Cool Team Names for Literature

Five literature team names a press: figures of speech, plot and genre terms, grammar puns, literary groups.

Cool Team Names for Literature

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  1. Active VoicesIn the active voice the subject carries out the action.
  2. Appositive AttitudeAn appositive is a noun set beside another noun to explain it.
  3. Text Evidence
  4. Works Cited
  5. Predicate Nominees

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111 team names for a literature class, a quiz bowl or a literary group, from Dramatic Ironists to Loose Canons. 73 print the meaning of their literary or grammar term under the name; no author or book is named.

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Good literature team names from the terms

Not Bad at Litotes works because litotes states a thing by denying its opposite. Third Person Limited is a narrator held to one character's view. Apostrophe to the Moon uses the other apostrophe: a speech addressed to someone or something absent.

A good name for a literary group

Literary groups and class teams has 26 names for a society, a salon or a seminar: The Literati, Lamplight Literary Society, Literary Salon Regulars, The Unabridged and Required Reading. Book clubs have a list of their own, reading group names.

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What are cool team names for literature?

Best Hyperbole Ever, The Irony Board, Allusions of Grandeur, Tragic Flaws, Magical Realists and Sonnet Boom. Each is built on a term from a literature class.

What's a good name for a literary group?

Literary Lions, Lit Wits, Prose Pros, Seminar Circle and Annotation Nation. For a group that writes, see writing group names.

What are good literature team names?

Interrobang Gang, Semicolon Semi-Pros, Appositive Attitude, Predicate Nominees, Ampersand Castles and Fewer, Not Less are six of the 29 in Grammar and punctuation puns.

What are funny literature group names?

Onomatopoeia Goes Boom, Personification Personified, Falling Action Heroes, Asterisk Takers and Syntax Evaders.

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Figure of speech puns 28

  • Allusions of Grandeur An allusion is an indirect reference to something the reader is expected to know.
  • Analogy Anthology An analogy explains one thing by its resemblance to another.
  • Anaphora Again and Again Anaphora repeats a phrase at the start of successive lines or sentences.
  • Antithesis Statement Antithesis sets two contrasting ideas side by side in parallel form.
  • Apostrophe to the Moon This apostrophe is a speech addressed to someone or something absent.
  • Awfully Able Alliterators Alliteration repeats a consonant sound at the start of nearby words.
  • Best Hyperbole Ever Hyperbole is deliberate, extreme overstatement.
  • Cliché Collectors A cliché is a phrase used so often that it has lost its force.
  • Connotation Station A connotation is a meaning a word suggests beyond what it states.
  • Dramatic Ironists In dramatic irony the audience understands what the characters do not.
  • Euphemistically Speaking A euphemism replaces a blunt word with a milder one.
  • Extended Metaphors A metaphor calls one thing by the name of another to imply a likeness.
  • Highly Motif-ated A motif is a recurring element in a work.
  • Idiomatic Expressions An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be read from its words.
  • The Irony Board Irony says one thing and means something else, often the opposite.
  • Juxtaposition Position Juxtaposition places contrasting things side by side for effect.
  • Like a Simile A simile compares two things outright, with like or as.
  • Literally Figurative
  • Metonymy Matters Metonymy names a thing by something closely tied to it.
  • No Pun Unturned A pun is wordplay on words that sound alike or have two meanings.
  • Not Bad at Litotes Litotes states a thing by denying its opposite, as in not bad.
  • Onomatopoeia Goes Boom An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like what it names.
  • Personification Personified Personification gives human qualities to an object or an idea.
  • Symbol Crashers A symbol is a thing that stands for an idea.
  • Synecdoche Squad Synecdoche names a part to mean the whole, or the whole to mean a part.
  • Tone and Mood Swings Mood is the emotional character of a work.
  • Understatement of the Year Understatement makes a thing seem smaller or less important than it is.
  • We Foreshadowed This Win To foreshadow is to hint at something in advance.

