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Jeopardy Literary Terms Quiz

Test your knowledge of literary terms with this Jeopardy-style quiz game. Can you answer the questions correctly? Challenge yourself now!

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Jeopardy Literary Terms Quiz

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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. Vocabulary Vocabulary LITERARY TERMS Vocabulary Vocabulary 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. He wrote an allegory about the Cold War.

  5. Who is Ray Bradbury?

  6. After his first wife died, he married his cousin.

  7. Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

  8. He tried to commit suicide in 1892 and died in an insane asylum in 1893.

  9. Who is Guy de Maupassant?

  10. His mother was killed by a run-away cow.

  11. Who is Saki?

  12. He was inspired by his experiences flying planes in WWII.

  13. Who is Roald Dahl?

  14. This means: unwise.

  15. What is imprudent?

  16. This means: becoming more distant.

  17. What is receding?

  18. This means: entertaining.

  19. What is diverting?

  20. This means: overcame.

  21. What is surmounted?

  22. This means: punishment.

  23. What is retribution?

  24. The time order in which things happen.

  25. What is chronological order?

  26. This part of the plot usually contains the most tension.

  27. What is the climax?

  28. Thoughts and feelings associated with a word.

  29. What is connotation?

  30. A story-teller who knows EVERYTHING.

  31. What is an omniscient narrator?

  32. The reader knows something that a character doesn’t.

  33. What is dramatic irony?

  34. This is the spacing for a formal paper.

  35. What is double spaced?

  36. This information belongs in the upper right corner.

  37. What are your last name and page number?

  38. This is the correct order for heading information.

  39. What is name, teacher, class, date?

  40. This is the rule for quotation integration.

  41. What is QUO-PAR-PUNC?

  42. This is used to introduce a quotation.

  43. What is a signal phrase?

  44. In this story, a bird symbolizes a boy.

  45. What is “The Scarlet Ibis”?

  46. This story’s theme is to always tell the truth.

  47. What is “The Necklace”?

  48. This story uses verbal irony, saying that the king’s arena is fair.

  49. What is “The Lady, Or the Tiger?”

  50. This story has an unreliable narrator.

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