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Film Adaptations
100

Examples of this could be person vs. society or a person vs. themselves.




What is conflict?




100

The narrator of The Book Thief.




What is Death?




100

The part of speech that describes an action or state of being.




What is a verb?

100

A book that begins with the line line: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."




What is The Hobbit?




100

Many viewers theorize this is simply a retelling of Pocahontas but on a different planet. 




What is Avatar?




200

The central unifying idea of a story.

What is theme?

200

Liesel's last name in The Book Thief.




What is Meminger?




200

A distinct unit of writing usually consisting of multiple sentences that focus on a single main idea or topic.

What is a paragraph?

200

The author of Brave New World.

Who is Aldous Huxley?

200


Directed by Wes Anderson, this is a stop motion film adapted from a beloved children's book written by Roald Dahl.




What is Fantastic Mr. Fox?




300

A recurring element such as an image, sound, and action that appears repeatedly throughout a story




What is a motif?




300

DAILY DOUBLE! The city that Romeo and Juliet takes place in.



What is Verona?



300

An incomplete sentence missing a subject, a verb, or a complete thought.

What is a fragment?

300

DAILY DOUBLE! Name one book written by any of the following authors:

Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Larry McMurtry, or Toni Morrison.

What is (...)?




300

DAILY DOUBLE! A famous Horror movie directed by Stanley Kubrick adapted from a novel by Stephen King starring Jack Nicholson.

What is The Shining?




400

Vivid language which appeals to the senses.

What is imagery?

400

Romeo's unrequited love at the beginning of the play.




Who is Rosaline?

400

The punctuation used to combine two independent clauses (phrases that could be complete sentences).

What is a semicolon?

400

Coming-of-age epistolary novel about a quiet 15-year-old freshman named Charlie navigating high school, trauma, and self-discovery




What is The Perks of Being a Wallflower?




400

One other film adaptation that stars Matt Damon other than The Odyssey.


What is...

The Martian, The Bourne Identity, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Rainmaker, All the Pretty Horses, Ford vs. Ferrari, or We Bought a Zoo?

500

A character which contrasts and highlights the traits of another character in a story.

What is a foil?

500

The location of Romeo's hideout after he is exiled.




What is Mantua?

500

The grammatical error which occurs when a comma is used when a semicolon would be more appropriate.

What is a comma splice?

500

This Regency-era title begins with the following famous line: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

What is Pride and Prejudice?




500

In The Goblet of Fire, Harry eats Gillyweed in order to breathe underwater during the Second Task. What is the small but key distinction between the book and the film in regards to the Gillyweed?

What is...

Dobby gives Harry the Gillyweed in the book, Neville tells him about it in the movie?