Short Story Jeopardy

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

Literary Devices
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Final Jeopardy
This occurs when the audience knows something
that a character does not.
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What is dramatic irony?