English Literature Quiz Bee :)

Who is this famous author in English Literature?

• Rudyard Kipling

• Lord Alfred Tennyson

• John Milton

• William Shakespeare

A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending.

• Comedy

• Drama

• Tragedy

• Melodrama

A legendary British king who appears in a series of stories and medieval romances as the leader of a knightly fellowship called the Round Table.

• Zeus

• King Arthur

• King Richard

• King Triton

In the Dr. Seuss story, what did the Grinch try to steal?

• Christmas

• books

• eggs

• Easter

The hobbit of the Shire who inherits the One Ring from his cousin Bilbo and undertakes the quest to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor.

• Sam Gamgee

• Frodo Baggins

• Pippin Took

• Merry Brandybuck

Which of the following is an epic?

• Clash of the Titans

• Romeo and Juliet

• The Hunger Games

• Beowulf

A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

Who is NOT a character from "The Lord of the Rings?"

• Dobby

• Gandalf

• Gollum

• Aragorn

Which famous speech contains the line,

“When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

• "Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln

• “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "Democratic National Convention Keynote Address" by Barack Obama

• “The American Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Which novel begins with this line: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians

• The Book Thief

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone