1. American Lit “Final” Jeopardy
Research Skills
Literary Periods
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Writing and Language Skills
More Literary Terms
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Final Jeopardy

2. $100 Answer from Writing Skills This is the correct word to complete the sentence: Please (accept/except) my apologies for being late.

3. $100 Question from Writing Skills
What is ACCEPT?

4. $200 Answer from Writing Skills This is the correct word to complete the sentence: My prom dress is a bit (lose/loose); I need to get it altered. A

5. $200 Question from Writing Skills
What is LOOSE?

6. $300 Answer from Writing Skills
This is the spelling of the correct word to complete the sentence:
Elizabeth was (they’re/their/there) best friend.

7. $300 Question from Writing Skills
What is THEIR?

8. $400 Answer from Writing Skills This is the correct word to replace the underlined word in the sentence: Just as fears of witchcraft once besieged the citizens of colonial Massachusetts, the fear of communists in the U.S. government obsess millions of Americans after WWII.

9. $400 Question from Writing Skills
What is OBSESSED?

10. $500 Answer from Writing Skills This is the most likely meaning of the word “riotous” in the following stanza: “This is the debt I pay Just for one riotous day Years of regret and grief, Sorrow without relief.”

11. $500 Question from Writing Skills What is rebellious?

12. $100 Answer from Research Skills
This is the first piece of information you should include in a bibliography entry.

13. $100 Question from Research Skills
What is the author’s last name?

14. $200 Answer from Research Skills
This is the list of all the sources used in a research paper.

15. $200 Question from Research Skills
What is a Works Cited page?

16. $300 Answer from Research Skills These need to be included anytime you use an outside source in your writing or research. of

17. $300 Question from Research Skills What are citations?

18. $400 Answer from Research Skills This is what is missing from the following entry: Handy, Carolyn. Of Tragedies and Comedies. New York: 1995.

19. $400 Question from Research Skills
What is the publisher?

20. $500 Answer from Research Skills Of the following, this is what you do NOT need to include in a citation for a magazine article: -Volume and page numbers -Title of Article -Date of Publication -Place of Publication

21. $500 Question from Research Skills
What is the place of publication?

22. $100 Answer from Literary Terms This is the attitude and emotion conveyed toward a subject; in “The Debt,” for instance, it is reflective and sorrowful.

23. $100 Question from Literary Terms What is tone?

24. $200 Answer from Literary Terms This is the technique that unifies Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to her Book,” as she addresses the book as “thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain.”

25. $200 Question from Literary Terms What is personification?

26. $300 Answer from Literary Terms Lorraine Hansberry used this when she named her play A Raisin in the Sun by making a direct reference to a poem by Langston Hughes. . T

27. $300 Question from Literary Terms What is allusion?

28. $400 Answer from Literary Terms When JFK says, “a beachead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion,” he is using one of these.

29. $400 Question from Literary Terms
What is metaphor?

30. $500 Answer from Literary Terms “The steady spread of the deadly atom” is an example of this.

31. $500 Question from Literary Terms
What is assonance?

32. $100 Answer from More Lit Terms “Let us go forth to lead the land we love” contains an example of this. .

33. $100 Question from More Lit Terms
What is alliteration?

34. $200 Answer from More Lit Terms In addition to alliteration, the phrase, “Whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall…” contains this.

35. $200 Question from More Lit Terms
What is consonance?

36. $300 Answer from More Lit Terms JFK used this in his inaugural speech when he made reference to the Biblical figure Isaiah, who implored his people to “undo the heavy burdens…and let the oppressed go free.”

37. $300 Question from More Lit Terms
What is allusion?

38. $400 Answer from More Lit Terms This is the purpose of the words in parentheses in the following excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun: WALTER (Laughing a little) A what? Man, that ain’t nothing to want to be!

39. $400 Question from More Lit Terms
What are stage directions?

40. $500 Answer from More Lit Terms When Lorraine Hansberry writes Walter’s line as “that ain’t nothing” instead of “that isn’t anything,” she is using this.

41. $500 Question from More Lit Terms
What is dialect?

42. $100 Answer from Literary Periods Formal language and religious themes were characteristic of this literary time period.

43. $100 Question from Literary Periods
What is the Puritan/Colonial Era?

44. $200 Answer from Literary Periods This literary period, which produced many famous novels including The Great Gatsby, was marked by “wild experimentation” and deviation from literary norms.

45. $200 Question from Literary Periods
What is Modernism?

46. $300 Answer from Literary Periods
This “rebirth” of literary, artistic, and musical expression in the African-American community was centered in New York and produced such talents as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.

47. $300 Question from Literary Periods
What is the Harlem Renaissance?

48. $400 Answer from Literary Periods
This literary and philosophical movement was characterized by the search for truth through solitude and communion with the natural world.

49. $400 Question from Literary Periods
What is Transcendentalism?

50. $500 Answer from Literary Periods This is one of the three American authors most commonly associated with “anti-Transcendentalism,” otherwise known as Gothic literature or Dark Romanticism. .

51. $500 Question from Literary Periods
Who are Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne?

52. Final Jeopardy
This is the Civil Rights icon whose murder was referred to in The Help.

53. Final Jeopardy Question: Who is Medgar Evers?