Quarterly Exam Jeopardy Literary DevicesLiterary Elements Literary Movements Miscellaneous Literary Devices Too! Final Jeopardy

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Question Answer A-100 ANSWER: An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form QUESTION: What is personification?

Question Answer A-200 ANSWER: The literary device used in Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” This short story has a protagonist with a gambling addiction who is being made fun of throughout. QUESTION: What is satire?

Question Answer A-300 ANSWER: The literary device that best represents the following passage: The hot July sun beat relentlessly down, casting an orange glare over the farm buildings, the fields, the pond. Even the usually cool green willows bordering the pond hung wilted and dry. Our sun-baked backs ached for relief. We quickly pulled off our sweaty clothes and plunged into the pond, but the tepid water only stifled us and we soon climbed onto the brown, dusty bank. Our parched throats longed for something cool--a strawberry ice, a tall frosted glass of lemonade. QUESTION: What is imagery?

Question Answer A-400 ANSWER: "My love is such that rivers cannot quench,” is an example of... QUESTION: What is hyperbole

Question Answer A-500 ANSWER: The literary device exemplified in each of the listed lines of this poem Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; QUESTION: What is simile?

Question Answer ANSWER: The literary element which could be represented in a time-line like graphic organizer. It consists of components like exposition and climax. QUESTION: What is plot? B-100

Question Answer B-200 ANSWER: What is the literary element that could be either direct or indirect? QUESTION: What is characterization?

Question Answer B-300 ANSWER: The manner in which an author reveals characters, events and ideas in telling a story. What is point of view?

Question Answer B-400 ANSWER: The component of plot in which conflict usually arises. QUESTION: What is rising action?

Question Answer B-500 ANSWER: A topic broad enough to cover the entire scope of the work. QUESTION: What is theme?

Question Answer C-100 ANSWER: The type of literature within the Colonial period responsible for creation myths and legends QUESTION: What is Native American Literature?

Question Answer C-200 ANSWER: The period in which a shift away from religion (Puritanism) toward logic and reasoning was visible. QUESTION: What is the Revolutionary period or the Age of Reason or Enlightenment?

Question Answer C-300 ANSWER: The type of literature within the Colonial Period which typically displayed an interest in prayer and hard work QUESTION: What is Puritan Literature?

Question Answer C-400 ANSWER: The type of literature responsible for letters, diaries and journals sent back to original homelands not in America. QUESTION: What is European literature?

Question Answer C-500 ANSWER: The literary movement we are now covering QUESTION: What is Realism?

Question Answer D-100 ANSWER: The literary element used in The Great Gatsby, with items like the green light across the bay that Gatsby stretches his arms toward or the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelburg. QUESTION: What is symbolism?

Question Answer D-200 ANSWER: The author ’ s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. QUESTION: What is tone?

Question Answer D-300 ANSWER: An example of this is from Poe’s “The Raven.” “Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door”— Pallas = Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom) QUESTION: What is allusion?

Question Answer D-400 ANSWER: In the opening of The Wizard of Oz, set in Kansas, the transformation of Miss Gulch into a witch on a broomstick _______________s her reappearance as Dorothy's enemy in Oz ) QUESTION: What is foreshadow? Daily Double

Question Answer D-500 ANSWER: The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but he can’t tell us the thoughts of the characters. QUESTION: What is 3 rd person objective point of view?

Question Answer E-100 ANSWER: An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments QUESTION: What is foreshadowing

Question Answer E-200 ANSWER: The Lord of the Flies as an extended metaphor…The island itself is a(n) ________ for society. The author presents 2 levels…children stranded on a deserted island literally and on the 2 nd level, the fact that society can break down due to bad leadership, mob mentality, and a lack of true civilization. QUESTION: What is allegory

Question Answer E-300 ANSWER: The literary device evident in the example below which can be verbal or situational "Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink." QUESTION: What is irony?

Question Answer E-400 ANSWER: The literary device used in the following example… “…the feller touched up the frogs from behind, and the new frog hopped off, but Dan'l give a heave, and hysted up his shoulders so like a Frenchman, but it wan's no use he couldn't budge…” QUESTION: What is dialect?

Question Answer E-500 ANSWER: The literary device used to say a little with a lot as in the example from “The Raven” listed below. ”Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore. Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” QUESTION: What is allusion?

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: Describe the characteristics of Realism. QUESTION: The characteristics of Realism are as follows: Relations between people and society are explored Purpose of writing was to instruct and entertain Language is not heightened or poetic No allegory or symbolism everything was clearly communicated Depended on the use of images Objectivity in the presentation is important