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Literary Terms Jeopardy
C E-F M-O P-S Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Honaker Literary Terms Final Jeopardy
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Example: The “bad guy” that we are against!
$100 Question from A A major character who opposes the main character in a story or play. Example: The “bad guy” that we are against!
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$100 Answer from A Antagonist
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Example: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
$200 Question from A The repetition of first consonants in a group of words. Example: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
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$200 Answer from A Alliteration
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Example: “May the force be with you.”
$300 Question from A A reference to something or someone, often literary. Example: “May the force be with you.”
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$300 Answer from A Allusion
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$400 Question from A The overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood. Example: In Science class you might be talking about layers of gases in the earth’s _____________.
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$400 Answer from A Atmosphere
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$500 Question from A A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or ideas. Example: In westerns, the sheriff represents good, and the outlaw represents evil.
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$500 Answer from A Allegory
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$100 Question from C The means by which an author describes the appearance and personality of a person in a story or play. Example: The way an author describes the main ___________ is __________.
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$100 Answer from C Characterization
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Example: The most exciting part of the story.
$200 Question from C The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak. Example: The most exciting part of the story.
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$200 Answer from C Climax
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$300 Question from C To explain how things are alike.
Example: In Algebra, you can’t _________ apples to oranges or x’s to y’s.
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$300 Answer from C Compare
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$400 Question from C The elements that create a plot. This can be internal or external. Example: This can be a battle or a ________ inside a person or a __________ of man against nature.
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$400 Answer from C Conflict
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Example: The opposite of compare.
$500 Question from C To explain how things are different Example: The opposite of compare.
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$500 Answer from C Contrast
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Example: Not the third but the _______.
$100 Question from E-F The point of view of a piece of writing in which the narrator refers to himself as “I.” Example: Not the third but the _______.
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$100 Answer from E-F First Person Point of View
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$200 Question from E-F A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure. Example: The Odyssey
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$200 Answer from E-F Epic
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Example: The Tortoise and the Hare
$300 Question from E-F A story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters. Example: The Tortoise and the Hare
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$300 Answer from E-F Fable
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Example: What usually happens after you hear the music in JAWS!
$400 Question from E-F A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story. Example: What usually happens after you hear the music in JAWS!
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$400 Answer from E-F Foreshadowing
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$500 Question from E-F Language that does not mean exactly what it says. Example: I am so mad steam is coming out of my ears!!! If it can’t happen then it usually is a __________ of speech.
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$500 Answer from E-F Figurative Language
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Example: Ping, Ring, Buzz,
$100 Question from M-O The use of words that sound like what the mean. Example: Ping, Ring, Buzz,
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$100 Answer from M-O Onomatopoeia
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Example: He’s a rock or I am an island.
$200 Question from M-O A comparison that does NOT use “like” or “as.” Example: He’s a rock or I am an island.
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$200 Answer from M-O Metaphor
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$300 Question from M-O A long speech by one character in a play or story (that everyone is supposed to hear). Example: Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and David Letterman do this on the Late Shows.
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$300 Answer from M-O Monologue
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Example: The Greek Gods: Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules…
$400 Question from M-O A legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena. Example: The Greek Gods: Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules…
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$400 Answer from M-O Myth
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Example: Cruel kindness or dumb smarts
$500 Question from M-O A phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words. Example: Cruel kindness or dumb smarts
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$500 Answer from M-O Oxymoron
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Example: “The flames reached for the child hovering in the corner.”
$100 Question from P-S Giving an inanimate object human characteristics. Example: “The flames reached for the child hovering in the corner.”
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$100 Answer from P-S Personification
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Example: The “good guy” or think about another meaning of “for.”
$200 Question from P-S The main character of a novel, play, or story. Example: The “good guy” or think about another meaning of “for.”
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$200 Answer from P-S Protagonist
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Example: The basic ideas of a story in the order that they happened.
$300 Question from P-S The action of the story that summarizes the plan of the main story. Example: The basic ideas of a story in the order that they happened.
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$300 Answer from P-S Plot
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$400 Question from P-S A comparison that uses “like” or “as.”
Example: “I’m as hungry as a wolf.” “Her eyes are like the stars in the sky.”
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$400 Answer from P-S Simile
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Example: “Why can’t you all just get along?”
$500 Question from P-S A question not meant to be answered. Example: “Why can’t you all just get along?”
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$500 Answer from P-S Rhetorical Question
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Final Jeopardy A monologue in which a character expresses his or her thoughts to the audience and does not intend the other characters to hear them.
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Final Jeopardy Answer Soliloquy
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