7th - 9th Grade: Books & Literature Flashcards
Name the author who created Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Name the author who created Winne the Pooh
A.A. Milne
Name the author who created Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Name the author who created The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Suess
Name the author who created Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
also wrote Tom Sawyer
Name the author who created Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Name the author who created Hermione Granger
J.K. Rowling
Name the author who created Aslan
C.S. Lewis
Name the author who created Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Name the author who created the Cowardly Lion
L. Frank Baum
Name the author born William Sidney Porter, who wrote Cabbages & Kings as well as his best known short story The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
In literature, what term refers to a comparison between two things that are similar in some way… often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand
Analogy
Who wrote Moby Dick?
Herman Melville
first line: Call me Ishmael…
What name is given to a type of writing composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metical pattern?
Free verse
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
William Golding
Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
Charles Dickens (about London & Paris) (first line: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...)
In what poem by Edgar Allen Poe does the speaker recall his childhood love for a beautiful maiden?
Annabel Lee
What was Dr. Suess’ real name?
Theodore Geisel
Who wrote Black Beauty?
Anna Sewell (first line: The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond...)
What American ornithologist and bird artist is best known for his publication Birds of America?
John James Audubon (pronounced “odd-bon” or odd-o-bon)
What Shakespearean king had three daughters, two were unfaithful but one, Cordelia, was faithful?
King Lear
According to legend, The Earl of Huntington became an outlaw after killing one of the king’s stags. By what name do we know this character that lives in the Sherwood Forest?
Robin Hood
What legend of American literature was raised by coyotes after falling from a wagon as a baby, invented the lasso, rode a cyclone and used a rattlesnake as a whip?
Pecos Bill
What French author wrote the books, Around the world in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?
Jules Verne
Whose memoirs were recounted in book subtitles Diary of a Young Girl?
Anne Frank
What British author wrote the novels Moll Flanders & Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
This author wrote under a pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. Name this author of the political satires 1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell
In what novel does a reclusive uncle named Archibald Craven take in his orphaned niece, Mary Lennox?
The Secret Garden
Who is the author of Lord of the Rings?
J.R.R. Tolkein
Name the author who created characters including Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Count Olaf
Lemony Snicket
they are in his books: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Identify the author who created the fictional setting Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Identify the author who created the fictional setting Narnia
C.S. Lewis
Identify the author who created the fictional setting The Shire
J.R.R. Tolkein
Identify the author who created the fictional setting Who-ville
Dr. Suess OR Theodore Geisel
In what novel are a trio of pets, a lab, bull terrier and a cat, left stranded in a cabin over two hundred miles from home?
The Incredible Journey
Who wrote stories about the Knight, the Reeve and the Wife of Bath, among others, stories collectively known as the Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey (pronounced Jeffery) Chaucer
This cartoonist was from St. Paul, MN. He developed a series based on floppy-eared dog and a number of his friends. The dog’s name was Snoopy. Who was the cartoonist?
Charles Shultz
What Winnie the Pooh character frequently has a missing appendage?
Eeyore (his tail)
Winnie the Pooh written by Milne
What Wilson Rawls novel does Billy Coleman name his two coon hound pups Little Ann and Old Dan
Where the Red Fern Grows
In this book, young Jim Hawkins opens the locked chest of a dead pirate and searches to find treasure. Name this Robert Louis Stevenson novel
Treasure Island
Who was the author of Tiger Eyes, Superfudge and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Judy Blume
What Spanish novelist, at one time captured by Barbary pirates, died on the same day as William Shakespeare?
Miguel de Cervantes
wrote Don Quixote pronounced “Ki-hoe-tay” about a crazy man and his buddy, Sancho, who tries to fight/joust windmills
What is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral
Fable
In the legend of King Arthur, who became his queen?
Guinevere (pronounced Gwen-ah-vare)
In the legend of King Arthur, what was the chalice used by Jesus in the last supper?
The Holy Grail
In the legend of King Arthur, what was the name of his castle?
Camelot (pronounced Cam-a-lot)
In the legend of King Arthur, who was the old Celtic magician and seer?
Merlin
Who wrote A Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
Jeff Kinney
In what Jane Austen novel is Mrs. Bennett determined to find wealthy husbands for her five daughters?
