?

400

This read is an example of Satire

What is Animal Farm?

400

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

What is an allegory?

400

The Color Purple

Who is Alice Walker?

400

Two of the themes of this short story is that death is inevitable, and having wealth produces an illusion of control and power.

What is "The Mask of the Red Death"?

400

William Shakespeare was very famous for writing these which features a "turn" at the end.

What is a sonnet?

500

This story is a great example of Gothic Literature

What is Frankenstein?

500

A recuring element with symbolic meaning

What is a motif?

500

Frankenstein

Who is Mary Shelley?

500

This protagonist of this story experiences victory but at a great cost.

What is "The Sniper"?

500

The meter of a Shakespearean sonnet.

What is iambic pentameter?