Poetry
The Folger Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., is home to a large collection of printed works from this Bard of English poetry and plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Authors choice of words.
What is diction?
This Shania Twain song opens with the iconic spoken word lyric “Let’s go girls.”
What is 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman!'?
This author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" also worked for the Oxford Dictionary.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
The Queen of Hearts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland famously shouts this.
What is "Off with their heads!"?
In poetry, formal verse has a meter and rhyme scheme. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme scheme. This type of verse does not use meter or rhyme scheme. Take a guess if you don’t know; it won’t cost you anything if you’re wrong.
A comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
“Take a sad song and make it better” is a lyric from this song by The Beatles.
What is 'Hey Jude'?
This author created the character of Sherlock Holmes and was a good friend of the magician and illusionist Harry Houdini.
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
Elizabeth Bennett marries this man in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy?
Although her life tragically ended at the age of 30, this American poet and short-story writer is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for her collected poems.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
Descriptive language used to create a picture in the reader's head.
What is imagery?
When her partner gets home, this is all Aretha Franklin is asking for.
What is respect?
She was the author of the classic novel Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?
Mr. Hopson's cat's name is this.
What is Velma?
In 2019, musician and writer Joy Harjo was the first Native American to be bestowed with this honorific U.S. title that’s associated with the Library of Congress.
What is the U.S. Poet Laureate?
A reference to a biblical, mythological, literary or historical figure or citation.
What is allusion?
‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)’ by ABBA opens with a lyric stating it is this time.
When is half-past twelve?
The author of "Dune" was rejected 23 times before his book was published.
Who is Frank Herbert?
Agatha Christie wrote this many mystery novels before she died. (closest guess wins)
What is 75?
Featuring a military rank in its repetitive title, this 1865 Walt Whitman poem was written as a memorial to the recently assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
What is 'O Captain! My Captain!'?
a repeated vowel sound in 2 or more successive words in the middle of the words. Ex: He was rude with an attitude.
What is assonance?
This person “walks warily down the street” in the opening verse of Queen’s ‘Another One Bites the Dust.’
Who is Steve?
This author, known for "Middlemarch," was actually a woman who used a male pen name to be taken more seriously as a writer.
Who is George Eliot?
This is the primary crime that reoccurs throughout The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
What is murder?