Pride and Prejudice
In literature, what is a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character
Foil
What is the literary term that refers to a character who change over the course of a story?
Dynamic character
Who wrote a Midsummer’s Night Dream?
William Shakespeare
In what novel would one meet Estella, Magwitch, Joe Gargery, Miss Havisham and Pip?
Great Expectations
written by Charles Dickens
What author created characters including Becky thatcher, Aunt Polly, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer?
Mark Twain
Name the novel that include characters such as Lucy, Edmund, Mr. Tumnus and Aslan
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
In a Diary of a Wimpy Kid, what is the name of the main character and his brothers?
Greg Heffley (main character)
Manny & Roderick (brothers)
written by Jeff Kinney
Who wrote the poem “Defense of Fort McHenry” which later become known as The Star Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
What was Mark Twain’s real name?
Samuel Clemens
Who wrote Frankenstein’s Monster?
Mary Shelley
What is an account of someone’s life written by someone else.
Biography
In what story by Rudyard Kipling is this line
found?
“It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten
a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose
to tail with curiosity.”
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (the name of the mongoose)
Who is the author of “Little House on the Prairie” and “Little Cabin in the Big Woods”?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
What popular author wrote “On the Banks of Plum Creek”?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Identify the novel in which the following well-known literary characters appear: Wilbur & Templeton
Charlotte’s Web
Identify the novel in which the following well-known literary characters appear: Becky Thatcher & Aunt Polly
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Identify the novel in which the following well-known literary characters appear: Omri & Patrick
The Indian in the Cupboard
What is the term for a character with which the protagonist conflicts?
Antagonist
Plays are broken down into these sections
Acts
What element in a story conveys a feeling of uncertainty or dread about what will happen next?
Suspense
Name the children’s book that tells about a boy named Max who deals with his emotions through the use of his imagination
Where the Wild Things Are
What reclusive poet penned the line, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul?”
Emily Dickinson
What word refers to a lengthy poem that tells a story in simple stanzas, often intended to be sung?
Ballad
When given the the name of the animal in literature, tell what kind of animal it is: Ralph
Mouse
When given the the name of the animal in literature, tell what kind of animal it is: Buttercup
Cat (Hunger Games)
When given the the name of the animal in literature, tell what kind of animal it is: Rikki Tikki Tavi
Mongoose
Who wrote the poem, “O Captain, My Captain!”?
Walt Whitman
What Scottish writer is best known for his creation of one of the most memorable characters in English literature, Sherlock Holmes?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What type of writing is a very long story, told by early Vikings?
Saga
What type of writing is a newspaper article that states an opinion?
Editorial
What type of writing is a drama where the main character suffers?
Tragedy
What type of writing is a story handed down through generations?
Folk tale
What is the name of a humorous poem that has five lines?
Limerick
What is the literary device used when logical presumptions are made based on statements assumed to be true
Inference
What author wrote the novel “Go Set a Watchman” 20 years prior to the publication of her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Harper Lee
Name the fictional animal doctor who learns the languages of animals in order to treat them more effectively
Dr. Doolittle
In literature, what animal s the symbol of nobility, fertility and royalty?
The Lion
State from which Mark Twain’s Yankee in
King Arthur’s court comes
Connecticut
full title: “A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court”
Who wrote A Red Badge of Courage?
Stephen Crane
Author of ―The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‖
Washington Irving
Name of the 9 year-old female character created by Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
Where does the Dursley family live in the Harry Potter series?
4 Privet Drive, Surrey
Name any two of Alexander Dumas’ three musketeers
Athos, Porthos and Aramis
Name the children’s book that tells about a boy named Max who deals with emotions through the use of his imagination
Where the Wild Things Are
This novel about a Lithuanian immigrant caused a movement for changes in the meat packing industry
The Jungle
Who wrote the novel, The Jungle, which caused legislation within the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
What titular character says, “ Get thee to a nunnery”
Hamlet (by Shakespeare)
Novel about alien invaders by H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds
What American author, who was friends with Ernest Hemmingway, wrote The Great Gasby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What American author wrote the novella, The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway
What name was given to the post-WW1 authors who lived in Paris, including Ernest Hemingway
Lost Generation
