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Jeopardy: Literary Elements Quiz

Test your knowledge on setting, mood, imagery, and plot in literature with this Jeopardy-style quiz game. Answer questions to earn points and challenge your understanding of key literary concepts.

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Jeopardy: Literary Elements 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. Setting/Mood Imagery Plot ? Vocab 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. What is the definition of setting?

  5. Time and place where the story takes place?

  6. What is the definition of mood?

  7. The feeling or atmosphere of a story

  8. What time period does the story take place in?

  9. The 1930s, the Great Depression

  10. What are some clues in the story about the time period?

  11. Roosevelt was president, 10 cents for the picture show, a 60-some year old woman was a child in the 1880s

  12. What are some words that would describe the mood in the story?

  13. Nostalgic, peacful, reflective, quiet

  14. “dollar bills, tightly rolled and green as May buds”

  15. Visual Imagery

  16. “Craackle! A cheery crunch, scraps of miniature thunder sound as shells collapse

  17. Auditory Imagery

  18. “A mile or more of chastising thorns, burrs and briers that catch at our clothes”

  19. Tactile Imagery

  20. “She likes her coffee chicory-flavored and strong”

  21. Taste Imagery

  22. “vanilla sweetens the air, ginger spices it, melting, nose tingling odors saturate the kitchen, suffuse the house, drift out to the world on puffs of chimney smoke”

  23. Olfactory Imagery

  24. What time of year do the events of the story take place in?

  25. Christmas time

  26. Why do Buddy and his friend get yelled at after making the fruitcakes?

  27. They had been drinking

  28. Why is this Christmas the last one Buddy spent with his friend?

  29. He was sent to military school, and she passed away a few years later.

  30. Where do Buddy and his friend go to get whiskey for the cakes?

  31. To a log cabin restaurant by the river, “Ha ha” Jones place

  32. Besides a kite, what is a present that Buddy got for Christmas?

  33. Socks, a shirt, a hand-me down sweater, a religious magazine

  34. Why are Buddy and his cousin so close?

  35. They like the same things, and like spending time together

  36. What is the definition of personification?

  37. Giving human qualities to non-human objects

  38. What aspect of the story can influence characters (for example by determining their living conditions), create the conflict by what the characters endure, or be a symbol of an important idea?

  39. The setting

  40. How many fruitcakes were Buddy and his cousin making?

  41. 31

  42. Which of the following is imagery? • moss drifts through the branches like grey mist • We are cousins, very distant ones

  43. a. moss drifts through the branches like grey mist

  44. To cut off

  45. sever

  46. goad

  47. To push someone to do something

  48. Which has a more negative connotation, spend or squander?

  49. Squander

  50. Would winning the lottery for a million dollars be prosaic? Why?

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