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

Setting Characters Plot Conflict Theme/Symbolism Vocabulary

Final Jeopardy

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• 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…

Exposition Resolution

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g Acti

on

Falling Action

Climax

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