English Class Trivia

rich or magnificent

I said, "After all, tomorrow is another day."

I am a great detective; the clue to my identity is elementary.

All my knights sit at a round table.

The account of a person's life written by someone else.

To assemble, construct, or fabricate

What is the largest state in the U.S.?

I am always watching you.

to be filled with self-importance; to be pompous

I wrote poetry but didn't get recognition until after my death.

Proper young English boys become less civilized when faced with life on a deserted island.

Who wrote Charlotte's Web?

The story of four sisters, one becomes a writer.

An example of this kind of sentence is: Sue swimming in the lake.

My creator is A.A. Milne.

I am the King of Ithaca, hero of the Trojan Wars, but I still haven't made it home.

The author tells the story of a man who becomes wealthy by shady means, during the 1920's.

A story that combines technological ideas with fantasy.

I am an English mystery writer who created the detective Hercule Porrot.

When a story is interrupted to go back in time to an earlier event.

Who wrote Don Quixote?

I am a magnificent flying horse born from the blood of Medusa.

Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

Novel: Atticus Finch fights to save a man wrongly accused of a crime in Maycomb.

I write the lines, "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping."

I am obsessed with killing a white whale.

I was called the Bard.

The adverb in this sentence:  His singing is very popular.

a violent disturbance

"That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet."

Which of the following was not a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?

easily tricked, too trusting

A word that tells  how, when, where, to what extent, or how much.

Where did the Olympic games originate?

A word that can be used in place of a noun.

having a terrible reputation, being notorious

In this story, the children find the entrance to Narnia.

The outcome of the conflict in a play or story.

To waste away from lack of use.

A traditional form of Japanese poetry.

Which famous document starts with "When in the course of human events...?"

to become smaller and smaller

A word that expresses an emotion.

It receives the action of the verb and answers the question who or what after the action verb.

Which of the following is not one of the Seven Dwarfs?

I kept a journal during the time I hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

to consume or devour

a long and bitter speech

The story of Helen Keller.

A word that joins other words or groups of words.

Three lines of verse that rhyme together.

lowering oneself to another's level

The struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a story or narrative poem.

to force someone to do something by threatening or physically overpowering them

The account of a writer's memories of the events in his/her life.

A word that describes which one, how many or what kind.  Ex:  quickly, here, often

to have mercy or forgiveness

I am the feline who disappeared leaving only a smile.

What part of speech are words such as from, above, below, in, at, on?

Anything buried here comes to life with frightening consequences.

There are four kinds of sentences.  Which of the following is not one of them?

Comparing two unlike things to give added meaning to one of them.

I was raised by apes and love swinging in trees.

The story of two ranch hands: George Milton and Lennie Small who has the IQ of a child.

I am the Greek god of the underworld.

to shorten by using fewer words

The comparison of two unrelated nouns using like or as.

I am a Greek goddess who has nothing to do but be beautiful.

A word used to express action or state of being.

All I really want is a heart.

The story of a man's unrelenting pursuit of a great white whale.

without making any mistakes

A word that names a person, place or thing.

My novel To Kill a Mockingbird was a best seller.

A fictional story of considerable length.

to weaken by wearing away the foundation; to sabotage

Who said, "I will fight no more forever."?

A sentimental longing for the past.

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.

being obvious, to stand out