Short Story Jeopardy Lit Elements Sniper Thank You

Short Story Jeopardy! Lit Elements Sniper Thank You, M’am Interlopers Poison $100 $100 $200 $200 $300 $300 $400 $400 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Literary Elements This is a series of related events that make up a story.

$100 Literary Elements What is plot?

$200 Literary Elements They are the five elements of plot.

$200 Literary Elements What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

$300 Literary Terms The author’s message or lesson learned

$300 Literary Terms What is theme?

$400 Literary Terms In this perspective the narrator knows everything about the story and its characters (including private thoughts, past, and future action).

$400 Literary Terms What is third person omniscient point of view?

$500 Literary Terms The reader is led to believe one ending will occur, but the opposite happens; the sudden twist.

$500 Literary Terms What is situational irony?

$100 Sniper The protagonist of the story

$100 Sniper Who is the Republican sniper?

$200 Sniper The setting, including city and country.

$200 Sniper What is Dublin, Ireland?

$300 Sniper War tears families apart.

$300 Sniper What is theme?

$400 Sniper The sniper curses himself and curses the war. Throwing his gun down, he almost shoots himself and then laughs. Name the conflict.

$400 Sniper What is internal conflict or man vs. himself?

$500 Sniper This ironic situation of this story.

$500 Sniper What is his brother is his enemy?

$100 Thank You, M’am The two main characters meet under these circumstances.

$100 Thank You, M’am What is Roger stealing Ms. Jones’ purse.

$200 Thank You, M’am The setting of the story.

$200 Thank You, M’am What is Harlem, NY?

$300 Thank You, M’am One random act of kindness can change a person’s life.

$300 Thank You, M’am What is theme?

$400 Thank You, M’am The full name of the kind woman.

$400 Thank You, M’am What is Luella Bates Washington Jones?

$500 Thank You, M’am The turning point or climax of the story.

$500 Thank You, M’am What is Roger offers to go to the store for Ms. Jones?

$100 Interlopers The reason for Ulrich’s and Georg’s hatred.

$100 Interlopers What is a family feud?

$200 Interlopers This character introduced in the exposition, in quest of human enemy.

$200 Interlopers Who is Ulrich Von Gradwitz?

$300 Interlopers The conflicts of man vs. nature.

$300 Interlopers What is the tree falling on the men and the wolves eating the men?

$400 Interlopers It is implied that the men are eaten by wolves in this part of the plot structure.

$400 Interlopers What is the resolution?

$500 Interlopers Name the situational irony.

$500 Interlopers What is the sudden twist when we think they will be saved, the wolves come?

$100 Poison The country of this story’s setting.

$100 Poison What is India?

$200 Poison Name the creature in Harry’s bed.

$200 Poison What is a krait?

$300 Poison The foreshadowing of Harry’s harsh words.

$300 Poison What is his mouth twitching?

$400 Poison Name three conflicts: Man vs. man Man vs. nature Man vs. himself

$400 Poison What is the argument between Harry and the doctor, the poisonous snake in Harry’s bed, and Harry’s internal struggle with racism.

$500 Poison The true poison the title refers to.

$500 Potpourri What is Harry Pope’s racist slurs?

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?