Jeopardy
Semester 1
Honors English Review
Semester 1 Review
Themes
Research
Terms
Literary
Terms
Novels
Short
Stories
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Theme 100
True/False: The theme of The Great
Gatsby could be that money cannot buy
love.
What is True?
Themes 200
True/False: A theme of 1984 could be that
you can’t beat the system.
What is True?
Theme 300
Justify the theme of independence is key
to a healthy life in “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
What is (answers may vary)?
Theme 400
Identify and justify a theme from “A Rose
for Emily.”
What is (answers may vary)?
Theme 500
You can’t change your fate could be a
theme of this story.
What is Oedipus the King?
Research Terms 100
Definition of paraphrase.
What is to reword information in another
form or by using different words while
retaining the meaning?
Research Terms 200
Definition of summarize.
What is to condense or restate briefly?
Research Terms 300
When you put the author’s name or article
title within your paper, it is called this.
What is an in-text citation?
Research Terms 400
This is the article title in the citation below.
Buchholz, K. “Putting the Win in Twins.”
Baseball Fanatics. 26 April 2010. ProQuest.
Online. 7 May 2010.
What is “Putting the Win in Twins”
Research Terms 500
Please paraphrase (and cite properly)
this quotation by Einstein.
What is (answers
may vary)?
Possible Example:
Our world will cease
to have original
thoughts when technology overtakes
face-to-face communication (Einstein).
Literary Terms 100
Bittersweet chocolate is an example of
what literary term?
What is oxymoron?
Literary Terms 200
Give an example of a nuance and explain.
Answers may vary.
Literary Terms 300
Hints a writer uses to reveal things that
may happen later in the story is called…
What is foreshadowing?
Bonus: Give an example from one of the
short stories read in class.
Literary Terms 400
This is the difference between denotation
and connotation and give an example
using snow.
What is
– Denotation is the dictionary definition.
– Connotation is the assumed meaning (the
feeling that is associated with it).
Literary Terms 500
Name the four different types of Point of View and
what they are.
First person – the narrator is part of the story,
using I and we
Second person – the narrator tells the story
directly to the reader, using you
Third person limited – narrator only knows what
ONE character thinks
Third person omniscient – narrator is all-knowing
Novels 100
Identify what conflicts are present in 1984
and give an example for each.
– Person v. Self
– Person v. Person
– Person v. Nature
– Person v. Society
– Person v. Fate
What is all five (examples may vary)?
Novels 200
Identify at least three symbols in The
Great Gatsby and what they stood for.
What is (answers may vary)?
Novels 300
Oedipus was discarded as a baby but
saved by a servant and given to whom.
Who is the Shepherd of Corinth?
Novels 400
Orwell pulled examples from real life
experiences in order to write his novel.
Give at least two separate examples of
how he did this.
What is (answers may vary)?
Novels 500
Identify at least one universal quality in the
three novels read in class and explain.
What is (answers may vary)?
Short Stories 100
Why was Miss Emily Grierson’s funeral so
well attended?
What is because she was so independent
and removed from society that people
were curious about her and her house.
Short Stories 200
In what point of view is “The Yellow
Wallpaper” written in and what impact
does it have on the story?
What is 1st person and it makes the reader
directly experience/embody everything the
narrator does?
Short Stories 300
Analyze the events of “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Name two specific occurrences that could have
done instead to help the narrator.
Answers may vary
Short Stories 400
Identify the conflicts present in “The Gift of
the Magi” and give an example of each.
– Person v. Self
– Person v. Person
– Person v. Nature
– Person v. Society
– Person v. Fate
What is all Self, Society (examples may
vary)?
Stories 500
What is the significance of the title “A Rose for
Emily?” Please support with specific examples
from the text
Answers may vary
Grab Bag 100
Define what being a dynamic character is.
Give an example of a dynamic character
from 1984.
Dynamic – the character changes over the
course of the story
Example - Winston
Grab Bag 200
These literary elements are used in the following
sentence:
– The seniors seem to be as eager as a beaver to start their
second and final semester at Garretson High School.
What is alliteration (s), assonance (ee), and
simile?
Grab Bag 300
What is the difference between tone and mood.
Tone: The author’s attitude toward the writing
(humorous, suspenseful, formal, etc)
Mood: The atmosphere created by the author –
what it makes me feel (frightening, excited,
romantic)
Bonus: What elements does an author use to
create tone?
Grab Bag 400
Identify, define, and give an example of
the three types of irony.
What is situational, dramatic, and verbal
irony.
– Examples may vary.
Grab Bag 500
What are the essential elements of a
research paper (at least five)?
What are the introduction, body,
conclusion, thesis, and in-text citations?
– Transitions are also very beneficial!
Final Jeopardy
In 1984 and The Great Gatsby, this could
be considered the authors’ purposes for
writing the novels and why.
– Persuade
– Inform
– Entertain