Jeopardy Short Story

JEOPARDY Short Story Unit

Literary Terms

Plot Line

Character

Conflict

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Literary Terms for 10 An example is this: A spot of blood, like a bird, flew across the mat and landed on her kimono.

What is a simile?

Literary Terms for 20 This is a type of irony where what is said is not what is meant.

What is Verbal Irony?

Literary Terms for 30 An example would be this: The candy tasted like sweet strawberries and bananas and melted in his mouth into a gushy sludge. What is imagery?

Literary Terms for 40 A narrator that cannot be trusted

What is unreliable narrator?

Literary Terms for 50 The type of conflict for a woman in Salem during the witch trails that is accused of being a witch.

What is character vs. society?

Plot Line for 10 The most exciting part of the story

What is climax?

Plot Line for 20 This is the part that initially grabs the reader’s attention.

What is narrative hook?

Plot Line for 30 The part of the story that gives the introductory information

What is exposition?

Plot Line for 40 Most of the story is this part of the plot line.

What is rising action?

Plot Line for 50 This would when something came out of the door in “The Lady or the Tiger.”

What is the falling action?

Character for 10 Goes against the main character

What is antagonist?

Character for 20 An example would be the teacher in “All Summer in a Day,” because we know very little about her.

What is flat?

Character for 30 Tessie, from “The Lottery,” is this type of character since she changes her mind about the lottery after she wins.

What is dynamic?

Character for 40 Tessie, Margot, the crazy narrator who kills the old man, the lieutenant, Laurie, Manny the circus owner, and the princess are all examples of this type of character What is protagonist?

Character for 50 The type of character the wife of the Lieutenant is (Reiko) along with protagonist and flat.

What is Reiko?

Conflict for 10 The definition of conflict.

What is struggle?

Conflict for 20 The type of conflict when two characters argue or fight.

What is character vs. character?

Conflict for 30 The type of conflict when a character is thinking about whether or not he or she should do something.

What is character vs. self?

Conflict for 40 The type of conflict in “The Lottery” where Tessie goes against the beliefs and values of the town.

What is character vs. society

Conflict for 50 The conflict found in the princess in, “The Lady or the Tiger.”

What is character vs. self?

Past Stories for 10 What Mrs. Lattimore did in her coffin.

What is have a baby?

Past Stories for 20 How did the crazy narrator kill the old man?

What is drop a bed on him?

Past Stories for 30 Who is Manny talking to in “Speak?”

Who is his dog?

Past Stories for 40 The location of Margot’s school.

What is Venus?

Past Stories for 50 The name of the lieutenant's wife.

What is Reiko?