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HSAP Literary Terms JEOPARDY

HSAP Literary Terms JEOPARDY. Answer $10 Did you hear that?. This line from Poe’s “The Raven” contains an example of this sound device: “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”. Question $10. What is alliteration?. Answer $20 Did you hear that?.

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HSAP Literary Terms JEOPARDY

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  1. HSAP Literary Terms JEOPARDY

  2. Answer $10Did you hear that? This line from Poe’s “The Raven” contains an example of this sound device: “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

  3. Question $10 What is alliteration?

  4. Answer $20Did you hear that? This is a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem.

  5. Question $20 What is refrain?

  6. Answer $30Did you hear that? “For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being/Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door….” Poe’s words “ever,” “yet,” and “blessed” are examples of this sound device.

  7. Question $30 What is assonance?

  8. Answer $40Did you hear that? This is the repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables, such as “seeing” and “being.”

  9. Question $40 What is rhyme?

  10. Answer $50 Did you hear that? “Snap,” “crackle,” “pop,” “whisper,” and “boom” are examples of this sound device.

  11. Question $50 What is onomatopoeia?

  12. Answer $10Who am I? I am an opponent who struggles against the hero of a story, such as Abigail Williams in THE CRUCIBLE.

  13. Question $10 Who is the antagonist?

  14. Double JEOPARDY • How much do you wish to wager?

  15. Double JEOPARDY Answer I am an individual who changes in some important way as a result of a story’s action.

  16. Double JEOPARDY Question Who is a dynamic character?

  17. Answer $30 Who am I? I am the character who tells the story, as Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY.

  18. Question $30 Who is the narrator?

  19. Answer $40 Who am I? I am the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action.

  20. Question $40 Who is the protagonist?

  21. Answer $50 Who am I? I am any individual in a story or play.

  22. Question $50 Who is a character?

  23. Answer $10What’s happening? This is a struggle between opposing forces in a story.

  24. Question $10 What is a conflict?

  25. Answer $20What’s happening? This is the term applied to the conclusion or resolution of a story—where everything is finally “unraveled.”

  26. Question $20 What is denouement?

  27. Answer $30What’s happening? This is the series of related events in a story or play.

  28. Question $30 What is plot?

  29. Answer $40What’s happening? This is the part of the plot in which the reader is given important background information on the characters, setting, and problems.

  30. Question $40 What is exposition?

  31. Answer $50What’s happening? At this point in a plot, readers experience the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest.

  32. Question $50 What is climax?

  33. Answer $10Go figure! Dickinson’s line “Fame is a bee” is an example of this figure of speech.

  34. Question $10 What is metaphor?

  35. Answer $20Go figure! In her lines “Because I could not stop for Death--/He kindly stopped for me--/” Miss Dickinson describes Death as a gentleman caller. She uses this device.

  36. Question $20 What is personification?

  37. Answer $30Go figure! Poe uses this figure of speech when he writes “Helen, thy beauty is to me/Like those Nicean barks [ships] of yore….”

  38. Question $30 What is a simile?

  39. Answer $40Go figure! Twain uses this type of exaggeration for humor when he writes in LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI: “Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways?”

  40. Question $40 What is hyperbole?

  41. Answer $50Go figure! With this figurative language, someone or something stands for itself and something else, as Hawthorne’s use of light, which represents truth.

  42. Question $50 What is symbolism/a symbol?

  43. Answer $10What’s an olio? This term applies to a writer’s attitude toward his subject, character, or reader.

  44. Question $10 What is tone?

  45. Answer $20What’s an olio? This is the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work, as the narrator’s warning in THE SCARLET LETTER to “Be true, be true, be true…!”

  46. Question $20 What is theme?

  47. Answer $30What’s an olio? This is a general discrepancy between appearances and reality, as having a minister in THE SCARLET LETTER who is both adored by his congregation and guilty of adultery and hypocrisy.

  48. Question $30 What is irony?

  49. Answer $40What’s an olio? This personal belief, attitude, or judgment prevents a person from being objective.

  50. Question $40 What is bias?

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