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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Figurative
Language
A type of comparison that suggests
that one thing is “like” or “as” another
thing:
“It [math] is confusing like the inside
of a watch” (Soto 252).
$100 Answer Figurative
Language
What is a simile?
$200 Question from Figurative
Language
A type of comparison that suggests
that one thing is another without using
the words “like” or “as”:
“The rose bushes of shame on his face
became bouquets of love” (Soto 255).
$200 Answer from Figurative
Language
What is a metaphor?
$300 Question from Figurative
Language
An expression that features inanimate objects
doing things that only people can do:
“Six stories below the lights of the city blinked
and the sounds of cars mingled with the curses
and the laughter of children in the street”
(Thomas 285).
$300 Answer from Figurative
Language
What is personification?
$400 Question from Figurative
Language
An expression that cannot be understood by
simply looking at the dictionary definition of
words. Instead one must consider the context
and culture:
“He watched her on the sly . . . he stood up and
hurried to the door, where he managed to catch
her eye (Soto 252).
$400 Answer from Figurative
Language
What is an idiom?
$500 Question from Figurative
Language
An idiom that uses excessive
exaggeration to emphasize a point:
“Antonio knew the dynamite that was
stored in his Amigo Brother’s fists”
(Thomas 289).
$500 Answer from Figurative
Language
What is hyperbole?
$100 Question from Plot
The part of a story’s plot that presents the setting
(time and place) and the introduction to the major
characters:
“Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas were both seventeen
years old, . . . were so together in friendship that
they felt them themselves to be brothers . . . growing
up on the lower east side of Manhattan (Thomas
283).
$100 Answer from Plot
What is the exposition?
$200 Question from Plot
The part of a story’s plot that features the key
conflicts:
“Now, after a series of elimination bouts, they
had been informed that they were to meet each
other in the division finals (Thomas 283
&284).
$200 Answer from Plot
What is the rising action?
$300 Question from Plot
The key turning point or points of a story’s
plot:
For example, in The Hunger Games, the part
when Katniss volunteers to take her sister’s
place; also, whenever Katniss and Peeta decide
to eat the poisonous berries (Collins 184 &
372).
$300 Answer from Plot
What is the climax?
$400 Question from Plot
The reaction to the climax; the action that
follows the turning point of the story; the
action that occurs as the result of the climax:
For example, in The Hunger Games, because
Katniss volunteers for her sister, she has to
fight for her life in The Hunger Games
(Collins 178 – 372).
$400 Answer from Plot
What is the falling action?
$500 Question from Plot
Usually the ending of a story. the solution to the
major conflicts (problems) within a story; note:
some problems never have solutions.
For example, throughout The Twilight Saga, a major conflict
for Edward is whether he should turn Bella into a vampire or
not. The ironic solution to this problem occurs in Breaking
Dawn, when Edward transforms Bella into an “undead” in
order to save her life (455-461).
$500 Answer from Plot
What is the resolution?
$100 Question from Genres
A type or category of literature, music, or art:
For example, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama,
mythology, etc.
$100 Answer from Genres
What is a genre?
$200 Question from Genres
A category of literature that falls under one
of the major literary genres:
Under fiction, for example, one would find
fantasy, legends, fables, folk tales, ferry tales,
mysteries, science fiction, etc.
$200 Answer from Genres
What is a subgenre?
$300 Question from Genres
The subgenre of fiction that features events
from a writer’s imagination that are typical of
real life.
For example, the books Hatchet, Walk Two
Moons, and The Bluford High series would all
fit into this subgenre.
$300 Answer from Genres
What is realistic fiction?
$400 Question from Genres
The subgenre of literature that presents stories
of real events. Such stories usually feature the
same plot elements that occur in traditional
fiction.
An example would be the short story
“Exploring the Titanic” by Robert Ballard.
$400 Answer from Genres
What is narrative nonfiction?
$500 Question from Genres
The major literary genre that is frequently
lyrical, euphonic (pleasing to the ears), and
often features a rhythm:
An example would be The Raven by Edgar
Allan Poe.
$500 Answer from Genres
What is poetry?
$100 Question from Nouns
Nouns that do not name specific people,
places, things, or ideas; these types of nouns
should not begin with capital letters:
puppy, student, teacher, mother, father.
$100 Answer from Nouns
What are common nouns?
$200 Question from Nouns
Nouns that name specific people, places,
things, or ideas; these types of nouns
should begin with capital letters:
Rex, Ryan, Mr. Wilson, Statue of Liberty,
Coach Ford.
$200 Answer from Nouns
What are proper nouns?
$300 Question from Nouns
Nouns, which even in their singular forms,
name groups of people, places, things, or
ideas:
team, family, type, category, herd, flock.
$300 Answer from Nouns
What collective nouns?
$400 Question from Nouns
The necessary corrections for the following
sentence:
Hey dad, will you help me with my pushups
so that coach Miller doesn’t keep running me
all practice?
$400 Answer from Nouns
What is the fact that “dad” and
“coach” should be capitalized?
*Bonus $400 if the team can explain
its reasoning
$500 Question from Nouns
The necessary correction in the following
sentence:
All of my family are going on this vacation.
$500 Answer from Nouns
What is the fact that “are” should be
“is”?
*Bonus $500 for the team that can
explain its reasoning.
Final Jeopardy
In Gary Soto’s short story “Seventh Grade,”
why did Mr. Bueller decide not to embarrass
Victor in front of Teresa?
Be sure to answer in the form of a paragraph
that features complete sentences and concrete
details (textual evidence) as support for your
answer.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is (type the vocabulary word
here)?