Vocabulary
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What is touching?
This author is famous for Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
This part of the book lists the chapter titles and the page each chapter starts on.
What is the Table of Contents?
A seminal work of science explaining the theory of evolution by natural selection.
"On the Origin of Species", by Charles Darwin.
This person invented the printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
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What is formulaic?
An English-Irish writer and satirist who wrote "Gulliver's Travels".
Who was Jonathan Swift?
This is a list of all the sources for the material used in the book
What is the Bibliography?
The title of the trilogy where you could read the quotation: "Not all those who wander are lost".
The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien.
This is the job of a person who used to handwrite every book before the printing press
What is a scribe?
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What is riveting?
This author is known for writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Leon Tolstoi
A removable paper cover, usually illustrated, for protecting the book and usually giving information about the book and the author.
What is the dust jacket (book jacket)?
A multi-generational saga that focuses on the BuendÃa family, who founded the fictional town of Macondo.
What is "One Hundred Years of Solitude", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne wears this letter on her dress
What is the letter A?
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What is cliché?
She is best known for writing To Kill a Mockingbird
Lateral part of a book usually indicating the title and author.
What is the spine?
A novel where the concept of Big Brother first appeared.
What is 1984 by George Orwell?
This is the most popular non-English book worldwide, where the main characters are a little boy and a pilot.
What is Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery?
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What is insipid?
This person wrote many letters and books while in prison for 27 years
The inside margin of the pages of a book; the inner margins of facing pages when book is open.
What is the gutter?
A monastery, mysterious deaths, a labyrinthine library and cryptic manuscripts.
"The Name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco.
The creator of Sherlock Holmes, who was also a close friend of illusionist Harry Houdini.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.