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(Double Points)
(500 : Final Jeopardy)
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(500 : Final Jeopardy)
100
Which Peter Matthiessen sentence is properly punctuated?
A. Figures dark beneath there loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders.
B. Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders.
C. Figures dark beneath they're loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders.
What is "B"?
100
As a [blank] to Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, in "I'm Here" Spike Jonze examines the limits of charity and love.
Jonze illustrates the absurdity of infinite sacrifice, using [blank] to exaggerate the lengths people will go to in the name of love.
What is "hyperbole"?
100
The White House: Refers to the US president or their administration
The Crown: Refers to the British royal family
Hollywood: Refers to the film industry or celebrities
Wall Street: Refers to the stock market
Spell [blank] — the use of an aspect of something to represent the whole.
What is "m-e-t-o-n-y-m-y"?
100
The first line of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" houses many literary devices:
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
Name one and give its definition.
Student choice.
100
Joseph Wharton, along with his many successful business ventures, has helped shape the history of American industry.
A. [NO CHANGE]
B. Wharton, including his many successful business ventures, have
C. Wharton, along with his many successful business ventures, have
D. Wharton and his many successful business ventures has
What is "A"?
100
In Sam Mendes' Jarhead, Anthony Swofford reaches a breaking a point after ironically being sent to war not to kill. As the movie reaches it's climax, Mendes illustrates his point through the use of [blank], exemplified by the following dialogue:
Without my rifle,
I am nothing.
Without my rifle,
I am nothing.
Without me,
my rifle is nothing.
Without me,
my rifle is nothing.
What is "repetition"?
100
A place where one buys snacks at a game, this rhetorical approach yields a small victory to the opposition to win the larger argument.
What is a “concession”?
200
Which Cormac McCarthy sentence is properly punctuated?
A. They were watching, out their past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
B. They were watching, out there past mens' knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
C. They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
What is "C"?
200
Lamar's "The Art of Peer Pressure" [blanks] to [blank], referring to Sun Tsu's text as a means to frame survival of inner-city camaraderie as "a matter of life and death."
What is "alludes/allusion"?
What is "The Art of Peer Pressure"?
200
Like the image above, these types of arguments involves the creation of easily refutable positions; misrepresenting then attacking an opponent's position.
What is "straw man"?
200
Sometimes, the truth can be captured in a short, astute statement, also known as an [blank].
What follows is an example from Kevin Powers's "Letters Composed During a Lull in the Fighting":
I tell her how Pvt. Bartle says, offhand,
that war is just us
making little pieces of metal
pass through each other.
What is "aphorism"?
200
The "desert rally," an endurance race by dune buggies across hostile terrain, that only the fiercest competitors qualify for.
A. [NO CHANGE]
B. which only the fiercest competitors can qualify for.
C. and only the fiercest competitors qualify for it.
D. is a contest that only the fiercest competitors qualify for
What is "D"?
200
Because of its resemblance to a jar, the jargon Jarhead serves as a [blank] for meaninglessness, the object that represents soldiers as "empty vessels."
What is "symbol(-ism)"?
200
Circles. Cookies. Taxes. Umbrella. Mirrors. Laundry. Everything goes round and round.
If once is an accident, and twice is a coincidence, then the repetition of an object, pattern, or idea is a [blank].
What is a "motif"?
300
There are several activities that I like to practice every day; motorcycling, running, and songwriting.
A. [NO CHANGE]
B. every day: motorcycling,
C. every day, motorcycling,
D. every day. Motorcycling,
What is "B"?
300
In "Sing About Me," Lamar writes:
"Or steady being distracted by
Money drugs, and four —
Fives, I count lives"
By continuing the sentence past the line, Lamar uses [blank] to subvert and thus expose the meaning of his music, one that does not glamorize violence, but rather catalogues the lives lost in them.
What is "enjambment"?
300
Sounds don't create meaning, but do they spotlight texts that could be mined for meaning. For example,
I should ask a choir: "What do you require
To sing a song that acquire me to have faith?"
Here, Lamar use [blank] — the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the end or within words — to highlight his yearning for escape.
What is "consonance"?
300
Proponents of incarceration reform argues that a person is capable of change. People choose to marry convince that things hold perpetual identity.
