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$100 DOLLAR QUESTION FROM A

A major character who opposes the main character in a story or play.

Example: The “bad guy” that we are against.

Antagonist $100 from A

The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.Example: “ Peter Piper picked a pec of pickled peppers.”

$ 200 Answer from A

Alliteration

$300 Question from A

A reference to something or someone, often literary. Example: “ May the force be with you.”

$300.00 Answer from A

Allusion

$400 Question from A

The overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood.

Example: In Science class you might be talking about layers of gases in the earth’s ….

$400 Answer from A

Atmosphere

$500 Question from A

A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or ideas. Example: In westerns, the sheriff represents good, and the outlaw represents evil.

$500 Answer from A

Allegory

$100 Question from CThe means by which an author describes the appearance and personality of a person in a story or play.Example: The way an author describes the main________ is ________.

$100 Answer from C

Characterization

$200 Question from CThe point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.

Example: The most exciting part of the story.

$200 Answer from c

Climax

$300 Question from CTo explain how things are alike.Example: In Algebra, you can’t _____apples to oranges or x’s to y’s.

$300 Answer from C

Compare

$400 Question from CThe elements that create a plot. This can be internal or external.

Example: This can be a battle or a ____Inside a person or a _____ of a man against nature.

$400 Answer from C

Conflict

$500 Question from CTo explain how things are different.Example: The opposite of compare.

$500 Answer from C

Contrast

$100 Question from E-FThe point of view of a piece of writing in which the narrator refers to himself as “I”Example: Not the third but the___.

$100 Answer from E-F

The First Person Point of View

$200 Question from E-FA long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure.Example: The Odyssey

$200 Answer from E-F

Epic

$300 Question from E-FA story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters.Example: The Tortoise and the Hare

$300 Answer from E-F

Fable

$400 Question from E-FA technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.Example: What usually happens after you hear the music from JAWS!

$400 Answer from E-F

Foreshadowing

$500 Question from E-FLanguage that does not mean exactly what it says.Example: I am so mad steam is coming out of my ears!!! If it can’t happen then it usually is a _____ of speech.

$ 500 Answer from E-F Figurative language

$ 100 Question from M-OThe use of words that sound like what they mean.Example: Ping, Ring, Buzz

$100 Answer from M-O

Onomatopoeia

$200 Question from M-O

A comparison that does NOT use“like” or “as”.Example He’s a rock or I am an island.

$200 Answer from M-O

Metaphor

$300 Question from M-OA long speech by one character in a play or story ( that everyone is supposed to hear).Example: Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman do this on the Late Shows.

$300 Answer from M-O

Monologue

$400 Question from M-OA legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena.Example: The Greek Gods: Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules….

$400 Answer from M-O Myth

$500 Question from M-O

A phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words.Example : Cruel Kindness or Dumb Smart or Jumbo Shrimp

$500 Answer from M-O

Oxymoron

$100 Question from P-SGiving an inanimate object human characteristics.Example: “ The flames reached for the child hovering in the corner.”

$100 Answer from P-S

Personification

$200 Question from P-S

The main character of a novel, play, or story.Example: The “good guy” or think about another meaning of “for.”

$200 Answer from P-S Protagonist

$300 Question from P-SThe action of the story that summarizes the plan of the main story.Example: The basic ideas of a story in the order that they happened.

$300 Answer from P-S

Plot

$400 Question from P-SA comparison that uses “like” or “as.”Example: “I’m as hungry as a wolf.” “Her eyes are like the stars in the sky.”

$400 Answer from P-S

Simile

$500 Question from P-S

A question not meant to be answered .Example: “Why can’t you just get along?”

$ 500 Answer from P-S

Rhetorical Question

Final Jeopardy

A monologue in which a character expresses his or her thoughts to the audience and does not intend the other characters to hear them.

Final Jeopardy Answer

Soliloquy