Grammar
What is a compound sentence?
This wizard helps Bilbo and his nephew Frodo on their journeys through Middle Earth.
Who is Gandalf?
This writer of dark, mysterious stories and poems is probably most famous for "The Raven."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Who is Simon Rich?
It is the series of events or actions that take place in a story.
What is a plot?
A word that supplies the main action in a sentence falls into this category of parts of speech.
What is a verb?
These two tragic heroes from Verona, Italy are "star-crossed lovers" whose families forbid them to see each other.
Who are Romeo and Juliet?
This writer of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends writes poetry that is loved by young children as well as adults.
Who is Shel Silverstein?
She wrote: "Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
It is a common grammatical error, it involves improper use of a comma to join two independent clauses and creates a run-on sentence.
What is a comma splice?
This boy runs away on a raft down the Mississippi River and is accompanied by a runaway slave named Jim.
Who is Huck Finn?
Who is William Shakespeare?
This famous American author is known for his horror stories such as It and The Shining, but he also writes stories of fantasy and drama.
Who is Stephen King?
The most exciting moment and the culmination of actions in a story is known as this.
What is the climax?
This type of conjunction is used when forming a complex sentence -- it includes words like although, when, because, and if.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
The protagonist of Dickens' Christmas classic, this old man transforms from a stingy curmudgeon into generous patron after being visited by three ghosts.
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
This famous American poet wrote "The Road Not Taken," which made all the difference.
Who is Robert Frost?
He is famous for his stories set in Alaska during the Yukon Gold Rush; stories such as White Fang and The Call of the Wild.
Who is Jack London?
This refers to a message about life or a deeper meaning that a story expresses.
What is a theme?
This type of phrase, words that add extra information in a sentence, is separated from the rest of the sentence with commas.
What is an appositive?
He is the hero of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
This poet of the Romantic Era wrote the famous lines, "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
Who is William Blake?
This famous American author was a fisherman, a boxer, and a volunteer medic in the Spanish Civil War. His famous novels include The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This 11-letter word refers to the main character or hero of a story.
Who is the protagonist?