Figurative Language
Love & Death with Poe
Halloween
Writing
Misc
100

What type of figurative language is used when we say “The world is a stage”?

Answer: What is a metaphor?

100

What is Poe's first and middle name?

What is Edgar Allen Poe?

100

What is the most popular Halloween candy?

What is candy corn or Reeses?

100

Tone What does the literary term “tone” refer to in writing?

Answer: What is the author’s attitude or emotional expression towards the subject matter?

100

What Shakespeare play is Lion King based off of?

What is Hamlet?

200

Write out a simile:

Answer: Answers will vary

200

What is the central theme of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee”?

Answer: What is the theme of love and loss?

200

This 1990s movie is about three witches who wreak havoc on some teenagers and has a sequel on Disney Plus. (The Title rhymes)

What is Hocus Pocus.

200

 Write down what is “writer’s block” in the context of writing, and how do you overcome it?

Answer: What is a creative slowdown or inability to produce new written work?

200

What does Shakespeare compare his love to?

Answer: A summer's day

300

Write out an example of Alliteration in a sentence.

Answer: Will vary

300

What figurative language is used in this passage:

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

Answer: What is alliteration?

300
What does Halloween mean?

What is all hallow's eve?

300

Write out what a theme is.

Answer: The main message of a story

300

What is a conspiracy theory of Poe's death? Write it out

Various answers

400

Which word represents an onomatopoeia for the sound a cat makes?

Answer: What is “meow”?

400

What figurative language is used here in lines 1 & 2?

And neither the angels in Heaven above

   Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

What is allusion.

400

If were means man, what is the translation of werewolf?

What is wolfman or manwolf?

400

How many lines are in a sonnet?

What is 14 lines?

400

Who is the director of the 1989 Batman movie, who was utilized Gothic themes and imagery in his work?

Who is Tim Burton?

500

If someone says, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse,” what figurative language are they using?

Answer: What is hyperbole?

500

What was the subgenre Edgar Allen Poe wrote within?

Answer: What is Gothic Romanticism?

500

What is the most expensive Halloween costume?


What is a diamond encrusted batman suit.

500

What kind of rhyme pattern is this?

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat 'til the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

ABCD, ABABAA, EFEF

What is ABABAA?

500

What is Harvey Dent's villain name in Batman?

Who is TwoFace?