ELA6 Jeopardy!

Literary Terms

100

What is the term for the main character in a story?

Protagonist

200

What is the term for where and when a story takes place?

Setting

300

What is the term for the character who causes problems for the protagonist of a story?

Antagonist

400

If "genre" is a type of story, what does the term "genre trope" mean?

Something that repeatedly appears within a genre

500

What is the term for the moral or message of a story?

Theme

Drawing Terms

100

What is the name of the line that divides the sky from the land in a drawing?

Horizon Line

200

What's the drawing term for the way objects appear to feel to the touch?

Texture

300

What is the art subject in which you create pictures of the outdoors?

Landscapes

400

What is the name of the skill technique in which you shade from darker to lighter?

Gradation Tornadoes

500

What's the name of the drawing style in which people have a large head, basic shapes for the body, and simple lines for arms and legs?

Ivan Brunetti style

Parts of Speech

100

What type of word modifies or describes nouns and/or pronouns?

Adjectives

200

Persons, places, and things, are all examples of what kind of word?

Nouns

300

If a verb is being modified or qualified by another word, that type of word is what?

Adverb

400

Words that express relation like where and when are what kind of word?

Prepositions

500

Three words -- the, a, an -- are a special kind of adjective called what?

Article

Plot

100

What is the name for the diagram that illustrates how a story plays out?

Freytag's Pyramid

200

What is the name for the single point in a story in which the major problem or conflict is introduced?

Inciting Incident

300

What is the term for the part of a story in which the major problem(s) get worse and worse for the main character?

Rising Action

400

What is the name for the most tense part of a story, where the problem has gotten as bad as it will get?

Climax

500

What is the name for the part of the story after the climax, in which the problems are resolved and tension lessens?

Falling Action

Miscellaneous

100

What's the term for taking notes on the text you're reading?

Annotation / Annotating

200

What are the two types of characterization? One is when an author tells you what a character is like; the second is when the reader must figure it out based on the character's actions and thoughts.

Direct Characterization and Indirect Characterization

300

What is the term for a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun?

Prepositional Phrase

400

What type of poem has three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each that focuses on observations about nature?

Haiku

500

What are the three ways of fixing a run-on sentence?

1. Period / New Sentence

2. Comma and Conjunction

3. Semicolon