King of the Castle
Hooper describes this house as "an ordinary house, he thought, an ugly house, nothing to boast of"
This author wrote I'm the King of the Castle
Who is Susan Hill
This literary device involves repeating a word, phrase, or stanza to create a rhythmic effect
What is repetition
This literary device is a direct comparison
What is a metaphor
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
What is The Polar Express
This animal is a symbol for Kingshaw's fear and anxiety in the novel I'm the King of the Castle
What is a crow
This Scottish poet wrote "Valentine" and was the Poet Laureate 2009-2019
Who is Carol Ann Duffy
What is a simile
This literary device involves the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration
This poem begins with the lines "Not a red rose or a satin heart. / I give you an onion"
What is "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy
Kingshaw and Hooper run off into this place when their parents go to London
What is Hang Wood
This internationally-renowned British author coined the following secret phrase: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
J.K. Rowling
This literary device involves pairing two contradictory terms, such as "awfully good" and "deafening silence"
What is oxymoron
A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
What is irony
In her novel "Bridget Jones's Diary," author Helen Fielding named love interest Mark Darcy after a character from this classic Jane Austen novel?
What is Pride and Prejudice
This country is where Kingshaw's previous school was located
What is Wales
"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel, not nearly as well known as "A Christmas Carol," by what British author?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Example: Animal Farm
What is an allegory
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is allusion
Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in English verse, most famously by William Shakespeare. While "iambic" describes the unstressed/stressed pattern of each two-syllable "foot," the word "pentameter" indicates that there are this many feet within a given line
What is five
This old building is where Hooper falls and breaks his arm towards the end of the book
This Gothic author, who was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famously wrote the novel "Frankenstein" as part of a Ghost story-writing competition
Who is Mary Shelley
This poetic feature involves the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. Example: I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills”
What is enjambement
A break between words within a metrical foot.
What is caesura
When was the Nobel Prize in Literature first awarded?
1901