This document contains the questions and answers from a game of Literary Terms Jeopardy. It is organized into categories from A to P-S, with dollar values from $100 to $500. Each clue is a term from literary analysis and the answers define or provide examples of each term. The final question is for a soliloquy, which is a type of monologue where a character expresses thoughts intended for the audience, not other characters.

2. LITERARY TERMS JEOPARDY
A C E-F M-O P-S
Q $100 Q $100 Q$100 Q$100 Q$100
Q $200 Q $200 Q$200 Q$200 Q$200
Q $300 Q$300 Q$300 Q$300 Q$300
Q $400 Q$400 Q$400 Q$400 Q$400
Q $500 Q$500 Q$500 Q$500 Q$500

3. $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.

4. Antagonist $100 from A

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

6. $ 200 Answer from A
Alliteration

7. $300 Question from A
A reference to something or someone, often literary.
Example: “ May the force be with you.”

8. $300.00 Answer from A
Allusion

9. $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 ….

10. $400 Answer from A
Atmosphere

11. $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.

12. $500 Answer from A
Allegory

13. $100 Question from C
The 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 ________.

14. $100 Answer from C
Characterization

15. $200 Question from C
The point at which the action in a story or play
reaches its emotional peak.
Example: The most exciting part
of the story.

16. $200 Answer from c
Climax

17. $300 Question from C
To explain how things are alike.
Example: In Algebra, you can’t
_____apples to oranges or x’s to
y’s.

18. $300 Answer from C
Compare

19. $400 Question from C
The 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.

20. $400 Answer from C
Conflict

21. $500 Question from C
To explain how things are different.
Example: The opposite of compare.

22. $500 Answer from C
Contrast

23. $100 Question from E-F
The point of view of a piece of
writing in which the narrator
refers to himself as “I”
Example: Not the third but the___.

24. $100 Answer from E-F
The First Person Point of View

25. $200 Question from E-F
A long poem narrating the
adventures of a heroic figure.
Example: The Odyssey

26. $200 Answer from E-F
Epic

27. $300 Question from E-F
A story that illustrates a moral,
often using animals as the
characters.
Example: The Tortoise and the
Hare

28. $300 Answer from E-F
Fable

29. $400 Question from E-F
A 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!

30. $400 Answer from E-F
Foreshadowing

31. $500 Question from E-F
Language 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.

32. $ 500 Answer from E-F
Figurative language

33. $ 100 Question from M-O
The use of words that sound like
what they mean.
Example: Ping, Ring, Buzz

34. $100 Answer from M-O
Onomatopoeia

35. $200 Question from M-O
A comparison that does NOT use
“like” or “as”.
Example He’s a rock or I am an
island.

36. $200 Answer from M-O
Metaphor

37. $300 Question from M-O
A 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.

38. $300 Answer from M-O
Monologue

39. $400 Question from M-O
A legend that embodies the beliefs
of people and offers some
explanation for natural and social
phenomena.
Example: The Greek Gods: Zeus,
Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules….

40. $400 Answer from M-O
Myth

41. $500 Question from M-O
A phrase made up of two
seemingly opposite words.
Example : Cruel Kindness or
Dumb Smart or Jumbo Shrimp

42. $500 Answer from M-O
Oxymoron

43. $100 Question from P-S
Giving an inanimate object human
characteristics.
Example: “ The flames reached for
the child hovering in the corner.”

44. $100 Answer from P-S
Personification

45. $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.”

46. $200 Answer from P-S
Protagonist

47. $300 Question from P-S
The 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.

48. $300 Answer from P-S
Plot

49. $400 Question from P-S
A comparison that uses “like” or
“as.”
Example: “I’m as hungry as a
wolf.” “Her eyes are like the stars
in the sky.”

50. $400 Answer from P-S
Simile

51. $500 Question from P-S
A question not meant to be
answered .
Example: “Why can’t you just get
along?”

52. $ 500 Answer from P-S
Rhetorical Question

53. 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.

54. Final Jeopardy Answer
Soliloquy