Terms
Type of drama that ends happily for the main character and is humorous or satiric in tone
Comedy
Little Women; Little Men
Louisa May Alcott
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
The Shakespearean tragedy about star-crossed lovers in Verona, Italy. The young man, thinking his beloved has died, drinks poison at her tomb, while she, awakening from a sleep induced by a potion, stabs herself upon seeing him dead.
Romeo and Juliet
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Marley, or the ghost of Scrooge’s late partner, visits Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Name the other 3 ghosts who visit him, one recalling his youth, a second showing him the Cratchit family, and a third showing him his unmourned death.
The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future.
Main rival of the central character in a play or novel
Antagonist
Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Jane Austen
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Geisel
The famous Sherwood Forest archer and outlaw of medieval England and the woman he loved.
Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
The 4 March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
Amy, Jo, Beth, and Meg.
Interruption of the action in a story to tell about something that happened earlier in time
Flashback
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Richard Bachman
Stephen King
The 2 crime-fighting Hardy Boys.
Frank and Joe
Which 3 words complete the following lines spoken by Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony) in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar: “_____, _____, _____, lend me your ears! / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”?
“Friends, Romans, countrymen.”
14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and having a definite rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Mark Twain
François Marie Arouet
The 2 Mark Twain characters known as the Prince and the Pauper in a novel of the same name.
Edward Tudor (the Prince of Wales) and Tom Canty.
Name The Three Musketeers, or Les Trois Mousquetaires, the fictional characters French author Alexandre Dumas, père, created for an adventure story set during the reigns of kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
a 5-line, often humorous or nonsensical poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
Limerick
Little House in the Big Woods; Little House on the Prairie; On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
Which couple arrived on the Mayflower and became husband and wife about 1622 in a mar- riage made famous by a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem telling their story?
John Alden and Priscilla Mullens (in the poem The Courtship of Miles Standish).
Name the 8 reindeer in Clement C. Moore’s poem “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Donder, Prancer, and Vixen