Famous Modern Novels
JK Rowling's wizard/witch series
Harry Potter (or fantastic beasts)
Killed King Duncan
Macbeth
Define Theme
A central, unifying idea. It’s the bigger issue that emerges as the characters pursue their goals. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's Ambition led to their demise
Define simile
Comparing two things using like or as
Define Free Verse Poetry
Poetry that doesn't have strict meters or rhyme schemes
Stephanie Myer's monster romance series
Twilight
Romeo's Best Friend
Mercutio
Define Imagery
Vivid language designed to appeal to the senses. Words that create pictures in our mind
Define metaphor
Define Stanza
A group of lines with a similar thought or topic
Suzanne Collin's dystopian game show series
Hunger Games
Tom Sawyer's Best Friend (who has his own book)
Huckleberry Finn
Define Exposition
Refers to the first stage of a plot, in which necessary background information is provided.
Define personification
Giving an object or non-human thing human like qualities (the wind yelled)
Define Rhyme Scheme
Ordered pattern of rhymes that end a poem or verse (ABCB ABAB etc)
Name the current popular author who wrote: "It Ends with Us", "November 9", and "Ugly Love"
Colleen Hoover
Narrator of The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Define Allegory
a narrative technique in which characters represent things or abstract concepts to convey a message or to teach a lesson.
Define hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration (so hungry I can eat a horse)
Define Haiku
Japanese Poem with 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
Name the modern day author who created "Coraline", "Good Omens" and "The Sandman"
Neil Gaiman
Protagonist of Great Expectations
Pip
Name the Rhyme Scheme made famous by Shakespeare
Iambic pentameter (abab cdcd efef gh)
Define Allusion
References to people, places, events or things that are widely-known. "She's the Juliet to his Romeo"
Define Concrete Poetry
Poem that uses a pattern of words to create an image