8 th Grade Jeopardy

1. 8th Grade Jeopardy Compliments of the James Madison Center, JMU

2. A person in a story, a play, or other literary work. May also be an animal, a thing, or a natural force such as a flood or blizzard.

3. Character

4. The ways in which a writer reveals the personality of a character. Writers reveal characters in two different ways: direct characterization and indirect characterization

5. Characterization

6. A method in which the writer tells readers directly what a character is like. Example: “Teddy was the smartest person I ever knew.”

7. Direct Characterization

8. A method in which the writer shows what a character is like and lets readers draw their own conclusions. There are five basic ways that a writer can show characterization indirectly: • Describing the character’s appearance • Showing the character in action • Allowing us to hear the character’s words • Revealing the character’s thoughts and feelings • Showing how others react to the character

9. Indirect Characterization

10. The reasons a character behaves in a certain way. A character’s motives may arise from feelings, experiences, or others’ actions

11. Motivation

12. What happens in a story, novel, play, or narrative poem. It is the chain of related events that makes up a story

13. Plot

14. A struggle between characters or between opposing forces. An external conflict takes place between two characters, between a character and a group, or between a character and something else—such as a monster or a sandstorm. An internal conflict takes place within a character’s mind or heart. A story may have more than one

15. Conflict

16. Hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in a story. Helps to build suspense.

17. Foreshadowing

18. The part of the story in which remaining questions are answered and loose ends of the plot are tied up. The resolution usually comes at the end of the story.

19. Resolution

20. The most exciting or suspenseful part of a story. Something happens that reveals how the conflict will turn out.

21. Climax

22. The main reason he or she has for writing. The three basic purposes are to inform, to persuade, and to entertain.

23. Author’s Purpose

24. Professor Howard Gardner believes that people are smart in different ways. In his studies, he found many different kinds of intelligence. For example, some people have interpersonal intelligence. This means that they work well with others. They are also good at sensing other people’s feelings. Counselors and teachers have this kind of intelligence.

25. The author wrote this mostly to inform the reader that people can be smart in many different ways.

26. The writer’s most important point. What the paragraph mostly about

27. Main Idea

28. In school, kids used to call Michael Jordan “baldhead” because of his short hair. They would rub his head and call him names. Although he loved basketball, he had to work hard on his skills. His brother often won the games they played in their backyard basketball court. In the tenth grade, Jordan tried out for varsity basketball but didn’t make the cut. This beginning was definitely not an indication of things to come.

29. Main Idea: Michael Jordan struggled early in life and didn’t start out being one of the best players.

30. an educated guess, about something the writer doesn’t say or explain.

31. Making Inferences

32. information that is spread for a purpose of promoting some cause.

33. Propaganda

34. idea that everyone is doing this, or everyone supports this person/cause, so should you.

35. BANDWAGON

36. the celebrity endorsement of a philosophy, movement or candidate. In advertising, for example, athletes are often paid millions of dollars to promote sports shoes, equipment and fast food.

37. TESTIMONIAL

38. grassroots and all-American. the candidate or cause is identified with common people from everyday walks of life.

39. PLAIN FOLKS

40. the candidate/speaker attempts to persuade us through the indirect use of something we respect, such as a patriotic or religious image, to promote his/her ideas

41. TRANSFER

42. unconditional authorityOrigin: French. Direct Translation: White card

43. carte blanch

44. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time. • disagreeable familiarity or samenessOrigin: French. • Direct Translation: to have seen before

45. déja vu

46. 1. the theory or system of government that upholds the autonomous character of the economic order, believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs.2. the practice or doctrine of noninterference in the affairs of others,esp. with reference to individual conduct or freedom of action.Origin: French. Direct Translation: Allow to act

47. laissez-faire

48. an accomplished fact; a thing already done:The enemy's defeat was a fait accompli long before the formal surrender.Origin: French. Direct Translation: Already done

49. fait acompli

50. 1. an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius:Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.2. a particularly adroit maneuver or technique in handling a difficult situation:The way the president got his bill through the Senate was a tour de force.3. a feat requiring unusual strength, skill, or ingenuity.Origin: French. Direct Translation: Tower of force