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1
When J.R.R. Tolkien was an Oxford professor, he founded a literary club. What was it called?
Bards Well
Sharpened Pencils
Dead Poets' Society
Inklings
2
Adage, Cliche, Colloquialism, Hyperbole
Settings
Turning Point
Diction
Rhetorical Devices
3
What is anaphora?
The repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry
The repetition of the same word or group of words
The rearrangement of words away from natural word order
Words that sound like what they mean
4
What Disney movie, with Julie Andrews as a nanny, was originally a novel written by P. L. Travers?
Nanny MchPhee
The Sound of Music
The Princess Diaries
Mary Poppins
5
How many lines are contained in a sestet?
6
5
7
8
6
Beowulf faces a monster named __________.
Gremlin
Hrunting
Grendel
Dragoon
7
Which is an example of alliteration?
Billy is acting silly.
Tommy swam in the ocean.
I ran to school.
Sally swam silently in the sea.
8
Which story by Washington Irving has the character Ichabod Crane?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
Tales of a Traveller
Johnny Appleseed
9
John Keats wrote what poem to a singing bird?
"Ode to Big Bird"
"Ode to a Crow"
"Ode to a Nightingale"
"Ode to a Kingfisher"
10
Which is NOT one of the four sisters in Louisa May Alcott's
Little Women
?
Meg
Jo
Beth
Liz
11
Which is NOT an example of hyperbole?
It was so hot, the chickens laid hard-boiled eggs!
He got $100 for his birthday!
He jumped 10 feet in the air when he saw the snake!
She was so tired she could have slept for a year!
12
Which Russian novelist was also a physician?
Leo Tolstoy
Anton Chekhov
Edgar Allan Poe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
13
In
A Christmas Carol
, how many ghosts visit Scrooge?
Four
Three
Five
One
14
Wordplay involving the use of a word with two different meanings is a
Repetition
Sound clusters
Pun
Slang
15
Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote her
Anne of Green Gables
novels about a girl who lived on this island:
Ireland
The Island of Cyprus
The Isle of Man
Prince Edward Island
16
Which is NOT an example of an anachronism?
An electric guitar included in a painting from the 1700s.
Somebody in a movie set in 1950 using a laptop computer.
An advertisement showing someone using a microwave in 2015.
A painting showing a clock on the wall of a Roman fort.
17
Who wrote the
Chronicles of Narnia
series?
E.B White
Jack London
C.S Lewis
Enid Blyton
18
Who wrote
Alice in Wonderland?
John Kennedy
Lewis Carroll
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roald Dahl
19
Veronica Roth's
Divergent
series is set in a post-apocalyptic version of which city?
Chicago
Dallas
Las Vegas
Atlanta
20
Mary Ann Evans was the real name for which author?
Mavis Brown
Jackie Collins
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Eliot
21
How many lines are contained in an octave?
7
5
8
6
22
What novel written by Oscar Wilde has to do with immortality?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Canterville Ghost
Salome
De Profunis
23
Alliteration is...
Repetition of a consonant sound in two or more words
Repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words
24
What is "Kenning"
A teacher at Wheeler
Ye Old English proverb passes down
using alliteration within a passage
compound word substituted for a thing
25
What is hyperbole?
Describing animals, objects, or ideas with human qualities
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
The feelings the reader gets from a story
The way an author reveals a character's personality
26
Dan Brown's
Da Vinci Code
opens with a murder in which famous museum?
The Louvre
The National Gallery
Musee D'orsay
The British Museum
27
Emily Bronte's
Wuthering Heights
tells of a tragic romance between two lovers. What were their names?
Heathcliff and Catherine
Heather and Charles
Heathcliff and Rose
Heathcliff and Caroline
28
Which is the allusion?
Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?
This place is like a Garden of Eden.
Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.
All are correct.
29
Define satire.
A work that targets human follies for reform. Often funny.
Language that is used as a substitute for a harsher reality.
30
Which character that spoke to animals was first introduced by novelist, Hugh Lofting?
Hortence Wilbur
Dr. White
Dr. Dolittle
Anne with an "e"
31
What novel centers around marriage during the 19th century, and involves five sisters needing a husband?
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
32
Who wrote
Charlotte's Web
and
Stuart Little?
E.B White
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tokien
Lewis Caroll
33
A
euphemism
is a word that replaces another in order to...
improve negative connotations
fix incorrect denotations
create humor
correct false assumptions
34
Which of Tolkien's fantasy characters inhabit the world of Middle Earth?
the Muggles
the Seven Dwarfs
the Hobbits
the Witches of Eastwick
35
What does archetype mean?
anti-hero
old man
superhero
ideal model
36
Which store is
not
an example of alliteration?
Chucke E Cheese
Bed Bath and Beyond
Best Buy
Boston Market
37
This epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia is considered to be the earliest surviving piece of literature.
Don Quixote
Theogony
The Canterbury Tales
The Epic of Gilgamesh
38
What form does blank verse take?
unrhymed anapestic trimeter
unrhymed spondaic trimeter
unrhymed iambic pentameter
rhymed iambic pentameter
39
Jane Eyre
was written by which of the Bronte sisters?
Emily
Anne
Charlotte
Jackie
40
What classic by Homer relates the adventures of a man trying to go home after defeating Troy?
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
A Thousand and One Nights
Oedipus Rex
41
Foreshadowing is...
a struggle between opposing forces
a clue or hint about something that is going to happen later
describing animals, objects, or ideas with human qualities
the environment of the story (place, time, location)
42
In which state do Mark Twain’s characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live?
Arkansas
Alabama
Mississippi
Missouri
43
What is Iambic Pentameter?
a chorus in a poem
Words that rhyme
a form of imagery
5 pairs of syllables
44
What is the name of the python in Rudyard Kiplings'
Jungle Book
?
Mortimer
Scar
Kaa
King
45
How many full-length novels were written by Jane Austen?
Three
Six
One
Thirty
46
The purpose of an ellipsis in a quote is to indicate
that material has been omitted
that I don't remember what was said.
the quote continues on
that bad words were there
47
What is the name of the brother of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes?
Mycroft
Enola Holmes
Watson
Frederick Holmes
48
Who is Harry Potter's best female friend?
Clementine
Cora
Ralph
Hermione
49
I can recognize a Quatrain because each stanza has how many lines?
4
1
2
3
50
Of the following locations, which TWO are not places that Shakespeare performed his work?
The Rose
The Globe
The Tearoom
The Bear Garden
The Swan
The Regent
51
Which punctuation is ellipsis?
...
!
( )
;
52
What is the definition of a free verse poem?
no predictable rhythm or rhyme
repeating the same word throughout the poem
the repetition of consonant sounds
not using any punctuation
53
In Orwell's
1984
, who serves as the leader of The Party?
Winston
Julie
Big Brother
O'Brien
54
Dramatic irony occurs in the play when...
whenever Shakespeare stages a fight
when the friar believes he can unite the feuding famiies
when the audience knows something that the characters do not
when Lord Capulet tell Juliet to marry Paris
55
In what fictional town is Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird
set?
Maycomb, Alabama
Covington, Georgia
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Jackson, Mississippi
56
What is malapropism?
Incorrectly using syntax
Slang
Unintentional misuse of a word
Bad language
57
Which author wrote about a boy named Charlie who won a golden ticket?
Lewis Carrol
Theodore Giesel
Dr. Seuss
Roald Dahl
