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Jeopardy

Test your knowledge of literature with this exciting Jeopardy game! Choose from categories like Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and specific works like "Charles" and "The Ransom of Red Chief" or "The Lady or the Tiger?". Answer questions about different forms of fiction, literary devices, and famous literary works. Play now and challenge yourself to become a literary master!

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Jeopardy

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Charles and Ransom of Red Chief The Lady or the Tiger? Nonfiction Stories 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. The problem or struggle between two opposing forces

  5. Conflict

  6. Name two forms of fiction.

  7. Short Stories and Novels

  8. What is a long work of literature that involves a complicated plot?

  9. Novel

  10. The sequence of events in a story is called the:

  11. Plot

  12. Name the five stages of plot.

  13. Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution

  14. What is figurative language?

  15. Anything written or spoken that is not meant to be taken literally.

  16. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

  17. A smile compares two things using “like” or “as.” A metaphor compares two things without using “like” or “as”.

  18. What is alliteration?

  19. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

  20. What is personification?

  21. Personification is when a writer describes something that is not human as if it were.

  22. What is hyperbole?

  23. Exxageration

  24. What is a biography?

  25. The story of someone’s life as told by someone else.

  26. What is an autobiography?

  27. The story of someone’s life written by that person.

  28. What is a memoir?

  29. A memoir is an autobiography that focuses on one period of a person’s life.

  30. This is the main point of an essay.

  31. What is a THESIS?

  32. The writer’s attitude towards a subject

  33. Tone

  34. Johnny’s kidnappers pay Johnny’s father to take him back. Which literary device does this example demonstrate?

  35. Irony

  36. How much did Johnny’s kidnappers ask for in ransom?

  37. $1,500

  38. Why does Bill refuse to sleep around Johnny?

  39. Johnny tried to scalp him

  40. How much did the kidnappers pay Johnny’s father?

  41. $250

  42. Why did Bill say his favorite Biblical character was King Herod?

  43. King Herod ordered the execution of all boys in Bethlehem.

  44. What does the king use the arena for in The Lady or the Tiger?.

  45. To decide the innocence or guilt of the accused

  46. What was the young man’s crime?

  47. He loved the princess, who was above his “station” in life.

  48. Name two reasons the princess may have led the young man to the tiger.

  49. She hated the young lady behind the door. • She was barbaric. • If she could not have him, no one could. • She was “imperious” and used to getting her way.

  50. Why did the princess hate the lady behind the door?

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