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Background An Episode of War/Frederick

Douglass

Owl Creek Bridge

Jumping Frog

Outcasts of Poker Flat

The Story of an Hour/ To Build a

Fire

Realism took place in America during this historical

time period/war.

A 100

What is the Civil War?

A 100

This is the major difference between realism and naturalism.

A 200

What is realism dealt with man’s influence on the world

and naturalism dealt with nature’s influence on man?

A 200

This is a reflection of death and mourning.

A 300

What is an elegy?

A 300

In Realism, this is prioritized over plot.

A 400

What is characterization?

A 400

This writer coined the term “gilded age.”

A 500

Who is Mark Twain?

A 500

When Crane describes the soldiers as “aggregation of

wheels, levers, motors,” with “a beautiful unity,” he is

emphasizing this about the wounded lieutenant.

B 100

What is the idea that “he is an outsider now who has no place in the machinery of

war”?

B 100

This is how Douglass feels about slavery in terms of the

slaveholder-slave relationship.

B 200

What is “slavery goes against the nature of both slaves and

slaveholders”?

B 200

Douglass’s story reveals this that in the South slaves and

women were both this.

B 300

What are subject to white male authority?

B 300

These people were ultimately responsible for teaching Douglass how to read.

B 400

Who are the neighborhood boys?

B 400

Describe the place of fate within two pieces of this unit.

B 500

What are “various answers accepted”?

B 500

The following statement is written in this person/point of

view:

“He was awakened-ages later, it seemed to him-by…a sharp

pressure.”

C 100

What is third-person limited point of view?

C 100

The following statement is written in this person/point-

of-view:

“The thought of his wife and children urged him on.”

C 200

What is third person omniscient?

C 200

This is the main function of the flashback in this story.

C 300

What is to explain why Peyton Farquhar is being

hanged?

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

DAILY DOUBLE

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This event in the story provides a clue that certain

events occur in Peyton Farquhar’s imagination rather

than in reality.

C 400

What is the incredible detail of the river bank?

C 400

Peyton Farquhar was loyal to this side of the war for this

reason.

C 500

What is the south because he was a wealthy plantation owner with many slaves?

C 500

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” has a

story-within-a-story, which is also known as this.

D 100

What is a frame tale?

D 100

This example of regional dialect:

“He roused up, and gave me good day”

means this.

D 200

What is “he stood up and greeted me”?

D 200

These things make this story a Regionalist piece.

D 300

What are “various answers accepted”?

D 300

This aspect of the story makes it humorous.

D 400

What is “Simon Wheeler’s not recognizing how

ridiculous his tale is”?

D 400

Tell me what this example of regional dialect means:

“[Smiley’s dog] would grab the other dog…and hang on

till they throwed up the sponge.”

D 500

What is “admit that they had lost the bet”?

D 500

The characters in this story are stereotypical characters, also known as these types of

characters.

E 100

What are stock characters?

E 100

The four outcasts first behave this way when they are

kicked out of town.

E 200

What is with bitterness?

E 200

The fact that Mother Shipton refers to Piney as “the child”

suggests that she is this.

E 300

What is that “she cares for Piney and wants to help her”?

E 300

The title of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is ironic for this

reason.

E 400

What is because the outcasts are better people than those

who exile them?

E 400

This piece is a Regionalist piece of writing for these

reasons.

E 500

What are the setting, the dialect, the attitudes of the

townspeople, etc…?

E 500

Mrs. Mallard believes that she will live for this person

now that her husband is dead.

F 100

Who is herself?

F 100

London suggests this when he writes:

“The dog did not know anything about

thermometers… But the brute had its instinct.”

F 200

What is that the dog does not need a device to measure the

cold?

F 200

This could be considered the central message of “To Build

a Fire.”

F 300

What is “to survive in the wilderness, pay attention to

your surroundings”?

F 300

In the story, Mrs. Mallard feels something approaching and describes it as “creeping”

and something that will “possess her”. What is ironic

about this?

F 400

What is that it is her freedom she feels coming?

F 400

How is “The Story of an Hour” an ironic title?

F 500

What is because a character gains her freedom and loses

her life in a single hour?

F 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is:

Irony

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Name the three types of irony and give me their definitions along

with an example of each.

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Verbal- when the author means the opposite of what he says.

Situational- When the opposite of what you expect to happen,

happens.

Dramatic- When the audience/reader knows something that the characters/actors do not.

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