Sure! Here are 50 English literature questions suitable for a junior high school quizzing competition, along with their answers:
General Literature
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Question: Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"? Answer: William Shakespeare
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Question: What is the main theme of George Orwell's "Animal Farm"? Answer: The corruption of power and totalitarianism
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Question: In which novel would you find the character Atticus Finch? Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Question: Who is the author of the fantasy series "Harry Potter"? Answer: J.K. Rowling
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Question: What is the term for a narrative poem that tells a story? Answer: A ballad
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Question: Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge? Answer: A Christmas Carol
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Question: What is the central conflict in "The Great Gatsby"? Answer: The American Dream and its disillusionment
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Question: Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"? Answer: John Milton
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Question: What is a common form of poetry consisting of 14 lines? Answer: A sonnet
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Question: Who is the protagonist in "The Catcher in the Rye"? Answer: Holden Caulfield
Classic Literature
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Question: In "Moby-Dick," what is the name of the ship? Answer: The Pequod
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Question: Which novel is known for the quote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? Answer: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Question: What is the main setting of "Pride and Prejudice"? Answer: England in the early 19th century
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Question: In which book would you find the character Jay Gatsby? Answer: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Question: Who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"? Answer: Mark Twain
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Question: What type of character is a "Foil"? Answer: A character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist
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Question: Which novel features a "futile" search for the "white whale"? Answer: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Question: Who is the author of "Wuthering Heights"? Answer: Emily Brontë
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Question: What does the term "bildungsroman" refer to? Answer: A coming-of-age story
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Question: Who are the two main characters in "Of Mice and Men"? Answer: George and Lennie
Poetry and Drama
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Question: What famous poem begins with "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Answer: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
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Question: Who wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken"? Answer: Robert Frost
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Question: What is the name of the fairy in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? Answer: Puck
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Question: In which work would you find the quote "All the world's a stage"? Answer: As You Like It by William Shakespeare
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Question: What poetic device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words? Answer: Alliteration
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Question: Who wrote the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"? Answer: William Wordsworth
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Question: What is a haiku? Answer: A three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern
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Question: What is the setting of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"? Answer: Scotland
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Question: Who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? Answer: T.S. Eliot
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Question: What type of play is a tragedy? Answer: A serious drama that typically ends in disaster for the main character
Modern Literature
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Question: Who is the main character in "The Hunger Games"? Answer: Katniss Everdeen
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Question: What is the title of John Green's novel about a girl with cancer? Answer: The Fault in Our Stars
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Question: Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? Answer: Oscar Wilde
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Question: What is the significance of the green light in "The Great Gatsby"? Answer: It represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future
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Question: What genre does Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" belong to? Answer: Dystopian fiction
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Question: Who is the author of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"? Answer: Stephen Chbosky
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Question: What narrative perspective is used in "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton? Answer: First-person
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Question: Who wrote "The Fault in Our Stars"? Answer: John Green
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Question: In which novel do characters explore a post-apocalyptic world after a virus outbreak? Answer: The Stand by Stephen King
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Question: Who is the narrator of "The Bell Jar"? Answer: Esther Greenwood
Miscellaneous
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Question: What is a literary device that gives human traits to non-human things? Answer: Personification
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Question: Which author is known for his detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes? Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Question: What is a climax in a story? Answer: The turning point or most intense moment of a story
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Question: Who wrote "Fahrenheit 451"? Answer: Ray Bradbury
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Question: What is the main conflict in "Lord of the Flies"? Answer: The struggle between civilization and savagery
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Question: What is an allegory? Answer: A story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
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Question: Who wrote "The Secret Garden"? Answer: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Question: What is the role of a narrator? Answer: The person or character who tells the story
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Question: What does the term "theme" refer to in literature? Answer: The underlying message or central idea of a work
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Question: What is an epilogue? Answer: A section at the end of a book that concludes the story or provides additional information
These questions and answers cover a wide range of literary topics and should be suitable for a junior high school audience.