Westing Game
A Year Down Yonder
Poetry & Bible
Short Stories
Literary Devices
100

This is how many heirs were playing the Westing Game 

16

100

This is WHEN the story happens.

What is the 1930's/Great Depression?
100

This is the 7th Commandment 

What is "Be True to Your Husband or Wife" or "Don't Commit Adultery"? 

100

In "The Gift of the Magi", this is what Della got her husband for a gift.


What is a pocket watch chain?
100

This is when or where the story takes place.

What is setting?

200

This is the author of The Westing Game

Who is Ellen Raskin?
200

This is the name of Mary Alice's cat? 

Who is Bootsie?

200

This is the perishable food that God rained down from heaven for the Israelites. 

What is Manna?

200

This is the author of The Gift of Magi.

Who is O. Henry?

200

This is when the author gives clues that hint as to things that will happen with the plot.


What is foreshadowing?

300

This is what the JJ stands for in JJ Ford.

What is Josie-Jo? 

300

This is the author of A Year Down Yonder

Who is Richard Peck?

300

This is the first plague that the Israelites were protected from.

What is 

300

This is the amount of money that Della had left to buy  gift. 

What is $1.87? 

300

This is what occurs when two words are close together that begin with the same consonant sound. 

What is alliteration?

400

This is Turtle's real name. 

What is Tabitha Ruth?

400

This is the girl/Family that was bullying Mary Alice.

Who is the Mildred/ the Burdicks?

400

This is the name of the poem that we all wrote in class. 

What is "I Am From?"
400

This is the author of the Interlopers.

Who is Saki?

400

This is hinting at or making an indirect reference to a well-known person, event, or other piece of literature to add extra meaning. 



What is an allusion?

500

These are the 4 versions of Sam Westing that we meet in the story

Who is Sam Westing, Barney Northup, Sandy McSouthers, Julian Eastman?

500

This is where Royce McNabb is going off to college.

What is University of Illinois?

500

This is the technique of writing commentary, thoughts, and questions within the body of a poem as you read. 

What is annotation/ annotating? 

500

In The Interlopers, these are the names of the two men who are having a feud. 

Who is Ulrich von Gradwitz & Georg Znaeym?

500

This is a literary device in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order.  A-B-C- C-B-A

What is a chiasmus? 

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