ELT English JEOPARDY :)

All Things English

100

Aside from your thesis, this portion of your paragraph, essay response, and/or full essay is the MOST challenging?

What is the Analysis?

200

The roadmap of your response/essay.

What is your THESIS! 

300

The missing portion of this excerpt is the ___________. In the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena says, "I am your spaniel."

What is the citation?

400

The phrase that should be removed from the following analysis is: ___________. This quote shows Helena thinks that she is lesser or less than Demetrius and views herself as his pet to do with as he wishes. Helena's metaphor paints herself as a pathetic object and not an independent human being with thoughts of her own. 

What is "This quote shows"?

500

The phrases, words, and personal labels that should be left out of FORMAL papers. 

What are personal pronouns?

Literary Devices

100

"To be or not to be, that is the question" (Shakespeare, Hamlet).

What is syntax OR what is a rhetorical question?

200

"Tybalt, get thee villain back again" (Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet). 

What is a metaphor?

300

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it" (Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird). IT IS NOT A METAPHOR.

What is a euphemism. 

400

Bradbury writes Clarisse experiencing the night as "warm-cool feeling of the night air" and smelling of "strawberries and fresh apricots" (Fahrenheit 451).  The 3 types of imagery used here are: ___________

What are: tactile, olfactory, and gustatory?

500

Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson in the court room in Mayberry.   

What is Juxtaposition. 

Moore Facts

100

My first name. 

What is Denae?

200

The number of horses I have (including the pony). 

What is 4?

300

My favorite football team.

Who are the Ravens?

400

My favorite number. 

What is 9?

500

My favorite word. It is 13 letters long, which is the day of my birth, and it defines the whole of adolescence. 

What is contradiction? 

WSCA Facts

100

The age of the school. 

What is 25 years old!?

200

AP is an abbreviation/acronym for this. 

What is Advanced Placement?

300

The AP English class exploring stories, narratives, and deeper understandings :) 

What is AP LIT?

400

The year the school first opened its doors to students. 

What is 2009?

500

The mascot for strength, unity, & intelligence. 

What is the WSCA Wolf?

The Poets

100

"All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream" (______, A Dream Within a Dream, ln. 10-11). 

Who is Edgar Allen Poe? 

200

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume" (_________, Song of Myself, ln. 1-2).

Who is Walt Whitman? 

300

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood" (__________, The Road Not Taken, ln. 1-3).

Who is Robert Frost?

400

POP CULTURE POET

"Mirror on the wall (woo), here we are again (yeah)
Through my rise and fall (uh)
You've been my only friend (yeah)
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin' to each other again?" (____________, Mirror, ln. 13-17). 

Who is Lil Wayne or Dwayne Carter? 

500

"You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise" (_________, Still I Rise, ln. 1-4). 

Who is Maya Angelou?