Mystery and Crime Final Exam Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What are 3 of the 5 Common Gothic Elements?

1: Using the Supernatural 2: People are run by their emotions/passions 3: Broken Family Dynamics 4: Eerie/Mysterious Settings 5: Distinctive Characters

Closing Statement

the final address to the jury by the attorney for each side of a case in which the attorney usually summarizes the evidence and his or her client's position

The beginning of the trial is limited to outlining facts. This is each party's opportunity to set the basic scene for the jurors, introduce them to the core dispute(s) in the case, and provide an outline of how the trial will go

Opening Statement

the examination of a witness who has already testified in order to check or discredit the witness's testimony, knowledge, or credibility

Cross Examination

Verdict

The decision of a petit jury or a judge.

Felony

A crime carrying a penalty of more than a year in prison

Charge

The law that the police believe the defendant has broken

Objection

A reason that an attorney interrupts a witness to talk to the judge.

elected/appointed official who conducts court proceedings. Must remain impartial

Judge

Prosecutor

Provides evidence to prove the person committed the crime

Defendant

The one who stands accused of the crime/Defense

a competition in which students simulate a real trial.

Mock Trial

a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.

Witness

an ending to an episode of a serial drama that leaves the audience in suspense.

Cliffhanger

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

Antagonist

the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Protagonist

Evidence

facts and physical details that can be used in court.

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Satire

An uneasy feeling that a reader gets when they don't know what is going to happen next.

Suspense

a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

Scapegoat

Trope

Refer to any type of figure of speech, theme, image, character, or plot element that is used many times. Cliche

Alibi

a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.

A false or assumed identity.

Alias

A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.

Plot

Deduction

a process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.