HSAP Literary Terms JEOPARDY Did you hear that? Who am I? What’s happening? Go figure! What’s an olio? $10 $20 $30 $40 $50

Answer $10 Did you hear that? This line from Poe’s “The Raven” contains an example of this sound device: “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

Question $10 What is alliteration?

Answer $20 Did you hear that? This is a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem.

Question $20 What is refrain?

Answer $30 Did you hear that? “For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being/Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door….” Poe’s words “ever,” “yet,” and “blessed” are examples of this sound device.

Question $30 What is assonance?

Answer $40 Did you hear that? This is the repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables, such as “seeing” and “being.”

Question $40 What is rhyme?

Answer $50 Did you hear that? “Snap,” “crackle,” “pop,” “whisper,” and “boom” are examples of this sound device.

Question $50 What is onomatopoeia?

Answer $10 Who am I? I am an opponent who struggles against the hero of a story, such as Abigail Williams in THE CRUCIBLE.

Question $10 Who is the antagonist?

Double JEOPARDY  How much do you wish to wager?

Double JEOPARDY Answer I am an individual who changes in some important way as a result of a story’s action.

Double JEOPARDY Question Who is a dynamic character?

Answer $30 Who am I? I am the character who tells the story, as Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY.

Question $30 Who is the narrator?

Answer $40 Who am I? I am the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action.

Question $40 Who is the protagonist?

Answer $50 Who am I? I am any individual in a story or play.

Question $50 Who is a character?

Answer $10 What’s happening? This is a struggle between opposing forces in a story.

Question $10 What is a conflict?

Answer $20 What’s happening? This is the term applied to the conclusion or resolution of a story—where everything is finally “unraveled.”

Question $20 What is denouement?

Answer $30 What’s happening? This is the series of related events in a story or play.

Question $30 What is plot?

Answer $40 What’s happening? This is the part of the plot in which the reader is given important background information on the characters, setting, and problems.

Question $40 What is exposition?

Answer $50 What’s happening? At this point in a plot, readers experience the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest.

Question $50 What is climax?

Answer $10 Go figure! Dickinson’s line “Fame is a bee” is an example of this figure of speech.

Question $10 What is metaphor?

Answer $20 Go figure! In her lines “Because I could not stop for Death--/He kindly stopped for me--/” Miss Dickinson describes Death as a gentleman caller. She uses this device.

Question $20 What is personification?

Answer $30 Go figure! Poe uses this figure of speech when he writes “Helen, thy beauty is to me/Like those Nicean barks [ships] of yore….”

Question $30 What is a simile?

Answer $40 Go figure! Twain uses this type of exaggeration for humor when he writes in LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI: “Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways?”

Question $40 What is hyperbole?

Answer $50 Go figure! With this figurative language, someone or something stands for itself and something else, as Hawthorne’s use of light, which represents truth.

Question $50 What is symbolism/a symbol?

Answer $10 What’s an olio? This term applies to a writer’s attitude toward his subject, character, or reader.

Question $10 What is tone?

Answer $20 What’s an olio? This is the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work, as the narrator’s warning in THE SCARLET LETTER to “Be true, be true, be true…!”

Question $20 What is theme?

Answer $30 What’s an olio? This is a general discrepancy between appearances and reality, as having a minister in THE SCARLET LETTER who is both adored by his congregation and guilty of adultery and hypocrisy.

Question $30 What is irony?

Answer $40 What’s an olio? This personal belief, attitude, or judgment prevents a person from being objective.

Question $40 What is bias?

Answer $50 What’s an olio? For this element, the major action of Fitzgerald’s novel THE GREAT GATSBY takes place on Long Island, New York, during the summer of 1922.

Question $50 What is setting?