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English author known primarily for her six major novels set among the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Considered defining works of the Regency Era and counted among the best-loved classics of English literature
What is Jane Austen
100
fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Depicted as a married woman with a daughter who is reunited with her former lover Jay Gatsby
What is Daisy Buchanan
100
complex "cognitive process" of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning
What is reading
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The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage and money in the British Regency.
What is Pride and Prejudice
100
genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers
What is horror
200
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. What is his pen name?
What is Mark Twain
200
a fictional character and the main protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind
What is Scarlett O'Hara
200
analogy Comparing two sets of words to show some common similarity between the sets. When done as a vocabulary exercise this requires producing one of the words (e.g., cat is to kitten: as dog is to _____?).
What is analogy
200
The novels chronicle the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
What is Harry Potter
200
prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is non-fiction
300
a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
What is Frankenstein
300
Words that are related to each other by virtue of being derived from a common origin
What is cognate
300
The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, who lives with her older brother, Jeremy, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird
300
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
What is poetry
400
an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Wrote "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man and the Sea"
What is Ernest Hemingway
400
Polonius's daughter in the Shakespeare play Hamlet
What is Ophelia
400
The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning
What is etymology
400
about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England.
What is Heart of Darkness
400
literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction
500
was an American author who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception". Many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
What is John Steinbeck
500
an orphan and the protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations.
What is Pip
500
The repetition of the initial phoneme of each word in connected text (e.g., Harry the happy hippo hula-hoops with Henrietta).
What is alliteration
500
narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her poor, rural family's quest and motivations—noble or selfish—to honor her wish to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi.
What is As I Lay Dying
500
a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life. Under the category of fiction
What is romance