Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Plot
Literature
Wild Card
100
Prodigy
What is someone who is unusually gifted or intelligent?
100
"It quivered at each sound, the house did." This literary element is used in "There Will Come Soft Rains" to characterize the house.
What is personification?
100
These are the 5 elements of plot.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution?
100
How the main character of "Raymond's Run" is indirectly characterized.
What is bossy, protective, immature and motivated?
100
A TRUE story.
What is non-fiction?
200
Synonyms are: Shake, shiver, tremble, shudder
What is quiver?
200
Simile
What is something that compares two things using like or as.
200
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
200
The setting of "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is August 4, 2026 after a nuclear bomb was dropped. DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Why is the setting important to the theme?
200
The genre meant to be performed in front of an audience in a theater.
What is drama?
300
Markee had an intense fear or suspicion that his friends were talking about him.
What is paranoia?
300
Mrs. Flowers was told in this point of view because it is an autobiography.
What is first-person? DOUBLE JEOPARDY: How do you know this?
300
In "Goldilocks and the Three Bears this was the climax.
What is the bears come home and catch Goldilocks?
300
This is why Roger is a dynamic character.
What is he changed from a thief to a polite boy?
300
The _____________ class was too loud to learn anything from the teacher’s activity.
What is rowdy?
400
Showing gentleness or kindness.
What is benign?
400
This is the type of conflict Alfonso experienced with his looks.
What is internal conflict?
400
The setting of Mrs. Flowers.
What is Stamps, Alabama in 1940? DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Why is this important to the story?
400
The central theme of R.U.R and "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is technology destroys humanity.
400
An account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
500
There, down the tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an _______________which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner.
What is incinerator?
500
This is the theme of "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is technology is able to survive past its maker, yet is ultimately destroyed by nature. Nature is the force that survives over all others.
500
The resolution of Thank You M'am.
What is Roger said "Thank You" to Mrs. Jones.
500
The ironic part of "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is the sun rises (nature) as the electronic voice continues to die (technology).
500
The genre of "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is science fiction?
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