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100

Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?

Oscar Wilde

100

“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” This line opens which novel?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

100

Applying human qualities to non-human things
 

Personification

100

Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and __________?

King Lear

100

What are the names of the three famous Brontë sisters?

Anne, Charlotte, and Emily

200

Who wrote Frankenstein?

Mary Shelley

200

On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared

A Study in Scarlet

200

A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

Metaphor

200

A poem written by Lord Byron. Tells the story of a very promiscuous man whose pride comes back to bite him

Don Juan

200

Which two cities are the settings for Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities?

Paris and London

300

Which author wrote Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park?

Jane Austen

300

The first novel of Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers

300

The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

Simile

300

What epic poem is considered the most famous work in Old English, despite the poem taking place in Scandinavia instead of England?

Beowulf

300

What pen name did Mary Anne Evans write her novels under? 

George Eliot

400

The author of many works including L'Allegro, Lycidas and Paradise Lost, who is considered to have been the last great poet of the English Renaissance?

John Milton

400

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

400

What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

Onomatopoeia

400

John Keats wrote what poem to a singing bird?

Ode to A Nightingale

400

Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature?

The Elizabethen age

500

Author of The Faerie Queene
 

Edmund Spenser

500

Emily Brontë’s novel tells of a tragic romance between two lovers — Catherine and Heathcliff.

Wuthering Heights

500

Writing that invokes the reader’s senses with descriptive word choice to create a more vivid and realistic recreation of the scene in their mind.

Imagery 

500

The first tragedy written in English

Gorboduc

500

Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

Geoffrey Chaucer