Book Trivia
Double Points
The color of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
What is green?
A long book or story typically fiction.
What is a novel?
The amount of evidence that a short response should have.
What is 2 piece of evidence.
One type of figurative language.
What is simile, metaphor, idiom, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and imagery.
The way Patrick is killed in Lambs to the Slaughter.
What is Mary kills Patrick with a frozen piece of lamb?
Triple Points
The amount of people who die in The Outsiders.
What is 3 people (Bob, Johnny, and Dally)?
The meaning of exposition.
What is a description of ideas or information?
The amount of paragraphs in an Essay.
What is 5 paragraphs?
His bike was black like ink.
The figurative language used in this.
The way the Highwayman died.
What is being shot by the soliders?
Triple Points
The name of the protagonist in My Side of the Mountain.
What is Sam?
The name of a section of a poem.
What is a stanza?
The maximum amount of points in that can be obtained in a short response.
What is 2 points?
The amount of figurative language strategies.
(Hint: That we have learned)
What is 8?
The name of the woman who was killed in The Lottery.
What is Tessie Hutchinson?
The thing that killed the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz.
What is the house falling on her?
The name of a short story which has a hidden meaning.
What is an allegory?
The way to answer a short response question.
What is RACE?
When one letter repeats itself.
What is alliteration?
The type of gun that George used to kill Lennie.
What is a Luger?
Triple Points
The amount of pages in Green Eggs and Ham.
What is 62 pages?
Three synonyms for theme.
1.5x points
The name of one category that New York uses to grade essays.
What is
Content and Analysis
Command of Evidence
Coherence, Organization and Style
Control of Conventions
The difference between a hyperbole and a metaphor.
What is a hyperbole always heavily emphasizes a point while a metaphor doesn’t?
The amount of named characters in Of Mice and Men.
(Hint: Only human characters count)
What is 9 characters? (Curley’s wife and The Boss aren’t names)