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King of the Castle
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Kingshaw is locked in this location at the beginning of the book
What is the Red Room 
100
This Elizabethan poet and playwright is famous for works such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

Who is William Shakespeare

100

Giving human-like qualities to a non-human being

What is personification

100

The title character from this Shakespeare play asks himself "To be or not to be -- that is the question" in his famous soliloquy 

What is Hamlet

100

This is the name of the penny-pinching boss at the heart of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?


Who is Ebenezer Scrooge

200

This is the first name of Kingshaw's mother

Who is Helena

200
Known for his children's literature, this famous author wrote classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda
Who is Roald Dahl
200
A word that imitates, suggests, or resembles the sound it's describing
Onomatopoeia 
200

This 1995 coming-of-age comedy set in California is loosely based on Jane Austin's 1815 novel Emma?

What is Clueless

200
This set of four sisters are the iconic protagonists of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (double points for first names)

Who are the March Sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy)

300

This animal features in the Red Room 

What is moths

300

This famous 15th-century British author wrote "The Canterbury Tales"

Who is (Geoffrey) Chaucer 

300

Writing that invokes the reader's senses with descriptive word choice to create a more vivid and realistic recreation of the scene

What is imagery

300

This 1945 British novel depicting animalian life was often accompanied with the subtitle "A Contemporary Satire?"

What is Animal Farm

300

This famously violent barber character was first introduced in "The String of Pearls" Victorian serial in 1846? The character also featured in a Tony award-winning musical and a 2007 film rendition.

What is Sweeney Todd

400

This is the name of the iconic puppet show that features in Kingshaw's seaside dream

What is Punch and Judy
400
Hailing from southwest Dorset (Stinsford), this famous Romantic author is most known for his novels Tess of d'Ubervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd

Who is Thomas Hardy

400

A recurring element in a story that holds some symbolic or conceptual meaning. Example: Evil stepmothers in fairytales -- a symbol that reoccurs within the genre

What is motif

400

Often titled as the "original enemies to lovers," the two lead characters from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing are named this

Who are Beatrice and Benedick

400

The title character of what Charlotte Bronte novel asks Mr. Rochester, "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?"

Who is Jane Eyre

500
This is the name of the housekeeper and caretaker of Warings 
Who is Mrs Alice Boland
500
Best known for works such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, this trio of sisters were successful Romantic writers in the 19th century. 

Who are the Brontës 

500

This literary device is the resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).

What is assonance 

500

This was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1993 

Toni Morrison

500

According to Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg want to travel around the world for this many days 


What is Eighty (Around the World in Eighty days)