These considerations bring to mind [blank], a famous paradox that examines the abstraction of continuities and changes.
What is "Ship of Theseus"?
300
The intrepid explorers of the wilderness discovered a new river, they also found a pair of mountains they named "Dipyramid."
A. [NO CHANGE]
B. river, found
C. river; they also found
D. river and found
What is "D"?
300
In "April's Way," Stockton Lane examines the morality of a mother and daughter looking for food during the Rodney King Riots.
Arguments based on [blank] deals with the examination of character, morality, ethics.
What is "ethos"?
300
This device shares a near homonym with former vice president Al Gore’s name.
Similarly, a South Park episode uses a creature called ManBearPig as a(n) [blank] — a text which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning — for global warming, trying to satirize people out of their caves.
What is ”allegory”?
400
Properly grammaticize Alice Munro's following sentence:
In your life their are a few places or maybe only the one place where something happened and then there are all the other places.
What is...
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened and then there are all the other places.
In your life there are a few places — or maybe only the one place — where something happened and then there are all the other places.
400
In her examination of poverty and opportunity, in Chandra Feldman in "Money Tree" writes:
"where’s the undissuaded youth who sought
a scarce grace here? Who sought to make bank?
The shoulder and arm and wrist on repeat
even as day went thoroughly dark"
Here, through her use of [blank] — or word choice — Feldman's [blank] — the meaning implied by her words — illustrates basketball as the only means of escape.
What is "diction"?
What is "connotation"?
400
It's often a sin not to use conjunctions when creating a list.
However, [blank] helps create pace, allowing a writer to speed through a catalogue, and thus accumulating towards an argument.
For example, here's an example from William Golding's Lord of the Flies:
We saw no houses, no smoke, no footprints, no boats, no people.
What is "asyndeton"?
400
Though often taken for granted, the perspective from which a text is told proves often to be an important choice.
In "How to Date... Junot Diaz makes the reader the protagonist through the use of "you." In Whitman's catalogue, he makes the reader a part of the collective through the use of "we." Both use this through the device of [blank].
What is "second-person point-of-view"?
400
** Daily Double **
Properly grammaticize Tobias Wolff's following sentence:
we we're all a little drunk with spring like the fat bees reeling from flower to flower and a strange insurrectionary current ran among us
What is...
We were all a little drunk with spring, like the fat bees reeling from flower to flower, and a strange insurrectionary current ran among us.
400
Hayao Miyazaki incorporates symbolisms, motifs, dialectics, et cetera in nearly every scene of Spirited Away. Attribute a literary device to the image below and explain its significance to Miyazaki's argument:
Student Choice
400
Jarheads' [blank] — diction used by a group which practices a similar profession — are often seen as crass, rude, offensive. However, as Tim O'Brien notes, Jarheads used "a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness."
What is "jargon"?
500
Properly grammaticize Anthony Doerr's following sentence:
Beneath you're world of skies, and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world a place where surface planes disintegrate, and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
What is...
Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
500
Spirited Away provides several dialectics. Perhaps the primary dialectic lies in Hayao Miyazaki's juxtaposition of industrialization with the [blank], a genre which depicts an idealized form of the rural, criticizing the complexity and corruption of city life.
What is "pastoral"?
500
In Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, an M&M symbolizes the realization of a friend's death, a pebble symbolizes the unrequited love, weapons symbolize the capability for violence.
By using these objects, O'Brien aimed to give physical to [blank] ideas, abstract ideas that transcend the physical world.
What is "metaphysical"?
500
The idiom "to put the cart before the horse" means to reverse the proper order or procedure of something.
After thinking too much, [blank] decided to go back from the beginning and start with doubt.
Who is "Descartes"?
500
Properly grammaticize H.G. Wells' following sentence:
It sounds plausible enough tonight but wait until tomorrow wait for the common sense of the morning.
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow; wait for the common sense of the morning
500
Spike Jonze's "I'm Here" serves as an allegory in multiple ways. Considering these images, what is a possible meaning Jonze's presents?
Consider the catalogue he creates.
[Student explanation.]
500
Final Jeopardy. You may wager up to how many points you have.
Spell my last name.
What is "R-E-S-U-R-R-E-C-C-I-O-N"?