Jeopardy
General
Terms!
What makes a
good story?
Split
Mothers
personality
are great
Mothers are
Great!
IRain
feel Go
a
Away!
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question S1
What is the literary term for making a story
relevant at any time and any place?
$100 Answer from S1
universality
$200 Question from S1
What is the word that
means a story that teaches a
lesson?
$200 Answer from S1
Didactic
$300 Question from S1
What is the term used for something
Which stands for something else.
$300 Answer from S1
A symbol
$400 Question from S1
Who is the father of the short story?
$400 Answer from S1
Edgar Allan Poe
$500 Question from S1
Name the theory that Edgar Allan Poe
gave us and list all its parts.
$500 Answer from S1
The single effect theory
Characters, Theme, Plot
$100 Question from S2
What is an implied
contradiction?
$100 Answer from S2
paradox
$200 Question from S2
What is an example of irony
in “The Storyteller”.
$200 Answer from S2
1. Bertha is a good girl and she dies
because her medals of goodness
alert the wolf of her position.
$300 Question from S2
What is the literary term for
a “penname”?
$300 Answer from S2
pseudonym
$400 Question from S2
How many stories have a good
little girl in it?
$400 Answer from S2
Two stories have a good little girl in it.
$500 Question from S2
What is a good story according to:
1. The bachelor
2. The aunt
3. Saki
$500 Answer from S2
Bachelor- stories should be entertaining
Aunt- stories should teach a lesson
Saki- agrees with bachelor
$100 Question from S3
What is the climax of the story “Charles”?
$100 Answer from S3
When the reader finds out that there is no
Charles in kindergarten.
$200 Question from S3
How was the teacher able to
win Laurie over?
$200 Answer from S3
The teacher makes Charles her helper
$300 Question from S3
From what point of view is the story
told?
$300 Answer from S3
First person point of view and the
narrator is Laurie’s mother.
$400 Question from S3
Who comes to kindergarten as
a guest for the day?
$400 Answer for S3
A man comes to do exercises with the
children in gym class.
$500 Question from S3
What is one foreshadowing that allowed
the reader to determine that Laurie and
Charles were one in the same person?
$500 Answer from S3
1. Laurie came home
late after school.
2. Laurie likes to play
tricks on his father.
$100 Question from S4
What is the setting time and place
for the story?
$100 Answer from S4
The story takes place in October in
the Carolina Mountains.
$200 Question from S4
What are two gifts that Jerry “supposedly”
received from his mother?
$200 Answer from S4
Jerry said he received:
1. Skates
2. Gloves
3. Suit
$300 Question from S4
Why is the setting important to
the plot of the story?
$300 Answer from S4
It is relevant that the setting is in
the fall because the narrator
needs wood chopped for a fire.
$400 Question from S4
What is the narrator’s first impression of Jerry?
$400 Answer from S4
The narrator thought Jerry was
undersized and somewhat small
to chop wood.
$500 Question from S4
What is the definition of integrity
according to the narrator?
$500 Answer from S4
Integrity according to the
narrator was defined has
courage, bravery, and honesty
but more than all three.
$100 Question from S5
Give the name of the new family in the
neighborhood and give one odd characteristic
of the family.
$100 Answer from S5
The Sakkaro family
Mrs. Sakkaro always looks to the sky
$200 Question from S5
Where does the Wright family take the
Sakkaro family?
$200 Answer from S5
They go to Murphy’s Park
$300 Question from S5
What do the Sakkaro family eat
at the park?
$300 Answer from S5
They only eat cotton candy
$400 Question from S5
Give an example of foreshadowing
from the story.
$400 Answer from S5
1.Mrs. Sakkaro is very
careful when she pours the
water.
2. Mrs. Sakkaro always
looks to the sky.
$500 Question from S5
What is the name of the instrument
that the Sakkaro family brought on their
trip to the park and what does it do?
$500 Answer from S5
Aneroid barometer
It is used to measure water pressure.
Final Jeopardy
Who are the authors and name
the stories they wrote?
Final Jeopardy Answer
Shirley Jackson – Charles
Saki- The Storyteller
Isaac Asimov – Rain, Rain Go Away
Marjorie Rawlings – Mother in Mannville