Authors
The author of David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol
Who is Charles Dickens?
A young girl who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world.
Who is Alice in Wonderland?
The story of a young girl who becomes increasingly aware of the hypocrisy and prejudice in her small southern town in the coming-of-age story by Harper Lee.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This type of verse is characterised by five feet of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed.
What is the iambic pentameter?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel.
What are dystopian novels?
The author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Who is Jane Austen?
A young orphan born in a workhouse who joins a gang of pickpockets
Who is Oliver Twist?
story of a young scientist who creates a monster in an scientific experiment
What is Frankenstein?
The title of the first Harry Potter book in the USA
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
A genre written by people such as Frank Herbert or Isaac Asimov
What is science fiction?
The author of Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl
Who is John Steinbeck?
The family of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
What is the Capulet family?
A castaway spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued
What is Robinson Crusoe?
A central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.
What is an anti-hero?
The author of Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The son of Odysseus in The Odyssey
Who is Telemachus?
Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel.
What is 1984?
This novel, the author's only published work until recently, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word
What is a euphemism?
The author of The Blind Assassin, The Testaments, The Edible Woman
Who is Margaret Atwood?
An idealised vision of the ultimate individualist in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt?
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
What is Brave New World?
This British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Who is Winston Churchill?
two words used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings
What is an oxymoron?