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Repeating vowel sounds in words that are close together.

Assonance

100

These star-crossed lovers from Verona are celebrating their 623rd anniversary of death

Romeo and Juliet

100

A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses connected with either a semicolon or a comma that is followed by a coordinating conjunction

What is Compound Sentence

100

What country was the author of the books Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich from?

Russia

100

Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel

1984

200

The act of placing two or more things side by side to compare or contrast them, or to create an interesting effect

Juxtaposition

200

How many sisters are in the Bennet family of Jane Austen's most popular book?

Five: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia

200

A sentence that contains one or more dependent clauses, also known as subordinate clauses, in addition to an independent clause.

What is a complex sentence
200

This Victorian London author wrote over 20 books in his lifetime and coined the phrase "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"

Charles Dickens

200

Anthem by Ayn Rand and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin are considered to be this type of novel.

What is Dystopian

300

Figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.

Hypophora

300

Which Shakespeare play opens amid thunder and lightning and a meeting of three witches?

What is Macbeth

300

What part of speech is the word "That"

Adjective

300

The classic American novel, "Of Mice and Men" was written by which author?

John Steinbeck

300

This author sets his novels in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha

William Faulkner

400

This rhetorical device involves repeating words or phrases at the beginning of multiple sentences, clauses, or poetic lines

Anaphora

400

This magnum opus took this Russian author six years to complete. Containing over 600 characters and spanning approximately 15 years, few bibliophiles can boast reading its 1,444 pages.

War and Peace

400

known as one of the most debated topics in grammar, this punctuation mark earned its degree from the most prestigious university in the world.

Oxford Comma

400

This 19th-century American author, known for his horror fiction, was likely named after a Shakespearean character from King Lear

Edgar Allen Poe

400

Ophelia; Hamlet

500

This rhetorical device repeats conjunctions to emphasize meaning

Polysyndeton 

500

This spunky Southern Belle had three husbands throughout the Civil War: Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy, and Rhett Butler

Scarlett O'Hara

500

A sentence that gives instructions or commands

What is an Imperative sentence

500

What is William Shakespeare's son's name (similar to his play c. 1599 play Hamlet).

Hamnet

500

What is the name of Ms. Lang's published children's book?

Chip the Chicken