1. Literary Elements Jeopardy!
Definitions
Quotes
Story Map
Characters
Hodge Podge 10 20 30 40 50

2. When the author gives human qualities To an object, animal, or idea.
Definitions– 10 points
Category

3. The underlying message about life or human nature
That the author wants
the reader to
understand
Definitions– 20 points
Category

4. A comparison of two things
using “like” or “as”
Synonyms– 30 points

5. The date and history of a story,
the specific Period of time in which it takes place; the era
Definitions– 40 points

6. The contrast between what the reader Or character expects, and what
Actually happens
Definitions– 50 points

7. What literary element is used in this
“What is it?” Rainsford said. “The old charts call it ‘Ship Trap Island’,” Whitney replied. “A suggestive name, isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why. Some superstition…”
What literary element is used in this
passage?
Quotes– 10 points

8. What kind of conflict is this?
“They came toward me and I broke into a wild run toward home. They overtook me and flung me to the pavement. I yelled, pleaded, kicked, but they wrenched the money out of my hand. They yanked me to my feet, gave me a few slaps, and sent me home sobbing.”
What kind of conflict is this?
Quotes– 20 points

9. What kind of setting is described here?
“The long June twilight faded into night.
Dublin lay enveloped in darkness, but for the dim light of the moon, that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey.”
What kind of setting is described here?
Quotes– 30 points

10. What literary element is being used
“The General raised his thickets
of eyebrows…”
What literary element is being used
in this quotation?
Quotes – 40 points

11. What type of conflict is present
“Finally, I could see I was licked. Doodle
Was my brother and he was going to cling
To me forever, no matter what I did…”
What type of conflict is present
in this passage?
Quotes– 50 points

12. The part in the story where we learn information about the characters,
setting, and background.
Story Map– 10 points

13. The climax has already happened, and this information is bringing the
story to a close.
Story Map– 20 points

14. In this part of a story map, the conflict is (usually) cleared up.
Story Map– 30 points

15. This information/events in a story
lead us to the turning
point in a story.
Story Map– 40 points

16. “Nerve, nerve, nerve.”….Ever nearer drew the hounds…It was the shores of the sea. Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau. Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He herd the hounds. Then, he leaped far out into the sea…”
Story Map– 50 points

17. A well-developed, highly complex Character; given many attributes
Characters– 10 points

18. The main character; the character who
Is involved in the central conflict.
Characters – 20 points

19. The Princess in “The Princess and the Tin Box” is an example of this character because she remains superficial.
Characters – 30 points

20. “The Most Dangerous Game”
General Zaroff in
“The Most Dangerous Game”
(to Rainsford)
Characters – 40 points

21. Jill goes through many personal challenges in “Pancakes”
making her this type of character.
Characters – 50 points

22. This is a literary element in which the
author uses words to create pictures
in the mind of the reader.
Hodge Podge– 10 points

23. In this point of view, we as readers
know the thoughts and feelings of only
one character.
Hodge Podge – 20 points

24. The narrator in “The Scarlet Ibis”
is speaking from this point of view because he is a character in the story.
Hodge Podge– 30 points

25. Suspense is added to the story when the reader
knows something the characters do not know.
Hodge Podge– 40 points

26. What kind of conflict is Rainsford in here?
“…and doggedly he swam in that direction,
swimming with slow, deliberate strokes,
conserving his strength. For a seemingly
endless time he fought the sea. He began to
count his strokes; he could possibly do a
hundred more…”
What kind of conflict is Rainsford in here?
Hodge Podge– 50 points