Young Adult Literature
Boy wizard who hangs out with friends, Ron and Hermione
Who is Harry Potter?
Compares two similar things by saying that one of them is the other.
What is metaphor?
Describes a person, place, or thing
Noun
"Yer a wizard Harry."
What is Harry Potter?
Features a theme park of cloned dinosaurs located on an island off the Costa Rican coast.
What is Jurassic Park?
The games that Katniss Everdeen competes in.
What are the hunger games?
Uses human traits to describe non-human things.
What is personification?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb?
“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”
What is The Outsiders?
The story of Bilbo Baggins, who lives a simple life with his fellow hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf arrives and convinces him to join a group of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor.
What is The Hobbit?
This is what happens to the skin of vampires who step out into the sunlight in the book, Twilight.
Words that sound like the thing they’re referring to. Examples include: whiz, buzz, snap,
What is onomatopoeia?
A word that modifies a noun
What is an adjective?
“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
a man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town
What is Jaws?
He wrote The Fault in Our Stars.
Who is John Green?
Two contradictory words that describe one thing. Example: Jumbo Shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
A word that modifies a verb?
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
What is Animal Farm?
A story about a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions.
What is Forrest Gump?
This book is set in a world where people don't see color.
What is The Giver?
Creates a contrast between how things seem and how they really are.
There are 3 types: dramatic, verbal, and situational
What is irony?
A noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb.
What is the direct object?
“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
What is The Great Gatsby?
The story of an unlucky teenage boy who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.
What is Holes?