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Who Wrote It?
Literary Devices
Common Mix Ups
Characters
Potpourri
100
"To be or not to be, that is the question" was written by this famous writer.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
When a non-human entity is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
The word that correctly completes the following sentence: (Must spell) "This is (are/our) house."
What is our?
100
Another name for the main character in a story.
What is a protagonist?
100
What hit song by Carly Rae Jepsen became widely regarded as the song of the summer in 2012?
What is "Call Me Maybe?"
200
The author that penned the phrase "May the odds be ever in your favor."
Who is Suzanne Collins?
200
When a writer strings a group of words together that all start with the same consonant sound, as in the following phrase: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
200
The word that correctly completes the following sentence: (Must spell) "(Their/They're/There) mother is actually a famous director."
What is their?
200
Another name for the villain of a story.
What is an antagonist?
200
What 1994 Disney movie is actually based on the Shakespeare play "Hamlet?"
What is "The Lion King?"
300
The author that wrote: "External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty."
Who is Charles Dickens?
300
Using heavy descriptive phrases to create a strong mental picture.
What is imagery?
300
The word that correctly completes the following sentence: (Must spell) "You like football? I like football, (to/too,two)."
What is too?
300
A character that doesn't change much over the course of a story.
What is a flat character/static character?
300
This is approximately how many megabytes are in a gigabyte.
What is 1000? (1024)
400
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
400
When what occurs is the opposite of what is expected to occur.
What is irony?
400
The word that correctly completes the following sentence: (Must spell) "(Your/You're) going to school today, right?"
What is you're?
400
A character that changes significantly over the course of a story. A three-dimensional, fully fleshed-out character.
What is a round character/dynamic character?
400
This TV show was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
What is South Park?
500
She opened her most popular novel with the following lines: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Who is Jane Austen?
500
When an author places contradictory words close together. Examples: "cold fire," "deafening silence"
What is oxymoron?
500
The word that correctly completes the following sentence: (Must spell) "Where did the dog get (its/it's) bone?"
What is its?
500
A character created by the author whose primary purpose is to create a contrast to another character by laying emphasis or drawing attention to the latter’s traits and characteristics through the former’s obviously contradictory ones.
What is a foil?
500
What hit TV show of the 90's uses only the last name of its star as its title?
What is Seinfeld?