Renaissance
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Harry Potter
Literary Terms
Words that begin with A
100

The literal meaning of the term, “Renaissance”. 

What is rebirth? 

100

The theory that the universe began with a blast, as one small point and then expanded. 

What is the Big Bang Theory? 

100

The name of the three headed dog in The Sorcerer’s Stone.  

What is Fluffy? 

100

The main villain or problem causer in a story.

What is an an antagonist? 

100

A describing word. 

What is an adjective? 

200

The person came up with the Heliocentic Thory. 

Who is Nicolas Copernicus? 

200

The border of a Black Hole. 

What is an Event Horizon? 

200

A curse that allows the one who cast it to control another person. 

What is the Imperius curse? 

200

The problem in a book. 

What is a conflict? 

200

A word that modifies a verb or an adjective

What is an adverb? 

300

The inventor of the printing press.

Who was Johannes Gutenberg? 

300

The center of a Black Hole

What is a singularity? 

300

The person who poses as Mad-Eye Moody, Harry's 4th year Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Who is Barty Crouch, Jr.? 

300

The beginning of the book that gives the main idea. 

What is the exposition? 

300

The name of the group that included Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII. 

What are the Axis Powers? 

400

The year the printing press was invented. 

What was 1450? 

400

How many minutes it takes for the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit the earth. 

What is 95 minutes? 

400

A person that is trained to catch Dark wizards.

What is an Auror? 

400

Point of view if the author uses the word “I”

***Daily Double****

What is first person narration? 

400

The word that means to hold back from something. 

What is to abstain? 

500

The artist who painted the Sistine Chapel. 

Who was Michelangelo? 

500

The first person to have the Big Bang theory. 

Who was Georges Lemaitre? 

500

The way Harry catches his first snitch. 

What is in his mouth?

500

Point of view when the narrator tells us what is happening in the story. 

What is third person narration? 

500

The month that Chernobyl exploded. 

What is April?