7th - 9th Grade: Books & Literature Flashcards
(103 cards)
1
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Name the author who created Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web
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E.B. White
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Name the author who created Winne the Pooh
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A.A. Milne
3
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Name the author who created Peter Pan
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J.M. Barrie
4
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Name the author who created The Cat in the Hat
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Dr. Suess
5
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Name the author who created Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
also wrote Tom Sawyer
6
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Name the author who created Peter Rabbit
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Beatrix Potter
7
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Name the author who created Hermione Granger
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J.K. Rowling
8
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Name the author who created Aslan
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C.S. Lewis
9
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Name the author who created Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
10
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Name the author who created the Cowardly Lion
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L. Frank Baum
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Name the author born William Sidney Porter, who wrote Cabbages & Kings as well as his best known short story The Gift of the Magi
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O. Henry
12
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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
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Analogy
13
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Who wrote Moby Dick?
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Herman Melville
first line: Call me Ishmael…
14
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What name is given to a type of writing composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metical pattern?
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Free verse
15
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Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
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William Golding
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Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
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Charles Dickens (about London & Paris) (first line: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...)
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In what poem by Edgar Allen Poe does the speaker recall his childhood love for a beautiful maiden?
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Annabel Lee
18
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What was Dr. Suess’ real name?
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Theodore Geisel
19
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Who wrote Black Beauty?
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Anna Sewell (first line: The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond...)
20
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What American ornithologist and bird artist is best known for his publication Birds of America?
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John James Audubon (pronounced “odd-bon” or odd-o-bon)
21
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What Shakespearean king had three daughters, two were unfaithful but one, Cordelia, was faithful?
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King Lear
22
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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?
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Robin Hood
23
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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?
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Pecos Bill
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What French author wrote the books, Around the world in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?
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Jules Verne
25
Whose memoirs were recounted in book subtitles Diary of a Young Girl?
Anne Frank
26
What British author wrote the novels Moll Flanders & Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
27
This author wrote under a pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. Name this author of the political satires 1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell
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In what novel does a reclusive uncle named Archibald Craven take in his orphaned niece, Mary Lennox?
The Secret Garden
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Who is the author of Lord of the Rings?
J.R.R. Tolkein
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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
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Identify the author who created the fictional setting Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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Identify the author who created the fictional setting Narnia
C.S. Lewis
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Identify the author who created the fictional setting The Shire
J.R.R. Tolkein
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Identify the author who created the fictional setting Who-ville
Dr. Suess OR Theodore Geisel
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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
36
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
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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
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What Winnie the Pooh character frequently has a missing appendage?
Eeyore (his tail)
| Winnie the Pooh written by Milne
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What Wilson Rawls novel does Billy Coleman name his two coon hound pups Little Ann and Old Dan
Where the Red Fern Grows
40
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
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Who was the author of Tiger Eyes, Superfudge and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Judy Blume
42
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
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What is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral
Fable
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In the legend of King Arthur, who became his queen?
Guinevere (pronounced Gwen-ah-vare)
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In the legend of King Arthur, what was the chalice used by Jesus in the last supper?
The Holy Grail
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In the legend of King Arthur, what was the name of his castle?
Camelot (pronounced Cam-a-lot)
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In the legend of King Arthur, who was the old Celtic magician and seer?
Merlin
48
Who wrote A Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
Jeff Kinney
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In what Jane Austen novel is Mrs. Bennett determined to find wealthy husbands for her five daughters?
Pride and Prejudice
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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
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What is the literary term that refers to a character who change over the course of a story?
Dynamic character
52
Who wrote a Midsummer's Night Dream?
William Shakespeare
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In what novel would one meet Estella, Magwitch, Joe Gargery, Miss Havisham and Pip?
Great Expectations
| written by Charles Dickens
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What author created characters including Becky thatcher, Aunt Polly, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer?
Mark Twain
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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
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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
57
Who wrote the poem "Defense of Fort McHenry" which later become known as The Star Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Clemens
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Who wrote Frankenstein's Monster?
Mary Shelley
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What is an account of someone's life written by someone else.
Biography
61
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)
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Who is the author of "Little House on the Prairie" and "Little Cabin in the Big Woods"?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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What popular author wrote "On the Banks of Plum Creek"?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Identify the novel in which the following well-known literary characters appear: Wilbur & Templeton
Charlotte's Web
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Identify the novel in which the following well-known literary characters appear: Becky Thatcher & Aunt Polly
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Identify the novel in which the following well-known literary characters appear: Omri & Patrick
The Indian in the Cupboard
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What is the term for a character with which the protagonist conflicts?
Antagonist
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Plays are broken down into these sections
Acts
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What element in a story conveys a feeling of uncertainty or dread about what will happen next?
Suspense
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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
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What reclusive poet penned the line, "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul?"
Emily Dickinson
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What word refers to a lengthy poem that tells a story in simple stanzas, often intended to be sung?
Ballad
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When given the the name of the animal in literature, tell what kind of animal it is: Ralph
Mouse
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When given the the name of the animal in literature, tell what kind of animal it is: Buttercup
Cat (Hunger Games)
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When given the the name of the animal in literature, tell what kind of animal it is: Rikki Tikki Tavi
Mongoose
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Who wrote the poem, "O Captain, My Captain!"?
Walt Whitman
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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
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What type of writing is a very long story, told by early Vikings?
Saga
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What type of writing is a newspaper article that states an opinion?
Editorial
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What type of writing is a drama where the main character suffers?
Tragedy
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What type of writing is a story handed down through generations?
Folk tale
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What is the name of a humorous poem that has five lines?
Limerick
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What is the literary device used when logical presumptions are made based on statements assumed to be true
Inference
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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
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Name the fictional animal doctor who learns the languages of animals in order to treat them more effectively
Dr. Doolittle
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In literature, what animal s the symbol of nobility, fertility and royalty?
The Lion
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State from which Mark Twain’s Yankee in
| King Arthur’s court comes
Connecticut
| full title: "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court"
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Who wrote A Red Badge of Courage?
Stephen Crane
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Author of ―The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‖
Washington Irving
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Name of the 9 year-old female character created by Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
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Where does the Dursley family live in the Harry Potter series?
4 Privet Drive, Surrey
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Name any two of Alexander Dumas' three musketeers
Athos, Porthos and Aramis
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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
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This novel about a Lithuanian immigrant caused a movement for changes in the meat packing industry
The Jungle
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Who wrote the novel, The Jungle, which caused legislation within the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
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What titular character says, " Get thee to a nunnery"
Hamlet (by Shakespeare)
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Novel about alien invaders by H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds
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What American author, who was friends with Ernest Hemmingway, wrote The Great Gasby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What American author wrote the novella, The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway
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What name was given to the post-WW1 authors who lived in Paris, including Ernest Hemingway
Lost Generation
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