Elements of Fiction Jeopardy
Rules
• Four teams
– Three groups of four
– One group of three
• You must “buzz in” for every question…AFTER it is
read
• You have 30 seconds to answer the question
– If answered correctly your team will get the point
value
– If answered incorrectly your team will lose the
possible point value AND another team is given the
opportunity to “steal the question”
REMEMBER
• In a true Jeopardy game, you must answer the
question as followed:
– “Who is…”
– “What is…”
Jeopardy
Theme/Sym
bolism
Vocabulary
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Setting
Characters
Plot
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600
Conflict
Final Jeopardy
200
• The definition of setting
• Answer: What is “time and place of a story”
400
• The time period of Antigone
• Answer: What is “Ancient Greece”
600
• Setting can set this
• Answer: What is “atmosphere”
800
• Setting can tell readers about this
• Answer: “Who are the characters”
1000
• The setting of “Occupation: Conductorette”
• Answer: “What is San Francisco”
200
• There are this many types of character
categories
• Answer: “What is 6”
400
• Characters are defined as this
• Answer: “What is people or animals in a
literary work”
600
• In Antigone, Creon was this type of character
• Answer: “What is the antagonist”
800
• Ismene was this kind of character
• Answer: “What is dynamic”
1000
• The difference between a dynamic character
and static character is this
• Answer: “What is, dynamic character changes
but a static character remains the same”
200
• A series or sequence of events in the story
• Answer: “What is plot”
400
• The fourth step of the “triangle”
• Answer: “What is falling action”
600
• The resolution is this
• Answer: “What is the conclusion, when the
problem is solved”
800
• The triangle looks like this (with labels)
• Answer: “What is…
Climax
Exposition
Resolution
1000
• When a sequence is interrupted to tell a story
of the past
• Answer: “What is a flashback”
200
• A struggle between two forces
• Answer: “What is a conflict”
400
• There are this many types of conflict
• Answer: “What is four”
600
• This is the following type of conflict
Answer: “What is man versus man”
or “human versus human”
800
• The conflict a character faces internally
• Answer: “What is man versus self”
1000
• Creon faced these types of conflict
• Answer: “What are man versus man, man
versus self, and man versus society”
200
• Central message of story
• Answer: “What is theme”
400
• The symbol from the first short story we read
and what it was capable of doing
• Answer: “What is the monkey’s paw and it
was able to give 3 wishes…but you had to be
careful HOW you wished for it”
600
• The two laws expressed in Antigone
• Answer: “What are divine laws and human
laws”
800
• The theme can be both of these
• Answer: “What is directly stated or implied”
1000
• Represented their possible future and escape
to freedom/happiness in this novel
• Answer: “What is Of Mice and Men”
200
• Defined as “examined carefully”
• Answer: “What is scrutinized”
400
• An example of this
• Answer: “What is irony”
600
• Credulity can be defined as this
• Answer: “What is tendency to believe too
readily”
800
• The 5 W’s and 1 H is categorized by this
element of writing
• Answer: “What is context”
1000
• The paradox of “Like the Sun”
• Answer: “What is that Sekhar told the truth
and it cost him in the end”
FINAL JEOPARDY
• The acronym we learned about
characterization and what each letter stands
for
• Answer: “What is STEAL”
– Speech: dialogue
– Thoughts: usually italicized, inner character
– Effect on others: how they make others feel
– Action: what the characters do
– Looks: how characters appear