English Language and Literature

Shakespeare

100

This Shakespearean play features the star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona.

Romeo and Juliet

200

The ambitious Scottish general who becomes king after hearing a prophecy.

Macbeth

300

This comedic play includes fairies, a love potion, and a character named Bottom.

Midsummer Night's Dream

400

Shakespeare’s only play set in ancient Egypt.

Antony and Cleopatra

500

This tragic hero’s fatal flaw is indecision, expressed in the “To be or not to be” soliloquy.

Hamlet

Language techniques

100

A comparison using “like” or “as.”  

Simile

200

The central message or underlying idea of a work.

Theme

300

A character who contrasts with the protagonist.

Foil

400

When the audience knows something the characters do not.

Dramatic irony

500

Also known as the rule of threes it is agreed in rhetoric that three is a satisfying number to humans – it feels complete.  

Tricolon 

Modern Literature

100

The wizarding world of Hogwarts was created by this British author.

J.K. Rowling

200

This book by Jeff Kinney is written like a kid’s diary.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

300

In this dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins, Katniss competes in deadly games.

The Hunger games

400

In this book, a young girl named Coraline finds a strange door that leads to another world.

Coraline

500

This book is about a boy named Percy who discovers he is a half-blood and goes on a quest with Greek gods.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Famous Characters

100

This girl falls down a rabbit hole into a strange world.

Alice in Wonderland

200

This boy never grows up and lives in Neverland.

Peter Pan

300

This man steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

Robin Hood 

400

This detective uses clues and logic to solve mysteries with his friend Watson

Sherlock Holmes

500

This monster is created in a lab and comes to life in a famous novel by Mary Shelley.

Frankenstein's monster 

Punctuation

100

This mark ends a sentence that tells something.

Full stop

200

This mark is used at the end of a question.

Question mark 

300

This mark shows excitement or strong feeling.

Exclamation mark

400

Always capitalize this when you start it at the beginning of a sentence.

First letter

500

This mark is used to show possession or in contractions, like in don’t or Sarah’s.

Apostrophe