This document contains the questions and answers to a game of Jeopardy. The game is divided into 5 categories: Figurative Language, Literary Terms, Sound Devices, Nonfiction, and Potpourri. Each category contains 5 questions ranging from $100 to $500. The questions test knowledge of literary and language concepts such as imagery, symbolism, personification, metaphor, hyperbole, and others.

1. Jeopardy
Figurative
Language Lit Terms Sound Devices Nonfiction Potpourri
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Final Jeopardy

2. $100 Question from H1
Language that
appeals to the
senses; allows the
reader to
experience what the
author
is describing

3. $100 Answer from H1
Imagery

4. $200 Question from H1
Something that stands for
something else

5. $200 Answer from H1
Symbol

6. $300 Question from H1
A figure of speech giving human
characteristics to an animal, thing,
idea, or other inanimate object

7. $300 Answer from H1
Personification

8. $400 Question from H1
An implied comparison between
two unrelated things

9. $400 Answer from H1
Metaphor

10. $500 Question from H1
An extravagant or excessive
exaggeration

11. $500 Answer from H1
Hyperbole

12. $100 Question from H2
Introduces characters, establish
the setting, and reveal
the problem or conflict

13. $100 Answer from H2
Exposition

14. $200 Question from H2
Peak or turning point of the
action

15. $200 Answer from H2
Climax

16. $300 Question from H2
Internal and/or external problem in
story
Examples:
Man vs. man
Man vs. nature
Man vs. himself

17. $300 Answer from H2
Conflict

18. $400 Question from H2
The feeling or emotion created by the
words and setting in the story

19. $400 Answer from H2
Mood

20. A situation in which the
audience knows
something about
present or future
circumstances that the
character does not
know

21. $500 Answer from H2
Dramatic Irony

22. $100 Question from H3
Repetition of initial consonant
sounds in neighboring words;
“Maggie, milly, molly and may”

23. $100 Answer from H3
Alliteration

24. $200 Question from H3
Words imitates the sounds
associated with it

25. $200 Answer from H3
Onomatopoeia

26. $300 Question from H3
Repetition of final or middle
consonant sounds in neighboring
Words; “cat / without”

27. $300 Answer from H3
Consonance

28. $400 Question from H3
Repetition of vowel sounds in
neighboring words with different
final consonant sounds; “move; stool”

29. $400 Answer from H3
Assonance

30. $500 Question from H3
A regular pattern of rhyming words
in a poem indicated by using the
different letters of the alphabet

31. $500 Answer from H3
Rhyme Scheme

32. $100 Question from H4
Form of nonfiction in which a
writer tells his or her own life story

33. $100 Answer from H4
Autobiography

34. $200 Question from H4
Essay or writing that tries to convince
readers to do something or to accept
the writer’s point of view

35. $200 Answer from H4
Persuasive

36. $300 Question from H4
Essay or writing that gives
information, discusses ideas, or
explains a process

37. $300 Answer from H4
Expository Writing

38. $400 Question from H4
The dictionary meaning of a word

39. $400 Answer from H4
Denotation

40. $500 Question from H4
The set of ideas associated with
a word in addition to its dictionary
meaning

41. $500 Answer from H4
Connotation

42. $100 Question from H5
The act of creating and developing a
character; indirect and direct

43. $100 Answer from H5
Characterization

44. $200 Question from H5
The perspective from which the
story is told

45. $200 Answer from H5
Point of View

46. $300 Question from H5
The central idea of a text; universal
statement about life and/or society
that can be discerned from the
reading of a text

47. $300 Answer from H5
Theme

48. $400 Question from H5
The word choices a writer makes
including the vocabulary used,
the appropriateness of the words,
and the vividness of the language

49. $400 Answer from H5
Diction

50. $500 Question from H5
A reference to a well-known
person, place, event, literary
work or work of art

51. $500 Answer from H5
Allusion

52. Final Jeopardy
A dramatic monologue where a character
reveals his or her inner feelings; a way for
the audience to overhear the character’s
thoughts

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
Soliloquy