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Round 1
Poetic Forms
$200
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
$400
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
$600
A Japanese form of short poetry consisting of three phrases with a 5, 7, 5 syllable structure.
$800
A fourteen-line poem traditionally written in iambic pentameter.
$1000
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner.
Narrative Perspective
$200
A narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
$400
The use of 'I' or 'me' to tell a story from a character's direct viewpoint.
$600
The vantage point where the narrator focuses on the thoughts of only one specific character.
$800
A narrator who is unreliable, perhaps due to ignorance, bias, or mental instability.
$1000
A narrative technique that attempts to replicate the continuous flow of thoughts in a character's mind.
Literary Terms
$200
The emotional atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work.
$400
A figure of speech where a part is made to represent the whole.
$600
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity.
$800
A reference to a well-known person, place, or event in literature or history.
$1000
A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
Shakespearean Drama
$200
The tragic Scottish king driven by ambition and a prophecy.
$400
The moorish general whose jealousy is exploited by Iago.
$600
The young lover who believes Juliet is dead and consumes poison.
$800
The prince of Denmark who famously contemplates suicide.
$1000
The aging monarch who divides his kingdom among his daughters.
Victorian Novels
$200
The orphaned girl who becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall.
$400
The social-climbing young woman at the center of Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
$600
The passionate woman who marries Edgar Linton but loves Heathcliff.
$800
The mild-mannered man who transforms into the monstrous Edward Hyde.
$1000
The protagonist of a Dickens novel who navigates the London criminal underworld.
Modernism
$200
The poet known for The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
$400
The American author who wrote The Sound and the Fury and Light in August.
$600
The British novelist who wrote Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
$800
The author who depicted the decay of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby.
$1000
The Irish author known for the complex interiority of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.
Double Jeopardy
Poetic Forms
$400
A complex 19-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains.
$800
A Japanese 31-syllable poem that consists of five units, often dealing with nature or love.
$1200
A poem of lamentation, specifically the Spanish version that reflects on life and death.
$1600
A poem structured with 39 lines, unrhymed, following a specific end-word repetition pattern.
$2000
A verse form consisting of eight iambic lines, followed by a final triplet, following an ABABBCC rhyme scheme.
Narrative Perspective
$400
A story told through a series of documents, letters, or diary entries.
$800
The frame narrative structure where a story exists inside another story.
$1200
An observer narrator who tells a story without revealing any character's internal thoughts.
$1600
A technique where multiple characters provide different accounts of the same event.
$2000
A narrative method where the author addresses the reader directly as 'you'.
Literary Terms
$400
The use of a word that sounds like what it describes.
$800
A harsh, discordant combination of sounds, opposite of euphony.
$1200
A short, pithy saying expressing a general truth or piece of wisdom.
$1600
A figure of speech where an abstract quality is given a human name or form.
$2000
A term for a sudden, unexpected change in a character's fortune or circumstance.
Shakespearean Drama
$400
The usurping brother of Prospero in The Tempest.
$800
The clever, witty protagonist of Much Ado About Nothing who spars with Benedick.
$1200
The young woman who disguises herself as a man in Twelfth Night.
$1600
The Roman leader whose arrogance leads to his assassination by his peers.
$2000
The vengeful, manipulative character who destroys Othello's happiness.
Victorian Novels
$400
The titular heroine of a George Eliot novel set in a fictional Midlands town.
$800
The ambitious young man who seeks social advancement in Great Expectations.
$1200
The mysterious, ethereal woman who haunts the Moors.
$1600
The character who represents the social struggle of the working class in Hard Times.
$2000
The orphan who is raised by a cruel aunt and later seeks her independence in Yorkshire.
Modernism
$400
The American author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.
$800
The protagonist of Dubliners who reflects on his past in The Dead.
$1200
The writer of The Heart of Darkness, often criticizing the impact of imperialism.
$1600
The author who explored the absurdity of human existence in The Metamorphosis.
$2000
The poet who described the modern world as a 'hollow land' filled with 'hollow men'.
Final Jeopardy · Literary Theory
This movement, championed by critics like I.A. Richards, argued that a text should be analyzed solely for its internal structure and language, excluding authorial intent.
