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Background An Episode of War/Frederick Douglass Owl Creek Bridge Jumping Frog Outcasts of Poker Flat The Story of an Hour/ To Build a Fire
Realism took place in America during this historical time period/war. A 100
What is the Civil War? A 100
This is the major difference between realism and naturalism. A 200
What is realism dealt with man’s influence on the world and naturalism dealt with nature’s influence on man? A 200
This is a reflection of death and mourning. A 300
What is an elegy? A 300
In Realism, this is prioritized over plot. A 400
What is characterization? A 400
This writer coined the term “gilded age.” A 500
Who is Mark Twain? A 500
When Crane describes the soldiers as “aggregation of wheels, levers, motors,” with “a beautiful unity,” he is emphasizing this about the wounded lieutenant. B 100
What is the idea that “he is an outsider now who has no place in the machinery of war”? B 100
This is how Douglass feels about slavery in terms of the slaveholder-slave relationship. B 200
What is “slavery goes against the nature of both slaves and slaveholders”? B 200
Douglass’s story reveals this that in the South slaves and women were both this. B 300
What are subject to white male authority? B 300
These people were ultimately responsible for teaching Douglass how to read. B 400
Who are the neighborhood boys? B 400
Describe the place of fate within two pieces of this unit. B 500
What are “various answers accepted”? B 500
The following statement is written in this person/point of view: “He was awakened-ages later, it seemed to him-by…a sharp pressure.” C 100
What is third-person limited point of view? C 100
The following statement is written in this person/point- of-view: “The thought of his wife and children urged him on.” C 200
What is third person omniscient? C 200
This is the main function of the flashback in this story. C 300
What is to explain why Peyton Farquhar is being hanged? C 300
DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
This event in the story provides a clue that certain events occur in Peyton Farquhar’s imagination rather than in reality. C 400
What is the incredible detail of the river bank? C 400
Peyton Farquhar was loyal to this side of the war for this reason. C 500
What is the south because he was a wealthy plantation owner with many slaves? C 500
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” has a story-within-a-story, which is also known as this. D 100
What is a frame tale? D 100
This example of regional dialect: “He roused up, and gave me good day” means this. D 200
What is “he stood up and greeted me”? D 200
These things make this story a Regionalist piece. D 300
What are “various answers accepted”? D 300
This aspect of the story makes it humorous. D 400
What is “Simon Wheeler’s not recognizing how ridiculous his tale is”? D 400
Tell me what this example of regional dialect means: “[Smiley’s dog] would grab the other dog…and hang on till they throwed up the sponge.” D 500
What is “admit that they had lost the bet”? D 500
The characters in this story are stereotypical characters, also known as these types of characters. E 100
What are stock characters? E 100
The four outcasts first behave this way when they are kicked out of town. E 200
What is with bitterness? E 200
The fact that Mother Shipton refers to Piney as “the child” suggests that she is this. E 300
What is that “she cares for Piney and wants to help her”? E 300
The title of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is ironic for this reason. E 400
What is because the outcasts are better people than those who exile them? E 400
This piece is a Regionalist piece of writing for these reasons. E 500
What are the setting, the dialect, the attitudes of the townspeople, etc…? E 500
Mrs. Mallard believes that she will live for this person now that her husband is dead. F 100
Who is herself? F 100
London suggests this when he writes: “The dog did not know anything about thermometers… But the brute had its instinct.” F 200
What is that the dog does not need a device to measure the cold? F 200
This could be considered the central message of “To Build a Fire.” F 300
What is “to survive in the wilderness, pay attention to your surroundings”? F 300
In the story, Mrs. Mallard feels something approaching and describes it as “creeping” and something that will “possess her”. What is ironic about this? F 400
What is that it is her freedom she feels coming? F 400
How is “The Story of an Hour” an ironic title? F 500
What is because a character gains her freedom and loses her life in a single hour? F 500
The Final Jeopardy Category is: Irony Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin
Name the three types of irony and give me their definitions along with an example of each. Click on screen to continue
Verbal- when the author means the opposite of what he says. Situational- When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens. Dramatic- When the audience/reader knows something that the characters/actors do not. Click on screen to continue
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