Short Story Jeopardy!
Lit Elements Stories Pt. 1 Stories Pt. 2
Characters Potpourri
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Literary Elements
This is a series of related
events that make up a story.
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What is plot?
$200 Literary Elements
They are the four elements of plot.
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What are exposition,
complication, climax, and
resolution?
$300 Literary Terms
When writers use this, readers use their
judgment to decide what a character is
like based the characters: speech,
appearance, thoughts, actions etc.
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Indirect characterization
$400 Literary Terms
This is demonstrated when the
narrator focuses on the thoughts
and feelings of just one character.
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What is third-person-limited point of
view?
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Surprise endings highlight this
device that occurs when
circumstances turn out to be
opposite of what we expect.
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What is situational irony?
$100 Stories Part 1
In “A Sound of Thunder,” the
time travelers must stay here.
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What is the safari path?
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William Armstrong is this
“Scarlet Ibis” character’s name.
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Who is Doodle?
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This experience pleases
Mathilde Loisel (from “The
Necklace”) more than any
other during the story.
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What is the big party?
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The king’s daughter discovers this in
“The Lady or the Tiger.”
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What is the secret of the doors?
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This character is off somewhere
traveling on his/her own in
“Helen on 86th Street?”
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Who is Vita’s father?
$100 Stories Part 2
That is why Montresor wants
revenge against Fortunato.
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What are Fortunato’s
insults?
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Della sells it in order to buy her
gift for Jim.
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What does Della do with
her hair.
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This is why Zaroff wishes to hunt
Rainsford.
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What is the challenge of tracking an
expert hunter like Rainsford.
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That is why Mathilde does not
originally want to go to the party.
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Mathilde is poor and does not
have elegant clothes or jewelry.
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It’s death symbolizes Doodle and his
fate.
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What is the Scarlet Ibis?
$100 Characters
Elena felt she knew him because
she had watched his house during
the summer.
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Who is Eugene
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This man wants to become Vita’s
mother’s boyfriend.
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Who is Old Farfel?
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This character’s unbalanced
behavior influences “The Cask of
Amontillado’s” tone.
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Who is Montresor?
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This villain buys his own island to
have privacy.
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Who is General Zaroff?
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This man is elected President of the
United States at the beginning of “A
Sound of Thunder.”
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Who is Keith?
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This refers to an author’s choice
of words in literature.
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What is diction?
$200 Potpourri
This short story takes place in
a fictional kingdom.
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What is “The Lady or the Tiger?
$300 Potpourri
This moves a story along and makes
readers care about the outcome.
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What is conflict?
$400 Potpourri
Mathilde Loisel feels that she
deserves this type of life.
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What is the beautiful, wealthy
life of the social elite.
$500 Potpourri
In this perspective the narrator knows
everything about the story and its
characters (including private
thoughts, past, and future action).
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What is third-person
omniscient.
Final Jeopardy Topic
Literary Devices
Final Jeopardy
This occurs when the audience knows
something that a character does not.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is dramatic
irony?