Literary Terms Jeopardy
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Literary Terms Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Parts of Plot
The sequence of events in a story
$100 Answer from Parts of Plot
What is plot?
$200 Question from Parts of Plot
Where the conflict gets worse and worse.
$200 Answer from Parts of Plot
What is rising action?
$300 Question from Parts of Plot
The highest point of action in a story
$300 Answer from Parts of Plot
What is the climax?
$400 Question from Parts of Plot
The part of the plot where the story is wrapped up
$400 Answer from Parts of Plot
What isresolution/denouement?
$500 Question from Parts of Plot
Where characters and setting are introduced
$500 Answer from Parts of Plot
What is exposition?
$100 Question from Words I
When characters struggle with thoughts, feelings, fears
$100 Answer from Words I
What is internal conflict?
$200 Question from Words IOne who plays an important role in the plot
$200 Answer from Words I
What is major character?
$300 Question from Words I
The narrator is “outside” of the story.
$300 Answer from Words I
What is third person point of view?
$400 Question from Words I
The main character of a story
$400 Answer from Words I
What is a protagonist?
$500 Question from Words I
The message about life that the author is trying to give
$500 Answer from Words I
What is theme?
$100 Question from Words II
The part of the plot where the problem is introduced
$100 Answer from Words II
What is the narrative hook?
$200 Question from Words II
One who changes due to events in the plot
$200 Answer from Words II
What is a dynamic character?
$300 Question from Words IIWhen a character struggles with something outside him/herself
$300 Answer from Words II
What is external conflict?
$400 Question from Words II
The character who opposes the main character of the story
$400 Answer from Words II
What is an antagonist?
$500 Question from Words IIThe narrator is “inside” the story
$500 Answer from Words II
What is first person point of view?
$100 Question from Words III
A character who does not change in the story
$100 Answer from Words III
What is static character?
$200 Question from Words III
A character who plays a small role in the plot
$200 Answer from Words III
What is a minor character?
$300 Question from Words III
The time and place of the story
$300 Answer from Words III
What is the setting?
$400 Question from Words IIIPoint of view where the narrator watches the thoughts and actions of several characters
$400 Answer from Words III
What is omniscient point of view?
$500 Question from Words IIIThe part of the plot occuring after the climax
$500 Answer from Words III
What is falling action?
$100 Question from Real Life Examples
The narrator adopts a new black cat that follows him home
$100 Answer from Real Life Examples
What is rising action?
$200 Question from Real Life ExamplesRainsford and Whitney talk about the feelings (or the lack of feelings) on the part of the hunted
$200 Answer from Real Life Examples
What is exposition?
$300 Question from Real Life Examples
Ebenezer Dorsett accepts $250 to take his son back from the kidnappers
$300 Answer from Real Life Examples
What is the climax?
$400 Question from Real Life Examples
Miss Emily refuses to pay her taxes by stating, “I have no taxes in Jefferson.”
$400 Answer from Real Life Examples
What is a narrative hook?
$500 Question from Real Life Examples
The police tear down the wall to find the narrator’s wife’s body.
$500 Answer from Real Life Examples
What is resolution?
Final Jeopardy
. something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is an oxymoron?