Plot, genre and narrator names 28

  • The Anticlimactics An anticlimax is an unsatisfying resolution to a story.
  • The Antiheroes An antihero is a protagonist who acts in unheroic ways.
  • Catharsis Club Catharsis is the release of emotion an audience feels, as at a tragedy.
  • Character Foils A foil is a character whose contrast brings out the traits of the main character.
  • Comedy of Manners A comedy of manners satirizes the manners of a social class.
  • The Denouement The denouement is the resolution of a plot.
  • Dramatic Monologues A dramatic monologue is a poem in the form of one character's speech.
  • Dynamic Characters A dynamic character changes over the course of the story.
  • Dystopian Optimists A dystopia is a miserable, oppressive society.
  • Exposition Expedition Exposition is the opening part that gives the background of the characters and setting.
  • Fable Table A fable is a tale that teaches a lesson, often with animals as its characters.
  • Falling Action Heroes The falling action comes after the climax and before the resolution.
  • Frame Story A frame story is a narrative that sets the stage for another story inside it.
  • The Greek Chorus The chorus of an ancient play commented on the action in speech or song.
  • Heroic Couplets A heroic couplet is two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter.
  • Magical Realists Magic realism mixes realistic detail with dreamlike elements.
  • Mock Epics A mock epic treats a trivial subject in a grand heroic style.
  • Omniscient Narrators An omniscient narrator has total knowledge of the story.
  • Poetic Justice Poetic justice: virtue is rewarded and vice punished.
  • Rising Action The rising action leads up to the climax.
  • Round Characters A round character is complex and fully developed.
  • Soliloquy Society In a soliloquy a character speaks to themselves and so reveals their thoughts.
  • Sonnet Boom A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines with a set rhyme scheme.
  • Stream of Consciousness Stream of consciousness writes out a character's continuous flow of thoughts.
  • Subplot Twist A subplot is a second plot, subsidiary to the main one.
  • Third Person Limited A third-person limited narrator is held to one character's view.
  • Tragic Flaws A tragic flaw is the trait that leads a character to ruin.
  • Tragicomic Relief Tragicomedy combines elements of tragedy and comedy.

Grammar and punctuation puns 29

  • Active Voices In the active voice the subject carries out the action.
  • Affect and Effect
  • Air Quotes
  • Ampersand Castles The ampersand is the sign &, which stands for and.
  • Antecedent Unclear An antecedent is the word a pronoun refers to.
  • Appositive Attitude An appositive is a noun set beside another noun to explain it.
  • Asterisk Takers
  • Clause for Applause A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb.
  • Comma Drama
  • Ellipsis Eclipse An ellipsis is the row of dots that marks omitted words.
  • Fewer, Not Less
  • Future Perfect The future perfect is the tense of will have won.
  • Grammar Slammers
  • If We Were Subjunctive The subjunctive mood expresses what is hypothetical or wished for.
  • Imperative Mood: Win The imperative mood gives an order.
  • Indefinite Articles An indefinite article shows that a noun means any member of its class.
  • Independent Clauses An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence.
  • Interrobang Gang The interrobang joins a question mark and an exclamation mark in one sign.
  • Misplaced Modifiers
  • Not Unlike Double Negatives
  • Object of the Preposition
  • Parallel Structure Parallel structure balances phrases of the same grammatical form.
  • Past Imperfect
  • Predicate Nominees
  • Proper Nouns A proper noun names a particular person, place or thing.
  • Semicolon Semi-Pros
  • Sentence Diagrammers A sentence diagram is a picture of a sentence's grammatical structure.
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Syntax Evaders Syntax is the set of rules for combining words into sentences.

Literary groups and class teams 26

  • Annotated Edition
  • Annotation Nation
  • Anthology Athletes
  • Critical Lenses
  • Essay Aces
  • Highlighter Brigade
  • Lamplight Literary Society
  • Lit Crit Crew
  • Lit Wits
  • Literary Circle of Five
  • Literary Devices
  • Literary Lions
  • Literary Merit Badge
  • Literary Salon Regulars
  • The Literati Literati are well-read people with an interest in literature.
  • Literature Bowl Lineup
  • Loose Canons A canon is the group of works accepted as representing a field.
  • Prose Pros
  • Quotation Hunters
  • Required Reading
  • Seminar Circle
  • Text Evidence
  • Themes and Variations
  • The Unabridged
  • Works Cited
  • World Lit Travelers