Novels
Vocabulary
Non-Fiction
Grammar
Random
100

A fiction story about two Irish children living new lives as housekeepers in England, and a mysterious creature appears.

What is the Night Gardener

100

A comparison using like or as

What is a simile

100

A place where you can find the sections in a non-fiction book

What is the Table of Contents

100

A sentence that has more than one subject and verb without proper punctuation between.

A run-on sentence

100

The term in "The Giver" when they used euthanasia to execute someone.

What is "a release"

200

A story about some teenagers called "Greasers" in the south side of a big city.

What is The Outsiders

200

An extreme exaggeration in a story that isn't meant to be taken literally

What is a Hyperbole

200

A simplified drawing of something that may pop up in non-fiction books, that shows how something works and how it is made.

What is a Diagram

200

Two things a sentence needs in order to be complete

A subject and a verb

200

Author of "The Contender"

Robert Lipsyte

300

What book features Dallas Winston?

What is The Outsiders

300

An expression that holds a different meaning than its literal meaning

What is an Idiom

300
The label of a new chapter/section in a non-fiction book

What is a heading

300
Examples are "and, but, or, then, if"
Conjunctions
300

The character who said "Stay gold, Ponyboy"

Who is Johnny Cade

400

A story about a boy in a dystopian city who realizes how bad of a place he's really in.

What is The Giver

400

A word in a story that is associated with a sound, an example would be "CUCKOO!"

What is Onomatopoeia

400

Providing information in the order of which events occured.

What is a chronological order

400

Use these words to make your writing more descriptive.

Adjective

400

The name of the storyteller Molly and Kip come across in Chapter 1 of "The Night Gardener"

Who is Hester Kettle

500

A story about a boxer living in Harlem, New York and how he grows.

What is The Contender

500

A comparison in a short story or poetry that extends for multiple lines

What is an Extended Metaphor

500

A type of lettering that is used in non-fiction to make a certain text stand out over the surrounding sentence

What is Italic

500

Use this punctuation mark to indicate a pause between two separate ideas.

What is a Semicolon
500

Location of the church in "The Outsiders"

What is Windrixville, Oklahoma