Famous Books & Authors
Shakespeare
Grammar
Proverbs & Collective Nouns
Figures of Speech
100

This book series features the characters Frodo and Gandalf.

What is The Lord of the Rings?

100

This play tells the story of a Scottish king and witches.

What is Macbeth?


100

This is the subject in the sentence, "The dog chased the ball."

What is "The dog"?

100

The collective noun for a group of lions.

What is a pride?

100

An extreme exaggeration for effect.

What is hyperbole?

200

This author penned Pride and Prejudice.

Who is Jane Austen?

200

This fairy appears in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Who is Puck?

200

This grammatical term describes the most basic form of the verb.

What is the infinitive?

200

Complete the proverb: "______ speak louder than _____."

What is "Actions speak louder than words."

200

The figure of speech in this sentence: "The leaves danced in the wind."

What is personification?

300

This is the title of the first Chronicles of Narnia book by publication order.

What is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?

300

This tragedy features jealousy and deceit, with Iago as a central figure.

What is Othello?

300

An apostrophe is used to show two things.

What is possession and contraction?

300

The collective noun for a group of geese on the ground.

What is a gaggle?

300

The term for a contradiction in terms, like "jumbo shrimp"

What is an oxymoron?

400

This author wrote the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Who is Philip Pullman?

400

This play is set on an enchanted island.

What is The Tempest?

400

This type of sentence gives a command.

What is the imperative?

400

Complete the proverb: "You can lead a ______ to ______, but you can’t make it _____."

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink."

400

The figure of speech in, "Her smile is the sun."

What is a metaphor?

500

This author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Who is John Steinbeck?

500

"All the world’s a stage," is a line that appears in this play.

What is As You Like It?

500

This verb type requires a direct object.

What is a transitive verb?

500

The collective noun for a group of crows.

What is a murder?

500

The term for a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object, as in "Oh, Death, where is your sting?"

What is apostrophe?