Jeopardy questions

Question 1

The point in the story arc where the main conflict is introduced and the tension begins to build.

Answer 1

What is the rising action.

Question 2

The time and place where the events of a story take place.

Answer 2

What is the setting

Question 3

The angle or perspective from which a story is told.

Answer 3

What is the point-of-view

Question 4

A main idea or message that is presented by the author in various ways throughout a narrative.

Answer 4

What is theme

Question 5

The point in the story arch where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.

Answer 5

What is the falling action

Question 6

Money Mark was born rich. He never had to work a day in his life and he got everything handed to him on a silver platter. When he was six, Money Mark wanted to go to a basketball game. His father paid the starting five of the Bulls and Celtics to play a private game of Nerf-ball in Money Mark’s bedroom. When Money Mark turned thirteen, he wanted to start a band. His father hired the Rolling Stones to play with him every Saturday at the family’s private concert hall, though his family was never there. By the time he was twenty-one, Money Mark was bored with life. He was surrounded by a bunch of possessions that he didn’t appreciate and Money Mark could find nothing new or exciting in his life. Despite his vast wealth, Money Mark was never satisfied. What is the theme?

Answer 6

Money can’t buy happiness

Question 7

Which of the following is a theme example.
A.)You will never make a shot that you don’t take.
B.) risking
C.) cleaning is good

Answer 7

You will never make a shot that you don’t take

Question 8

There can only be one theme or universal theme in a story. True or False.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

The Monkey and the Cookies A monkey put his hand into the jar of cookies. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the cookie jar. Unwilling to lose the cookies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and cried bitterly. What is the theme?
A Eating cookies can be dangerous.
B If you are greedy, you might get nothing.
C Don’t put your hand in a jar.

Answer 9

b) If you re greedy, you might get nothing

Question 10

True or False - A universal theme refers to a theme of any story, person, or culture.

Answer 10

true

Question 11

A character who is the main character of the story. The conflict happens to them.

Answer 11

The protagonist

Question 12

An art teacher is imaginative and creative with her students all day at school, only to go home and continue to create beautiful masterpieces from her imagination all night. Round or flat? Why?

Answer 12

Flat because we only see one side of her - the creative side

Question 13

If a character is constantly reading and trying to answer life’s big questions, what is a trait she might possess?

Answer 13

curious, intelligent, bibliophile, eager, excited (answers may vary- but should be similar to those listed)

Question 14

The character who causes the conflict.

Answer 14

The antagonist

Question 15

What point of view is this passage? HOW DO YOU KNOW? Marilla’s lips twitched understandingly. She had expected Mrs. Rachel to say this; she had known that the sight of Matthew jaunting off so unaccountably would be too much for her neighbor’s curiosity. If Marilla had said that Matthew had gone to Bright River to meet a kangaroo from Australia Mrs. Rachel could not have been more astonished.

Answer 15

Third person point of view

Question 16

Comparing two objects using like or as.

Answer 16

Simile

Question 17

The car lights blinked in the distance.

Answer 17

Personification

Question 18

Words that imitate the sounds they make.

Answer 18

Onomatopoeia

Question 19

The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words that are close together

Answer 19

Alliteration

Question 20

The term for all of the devices a writer uses to give the reader a better description and understanding of what is happening in the story or poem.

Answer 20

Figurative Language or Literary Devices

Question 21

Which is the meaning of the word illegibly in this sentence:
After he broke his hand, Carl went from writing clearly to writing illegibly.
A) In an unreadable way
B) With precision
C) With confusion
D) In a predictable way

Answer 21

A

Question 22

What is the appositive phrase in this sentence?
My father prepared his favorite entree, chicken cacciatore, for supper at the fireplace.
A) My father
B) His favorite entree
C) Chicken cacciatore
D) At the firehouse

Answer 22

C

Question 23

Which group of words from this sentence is a prepositional phrase?
Jackson traveled with several relatives last summer.
A) Jackson traveled
B) With several relatives
C) Last summer
D) Relatives last

Answer 23

b

Question 24

Which group of words from this sentence is a prepositional phrase?
Fans threw hundreds of hats onto the ice when the player scored again.
A) Fans threw
B) Of hats
C) When the player
D) Scored again

Answer 24

B) Of hats

Question 25

When they finally breached the walls of Massada in A.D. 73. The Romans were amazed at what they found. Identify the error in the sentence/passage.

Answer 25

Sentence fragment.

Question 26

Nearly fifty years later Lewis Keller bought the Oakhurst property, and he was a golf lover. Rewrite this sentence to correct faulty structure and coordination.

Answer 26

Nearly fifty years later, Lewis Keller, a golf lover, bought the Oakhurst property.

Question 27

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Answer 27

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Question 28

Taylor had the ______ grades in school. Complete this sentence using the superlative form of the word.

Answer 28

best

Question 29

Original sources of information; anything from first hand documents, such as poems, diaries, court records, documents, and interviews to research results generated by experiments.

Answer 29

Primary sources