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Fiction
Nonfiction
Night
Caesar
Huck Finn
100
The use of a person, place, object or activity that stands for something bigger than itself.
What is symbolism?
100
Similar grammatical structure used to emphasize ideas of equal importance.
What is parallelism?
100
The man who tried to warn the Jews of Sighet after he escaped the Einsatzgruppen. The Jews would not listen to him.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
100
A speech given by a character alone on stage to reveal private thoughts and feelings.
What is a soliloquy?
100
The literary ridiculing of ideas, customs, behaviors or institutions in order to improve society.
What is satire?
200
The message about life or human nature the writer wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
200
Elements such as headings, boldface type, and bulleted lists.
What are text features?
200
Elie's inheritance from his father.
What are a knife and spoon?
200
Brutus claims to have killed Caesar because of this trait.
What is Caesar's ambition?
200
The method of narration in a piece of literature. Huck Finn has a first person narrator.
What is point of view?
300
The contrast between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is situational irony?
300
Occurs in nonfiction when a speaker appeals to the audience's sense of right, justice and virtue.
What is ethical appeal?
300
Elie teaches his father to do this correctly.
What is how to march?
300
Saved Caesar from drowning.
Who is Cassius?
300
A reference to something famous with which the audience should be familiar.
What is an allusion?
400
The five stages of plot.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
400
The nonfiction piece that argues against the use of love in public affairs.
What is Tolerance?
400
The religious holiday for which Elie refuses to fast in order to show his disobedience to God.
What is Yom Kippur?
400
Says the following: "It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."
Who is Caesar?
400
A particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is dialect?
500
This occurs when the reader/viewer knows something the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
500
The nonfiction piece with the theme that human beings can conquer nature in dire circumstances.
What is The Man in the Water?
500
This person's brutal hanging caused the soup to taste like corpses.
Who is the pipel (or sad-eyed angel)?
500
Says, "Now let it work. Mischief thou art afoot. Take thou what curse thou wilt."
Who is Antony?
500
FINAL JEOPARDY: The FIVE types of character conflict.
What are character vs.: character, self, nature, society, and fate?