Primary or Secondary
Plot Elements
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Name that trait!
Figurative Language
100

An original source of information about a topic.

A. Primary Source

B. Secondary Source

What is a Primary Source? 

100

The turning point of the plot. 

A. Falling Action

B. Climax

C. Introduction

What is the climax?

100

What the characters learn through challenges and lessons in their life.

A. Plot

B. Theme

C. Climax

What is theme?

100

The people, animals or objects a story centers around.

A. Characters

B. Narrators

C. Plot

What are the characters?

100

This house is as clean as a whistle! 

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile


What is a Simile?

200

A Biography is a Primary Source?

A. True

B. False

What is False? It is secondary. 

200

The first part of the plot that establishes the main characters/protagonists and setting.

A. Climax

B.  Exposition/Introduction

C. Rising Action

What is the Exposition/Introduction?

200

Point of view when the reader sees all perspectives.

A. Third person omniscient

B. First Person

C. Third Person   

What is third person omniscient?

200

The location of the story/play.

A. Plot

B. Climax

C. Setting

What is the setting?

200

This shopping trip is going to cost me a million dollars!

A. Onomatopoeia

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile


What is a Hyperbole?

300

What type of source is a diary?

A. Primary Source

B. Secondary Source

What is primary source?

300

The story begins to wind down. We start to see the results of the climax and the main characters’ actions.

A. Falling Action

B. Rising Action

C. Resolution

What is falling action?

300

A conclusion drawn from prior knowledge and evidence from the text.

A. Text Evidence

B. Theme

C. Inference 

What is an inference?

300

The voice that tells the story. Sometimes a character in the story.

A. Character

B. Author

C. Narrator

What is a narrator?

300

Miss Thomas's voice was the sun bursting through the clouds.

A. Metaphor

B. Poem 

C. Alliteration 

What is a metaphor?

400

An account written by someone else regarding factual information from various sources about a given event.

A. Primary Source

B. Secondary Source 

What is secondary source?

400

This final plot point is when everything has been wrapped up.

A. Falling Action

B. Setting

C. Resolution 

What is resolution?

400

Historical fiction, realistic fictions, and mystery are all different types of _________? 

A. Genres

B. Fairy Tales

C. Books

What are genres?

400

A summary of the story or chain of events.

A. Story Elements

B. Plot

C. Setting

What is the plot?

400

The wind howled in the night.

A. Simile

B. Idiom

C. Personification


What is Personification?

500

Your textbooks have many examples of secondary sources. 

A. True

B. False

What is true?

500

In this part of the plot, the primary conflict is introduced.

A. Climax

B. Introduction

C. Rising Action

What is rising action?

500

Problem and solution, chronological order, cause and sequence are different types of _______________?

A. Story Elements

B. Text Structures

C. Figurative Language

What are text structures?

500

This helps you understand the meaning of the word without a definition.

A. Teachers

B. Context Clues

C. Encyclopedia 

What are context clues?

500

The big black bug bit brown bear. 

A. Narration

B. Alliteration

C. Personification

What is alliteration?