Jeopardy Review Game and English Notes

Jeopardy Review Game


Here also are the answers for more of the English questions that we have been reviewing in class this last week.

Plot Mountain - the summary of the events of a story 

Exposition:  introduces the who (characters), when (time period), where (place)
Inciting incident:  the first event that gets the story in motion
Rising Action:  the events leading to the climax
Climax:  the highest point of interest - where the conflict is confronted or resolved 
Falling Action:  the events leading to the denouement 
Denouement:  the conclusion - the tying up of loose ends 

Characterization Terms: 

Protagonist - main character of a story
Antagonist - the one who opposes the protagonist 
Supporting character - minor characters of a story 

Round -character who has many traits 
Flat - character who is made up of one or two traits 

Static - character does not make a permanent change in outlook or attitude by the end of the story
Dynamic - character makes a permanent change in outlook or attitude by the end of the story

Figures of Speech:

Alliteration:  the repetition of initial sounds in a series of words (eg. tongue twisters) 
Personification:  giving human like qualities to non living things (eg. the wind whistled) 
Onomatopoeia:  words that sound like what they mean (eg.  buzz, pop )
Hyperbole:  an exaggeration for emphasis (eg.  I told you a million times.) 
Simile:  a comparison using like or as (eg. She was as sweet as sugar.) 
Metaphor:  a comparison that states something is something else (eg.  He is a pig when he eats.) 

Types of Writing: 

Narrative:  writing that tells a story (think of narrator) 
Descriptive: writing that describes a subject 
Expository:  writing that explains a subject 
Persuasive:  writing that persuades the reader to a particular point of view 

Parts of Speech:

Noun:  person, place, thing or idea 
Adjective:  word to describe a noun
Verb: an action word 
Adverb:  a word to describe a verb (eg. "ly" words)  
Conjunction: a word that joins phrases (and, but, or, nor) 
Preposition:  a word that shows position (Words that can fit in the blank in this sentence - "The bee flew _________ the bee hive.")

Antonyms - words that are opposites (eg. up, down)
Synonyms:  words that are similar in meaning (eg. cute, pretty) 
Homonyms:  words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings (hear, here) 

Important rule of dialogue:  When writing dialogue between characters, start a new paragraph every time the speaker changes. 

Showing language - the author uses imagery and description to paint a picture in the reader's mind 
- it should be used in good writing 

Telling language - the author simply tells the reader information instead of showing which is less engaging for the reader