English Terms
A story written by someone about the events of their own life.
What is an autobiography?
Rich and grumpy old businessman must correct his mistakes on Christmas Eve with the help of spirits who show him the effects of his wrongdoing and greed.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Young girl must defend her family and home from an oppressive government by fighting in a competition for entertainment.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
The most famous medieval story from Scandinavia featuring a warrior who must fight people and mythological creatures across Denmark.
What is Beowulf?
Book about an authoritarian government controlling England.
What is 1984?
Overused phrase or expression.
What is a cliche?
Lucky child gets a tour of a mysterious candy maker's factory after winning a contest.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Greek hero who leaves home to fight in the Trojan War and fights his way home through monsters and challenges sent by Gods to stop him.
Who is Odysseus?
Book by Geoffrey Chaucer about an unlikely group of pilgrims in South England.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
Book that described World War One from the perspective of a soldier fighting in it from a young idealistic man, to a hardened, experienced soldier.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
Person or object that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
A young girl falls into a surreal world after following a rabbit underground.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
The ultimate detective who lives in Victorian London, England and provides rational explanations to crimes with no explanation or thought to have supernatural causes.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Story of 2 star crossed lovers who die for each others love.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Book telling the story of a medieval knight in Spain that chases windmills and generally makes a fool of himself while taking himself all too seriously.
What is Don Quixote?
Human qualities to non human things.
What is personification?
Group of friends must travel across a dangerous fantasy world on a quest to destroy a piece of jewelry.
What is Lord of the Rings?
A boy who lives on an island located between 2 stars in the night sky who brings other children to stay on the island to battle a pirate captain and to let his friends stay kids forever like him.
Who is Peter Pan?
Story of a prince of Denmark who asks a skull "To be or not to be, that is the question."
What is Hamlet?
Story from Afghanistan of a boy who enjoys flying kites in a local celebration who is forced to flee his hometown because of war.
The Kite Runner.
Contrast between what is expected and what happens.
What is irony?
A boy known for an old injury to his forehead must adjust to life in a parallel world where he is famous for almost dying and being an orphan.
What is Harry Potter?
A young girl in the Southern US has fun with friends, discovers the source of stories of a ghost haunting in an old neighborhood house and witnesses the trial of a local man who is falsely accused of a crime.
Who is Scout Finch?
Story by Dante Allegri describing layers of the underworld, as well as purgatory and heaven too.
What is Divine Comedy?
Book describing a search on a river for a military commander who disappeared into the jungle after being sent by a foreign country to create a colony. Was also the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now.
What is The Heart of Darkness?