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2. $100 Answer from Vocabulary
Most desirable; maximum; total
“_______ darkness occurs at oh-three hundred hours” (Philbrick. 56)

3. $100 Question from Vocabulary
What is optimum?
Bonus $100 if you can name a synonym for the word.

4. $200 Answer from Vocabulary
Kindness; ability to do good for others
Marley was known for his _______; he always wanted to help others.

5. $200 Question from Vocabulary
What is benevolence?
Bonus $200 if you can identify and a synonym and antonym for the word.

6. $300 Answer from Vocabulary
Literary term used for the words around a difficult word that are used to determine a definition.

7. $300 Question from Vocabulary
What are context clues?

8. $400 Answer from Vocabulary
A state of being susceptible to injury or damage (physically, emotionally, or spiritually)
Because he did not protect his computer with an anti-virus program, it was __________.

9. $400 Question from Vocabulary
What is vulnerable?
$400 if you can identify the word’s suffix and part of speech and explain the meaning of the suffix

10. $500 Answer from Vocabulary
Gloomy; ill-tempered
Scrooge was _____ before the Ghosts visited him.

11. $500 Question from Vocabulary
What is morose?
Bonus $500 if you can name a word part that you can add and an antonym

12. $100 Answer from Grammar and Usage
The corrections needed in the following sentence:
‘i don’t want to go to school today’ the daughter said

13. $100 Question from Grammar and Usage
What is the fact that the quotation marks need to be two quotation marks, I should always be capitalized, and there should be a period at the end of the sentence.
Bonus $100 if you tell me the name for “ the daughter said.”

14. $200 Answer from Grammar and Usage
The difference between a title that is underlined (or italicized when typed) and a title that is placed in quotation marks

15. $200 Question from Grammar and Usage
What is the fact that underlined (or italicized) titles indicate that they are the names for a large work of art, literature, or music, whereas titles that are set in quotation marks indicate that they are works within larger works?
$200 bonus if you can name a title that should be underlined and one that should be in quotation marks

16. $300 Answer from Grammar and Usage
The corrections needed in the following sentence:
I like james car, it is very fast!

17. $300 Question from Grammar and Usage
What is the fact that James should be capitalized and have an ‘s after his name. It should be a semicolon or a period instead of a comma.
Bonus $300 explain why you must make these corrections.

18. $400 Answer from Grammar and Usage
The corrections needed in the following sentence:
If you would have went to the movies than you wouldnt wonder what it was about.

19. $400 Question from Grammar and Usage
If you would have went to the movies, then you wouldn’t wonder what it was about.
Bonus $400 what is the term used for words like wouldn’t, couldn’t , you’re

20. $500 Answer from Grammar and Usage
He jump up into the air; and he made it into the basket. The hole crowd cheered.

21. $500 Question from Grammar and Usage
He jumped up into the air; and he made it into the basket. The whole crowd cheered.
Whole meaning entire part.
Bonus $500 if you can tell me why did we make the other two corrections.

22. $100 Answer from Literary Terms
A reference to something the audience should understand without going into detail:
In The Raven, Poe refers to “the balm of Gilead,” which his audience at that time understood was a reference to the book of Jeremiah.

23. $100 Question from Literary Terms
What is an allusion?
$100 bonus if you can name an allusion in one of the texts that we read this semester

24. $200 Answer from Literary Terms
An object that represents (stands for) another object or concept:
For example, the “chains of purse and money” represents Scrooge’s sins and greed.

25. $200 Question from Literary Terms
What is a symbol, or what is symbolism?
$200 bonus if you can name another example of symbolism within one of the texts we read this semester.

26. $300 Answer from Literary Terms
A contrast between what was expected to happen and what actually occurs:
In A Christmas Carol, readers don’t expect the younger Scrooge to talk about treating his employees well because of the way he treats them now.

27. $300 Question from Literary Terms
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What is irony?
$300 bonus if you can cite another example of irony within one of the texts we have read this semester

28. $400 Answer from Literary Terms
The repetition of consecutive consonant sounds:
Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile

29. $400 Question from Literary Terms
What is consonance?
$400 bonus if you can respond quickly with another example of a sound device

30. $500 Answer from Literary Terms
Giving human traits to non-living objects
The math book was taunting Victor, daring him to open it (Soto 255).

31. $500 Question from Literary Terms
What is personification?
$500 bonus if you can think two other types of figurative language and give an example of each.

32. $100 Answer from Genre / Subgenre
A subgenre of drama that features a cast of characters, stage directions, and is meant to be performed on t.v.

33. $100 Question from Genre / Subgenre
What is a teleplay?
Bonus $100 if you match the subgenre with a text

34. $200 Answer from Genre / Subgenre
The category of literature that provides the details of real-life events, which follow the traditional plot elements

35. $200 Question from Genre / Subgenre
What is narrative nonfiction?
$200 if you can match a text to the subgenre

36. $300 Answer from Genre / Subgenre
A type of writing that includes a thesis statement that is supported with evidence and analysis

37. $300 Answer from Genre / Subgenre
What is an essay?
$300 if you can tell me the acronym we use for body paragraphs

38. $400 Answer from Genre / Subgenre
A category of literature that is usually divided into lines and stanzas

39. $400 Question from Genre / Subgenre
What is poetry?
Bonus $400 if you give me a subgenre of poetry

40. $500 Answer from Genre / Subgenre
Writing about one’s own life

41. $500 Question from Genre / Subgenre
What is autobiography?
Bonus $500 is you can tell me the difference between biography and autobiography