High School: Literature

Question 1

This award-winning novel by Jason Reynolds tells the story of 15 year-old Will who has just seen his brother murdered. Will is visited by ghosts on an elevator ride who tell stories that help Will decide whether to exact revenge

Answer 1

Long Way Down

Question 2

In which Samuel Becket play do two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, engage in a series of discussions and encounters while waiting for the title character that never shows up?

Answer 2

Waiting for Godot (guh-DOUGH)

Question 3

In English, what is the superlative form of the words many, much and some?

Answer 3

Most

Question 4

This award-winning novel by Karen Hesse is a poem that reads like a novel. Name this work that tells the story of Billie Joe who struggles to help her family survive the Dust Bowl years of the Depression

Answer 4

Out of the Dust

Question 5

This adjective means belonging to a time period other than the one being portrayed

Answer 5

anachronistic
(ann-ACK-ron-ISS-tick)

Question 6

Identify the book that transitioned to screen in 2022: Kya is accused of murdering Chase in North Carolina

Answer 6

Where the Crawdads Sing

Question 7

Identify the book that transitioned to screen in 2022: Belly falls for two boys at the beach

Answer 7

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Question 8

Identify the book that transitioned to screen in 2022: Hercule Poirot solves a murder in Egypt

Answer 8

Death on the Nile

Question 9

What literary device hints at future events

Answer 9

Foreshadowing

Question 10

What literary device sets the overall mood and message of the book

Answer 10

Tone

Question 11

What literary device provides background information to give context

Answer 11

Exposition

Question 12

What literary device has two contradictory words to describe one thing

Answer 12

Oxymoron

Question 13

What literary device compares two similar things by saying one is the other

Answer 13

Metaphor

Question 14

What literary device places two or more dissimilar things side by side

Answer 14

Juxtaposition

Question 15

What literary device contrasts between how things seem and how they really are

Answer 15

Irony

Question 16

What literary device appeals to the senses through descriptive language

Answer 16

Imagery

Question 17

What literary device is a polite way to describe something innapropriate

Answer 17

Euphemism

Question 18

What literary device term for recurring symbol, model or pattern of character type

Answer 18

Archetype

Question 19

What literary device is a term for casual and informal language in writing

Answer 19

Colloquialism
(kuh·low·kwee·uh·li·zm

Question 20

Which Welsh poet and writer is most famous for his poems “And Death shall have no dominion” and “Do not go gentle into that good night”?

Answer 20

Dylan Thomas

Question 21

When this Young Adult author won the Newberry Award for his 1986 novel, Dogsong, he didn’t know what that meant. Name this author who taught generations of kids to survive in the woods with only a hatchet

Answer 21

Gary Paulsen

Question 22

In the sentence, “My car broke down and it’s raining; the world hates me!” The phrase “the world hates me” is using p art of something to represent the whole. What is the name for this device?

Answer 22

Synecdodche (Sa-nect-do-Key)