Literary Terms Jeopardy AZ MERIT PREP

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Literary Terms Jeopardy Reading Literary Elements Fig. Lang. PoetryMisc. Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

Literary Terms Jeopardy Reading Literary Elements Fig. Lang. Poetry Misc. Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Reading The feelings or emotions associated with a word.

$100 Answer from Reading What is connotation?

$200 Question from Reading The time, setting, and place a story happens.

$200 Answer from Reading What is the setting?

$300 Question from Reading The moral, lesson, message, or big idea of a story.

$300 Answer from Reading What is Theme?

$400 Question from Reading A feeling of growing tension and excitement caused by not knowing what will happen next.

$400 Answer from Reading What is Suspense?

$500 Question from Reading The dictionary definition of a word.

$500 Answer from Reading What is Denotation?

$100 Question from Lit. Elements The point of view in which the narrator speaks from his or her own perspective.

$100 Answer from Lit. Elements What is 1 st Person Narrator?

$200 Question from Lit. Elements The hero or central character of a story.

$200 Answer from Lit. Elements Protagonist!

$300 Question from Lit. Elements The point of view in which the narrator tells the story from an outside all seeing all knowing perspective.

$300 Answer from Lit. Elements What is 3 rd Person Omniscient?

$400 Question from Lit. Elements A reference in literature to an historical person, place, event, literary work, or art.

$400 Answer from Lit. Elements What is an Allusion?

$500 Question from Lit. Elements A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond face value.

$500 Answer from Lit. Elements What is a Symbol?

$100 Question from Figuratively A comparison of two objects not using like or as.

$100 Answer from Figuratively What is a Metaphor?

$200 Question from Figuratively Giving human traits or characteristics to something that does not have life.

$200 Answer from Figuratively What is 3 rd Personification?

$300 Question from Figuratively A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using like or as.

$300 Answer from Figuratively What is a Simile?

$400 Question from Figuratively Heads will roll when mom walks in and sees this mess!

$400 Answer from Figuratively What is an Idiom?

$500 Question from Figuratively An extreme exaggeration of speech. Ex. I called you a million times!

$500 Answer from Figuratively What is a Hyperbole?

$100 Question from Poetry A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.

$100 Answer from Poetry What is a Stanza?

$200 Question from Poetry Repetition of the consonant sound. Ex.Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.

$200 Answer from Poetry What is Alliteration?

$300 Question from Poetry Two lines that rhyme.

$300 Answer from Poetry What is a Couplet?

$400 Question from Poetry

$400 Answer from Poetry What is a Sonnet?

$500 Question from Poetry A type of poetry that has no rhyme or meter.

$500 Answer from Poetry What is Free Verse?

$100 Question from Misc. A conclusion we draw about someone or something.

$100 Answer from Misc. What is an Inference?

$200 Question from Misc. Something different than we would expect to see. Ex. I was just talking about football and Eric came to class in his football gear.

$200 Answer from Poetic Misc. What is a Irony?

$300 Question from Misc. This Part of Speech tells us location, time, and direction.

$300 Answer from Misc. What a Preposition?

$400 Question from Misc. This Part of Speech describes a noun.

$400 Answer from Misc. What is an Adjective?

$500 Question from Misc. The most intense moment of a story. After that everything is downhill.

$500 Answer from Misc. What is a the Climax?

Final Jeopardy Clues and hints in the story that tell us of things to come.

Final Jeopardy Answer What is Foreshadowing? Need more help? Poetic Terms Poetic Terminology Take the Literary Terms Test Literary Terms Crossword