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Rules of Play –Each team will send a representative to the hot seat for four consecutive questions, and rotate –There will be four categories, and one Final Jeopardy –Final Jeopardy will involve a wager to determine teams’ final winnings
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Teams Teams will be formed alphabetically as follows:
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Short Stop It’s all Greek to me The Not Normal Novel That’s a (Caesar) Wrap $200 200$200200$200200 $400400$400400$400400$400400 $600600$600600$600600$600600 $800800$800800$800800$800800 $10001000$10001000$10001000$10001000
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$200 What are personification and alliteration? Name the two literary devices used in this line from “The Tell-Tale Heart”: The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.
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$400 What is the climax? The highest point of excitement and action in a short story
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$600 What is a simile? The literary device exemplified in this line: Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard
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$800 What is a metaphor? Comparison of two things, not using like or as (Give an example!)
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$1000 What is sanity? A theme that is common to of each of these short stories: The Tell-Tale Heart Lamb to the Slaughter
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$200 Who is Theseus? This Greek hero triumphed over the minotaur, but failed to fulfill his father’s request to change the colour of his sail upon his return home
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$400 1. She was left on a mountaintop to die after birth 2. A she-bear suckled and cared for her until hunters found and raised her 3. She learned to fight and hunt as a bear would. 4. She was later reunited with her father. Two facts about Atalanta
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$600 What is Narcissus? The moral is not to be vain! The Greek myth depicted by this image (and its moral)
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$800 Midas (The Golden Touch) This commercial is a subtle reference to a certain myth I guess it’s pretty awesome…
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1000$ 1.Son of Venus and Mars 2.Accidentally fell in love with Psyche while on a mission for Venus Two facts about the mythological figure who inspired this character from a very short-lived TV series
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$200 What is the true image? The term used in Waknuk for the ideal human being, as believed to be portrayed in the Bible
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$400 Sophie’s six toes; A tailless cat; Oversize horses Three examples of people/animals and their mutations in The Chrysalids…other than the telepaths (too easy)! Modern example of a “mutation” …the liger
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$600 Who are David and Joseph Strorm, following David’s comment that he wishes he had a third hand? Identify the two speakers and context of this passage: Were you, or were you not, expressing dissatisfaction with the form of the body God gave you -- the form in His own image?' ' I just said if I -- ' 'You blasphemed, boy. You found fault with the Norm. Everybody here heard you. What have you to say to that? You know what the Norm is?‘… 'The Norm is the Image of God.' 'You do know -- and yet, knowing this, you deliberately wished yourself a Mutant. That is a terrible thing, an outrageous thing. You, my son, committing blasphemy, and before his parents!' In his sternest pulpit voice, he added: 'What is a Mutant?' '"A thing accursed in the sight of God and man",' I mumbled.
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$800 What is secrecy? The theme that is revealed through the following passage: He was not able to understand what I meant at first. He kept on talking as though it were a make-believe game; but after I had tried for some time to explain he sat quiet, watching my face as I talked, and presently his expression became very serious. After I'd stopped he said nothing for a minute or two, then he asked: ' This isn't play-stuff -- it's the real truth you're telling me, Davie boy?' And he looked at me hard and steadily as he spoke. 'Yes, Uncle Axel, of course,' I assured him. 'And you never told anyone else -- nobody at all?'
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1000$ -Petra’s powers of telepathy; plans to leave Waknuk -The Spiderman is Joseph’s brother Identify at least two significant secrets in the novel -One kept within the telepaths’ group -One kept from David throughout his childhood
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$200 Cassius initially thinks that Antony should be killed along with Caesar; Cassius does not want Antony to speak immediately after Caesar’s death Evidence to support the position that Cassius possesses better judgement than Brutus
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$400 Antony /Portia - appeal to emotion Cassius – appeal to emotion and powers of logic A character who demonstrates powers of persuasion, and the technique that he/she uses
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$600 Brutus says Antony shall receive the “benefit of Caesar’s dying” without realizing the truth of this statement. Antony wins over the crowd and proceeds to destroy the conspirators. Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth; as which of you shall not? How do these lines demonstrate foreshadowing of future action in the play?
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$800 Antony defends Caesar’s honour in his eulogy and avenges his death Imagine that Antony is accused of being a disloyal friend to Caesar. This is ludicrous, you say! Why? What evidence is there to prove otherwise? Friends, Romans, countrymen...
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$1000 “You saucy fellow.” “You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!” “Thou naughty knave!” “You are a savage spectacle.” Trash talk: Recite a nasty Shakespearean insult from Julius Caesar
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Respond to the following question, and determine your wager Several stories that we have read this semester feature an element of gore or violence. List all of the stories that you consider to be gory/violent and their authors!
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