English 12A Final Exam Jeopardy

Unit 1

100

What is a way that minimizes notice or attention?

Being Discreetly

200

This type of evidence occurs when meaning is unclear or uncertain, or multiple interpretations are possible.

Ambiguity

300

How do you Identify Formal Informational Style?

The tone, word choice, and syntax (arrangement of words and phrases) are formal and objective.

400

Read the paragraph from “Hackers: The Internet’s Immune System.”

We are often terrified and fascinated by the power hackers now have. They scare us. But the choices they make have dramatic outcomes that influence us all. So I am here today because I think we need hackers, and in fact, they just might be the immune system for the information age. Sometimes they make us sick, but they also find those hidden threats in our world, and they make us fix them.

In this paragraph, which idea is implied but not directly stated?

• Common social and media perceptions of hacking can prevent people from seeing its true value.
• Hackers decide what to do with the information they gather based on how people respond to their work. 
• The Internet is full of corrupt information and people need hackers to purge it. 
• Hackers are dangerous and threaten people’s privacy on a daily basis. 

Common social and media perceptions of hacking can prevent people from seeing its true value.

500

As you examine evidence in a text, consider its relevance, sufficiency, and validity concerning its central ideas. What questions should you ask?

What key details does it support or provide? 

Does it make sense to include the evidence in a summary?

Unit 2

100

Which of these are spelled correctly?

extracterbate
exacerbate
exacarbate
exsaserbait
exaserbait

Exacerbate

200

What has a subject and verb; a complete sentence that could stand on its own

Independent clause

300

What types of evidence are from reputable, unbiased sources 

facts, statistics, data

400

Read the excerpt from “Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections,” and then read the statement.

It began much more simply, with the synchronization of bodies: running when others run, laughing when others laugh, crying when others cry, or yawning when others yawn.

The power of the excerpt is revealed by the author’s use of _[blank]_.

parallel structure to show how individuals performed actions together

500

Skimming through information is a valid way to find evidence, true or false.

True.

Unit 3

100

What is a synonym of the word infrastructure?

framework

200

Read the excerpt from “How Much Can Electric Cars Impact Climate Change?”

Just two months before international climate talks begin in Paris, a new report from energy and environmental groups predicts greenhouse gases can plunge 77 percent in 2050 by electrifying more than half the nation’s cars, trucks and forklifts.

What text structure is used in the excerpt?

cause-and-effect

300

How do you Revise Your Thesis Statement and Main Ideas?

By considering how you might be able to refine the essay’s clarity, focus, and flow. 

400

Read the excerpt from “President Kennedy’s Moon Speech.”

For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

In the excerpt, Kennedy’s point of view is that the United States should continue space exploration.

Which options effectively explain how Kennedy uses an appeal to pathos in the excerpt to convey his point of view?

Kennedy implies that if the United States does not remain the leader, space science will be used for the wrong purposes. 

Kennedy implies that the United States is the only country that will keep space science peaceful. 

500

How do you Revise for Tone?

by asking:

• Is the tone appropriate for an academic audience?
• Do I use punctuation or sentence structure that seems appropriately formal?
• Does the writing seem as if it belongs in a professional presentation or a casual conversation?

Unit 4

100

Candor. What does it mean?

frankness or honesty

200

And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed.

What is Obama’s purpose in choosing the metaphor of something being “frayed”?

He is illustrating that long-term unity is an illusion that arises in times of need but that could be revealed as false in times of security.

300

• problem-and-solution: one advantage, one solution, the next
• cause-and-effect: because of, consequently, therefore, leads to, since
• comparison-and-contrast: like, similar, similarly, both, also, and in the same way; unlike, different, but, in contrast, on the other hand
• proposition-and-support: therefore, one reason, the next reason
• chronological: in a year, in a day, an hour earlier, before, after, next, later, first, then, finally
• sequential: first, second, next, then

Why would you need these common transitional words and phrases?

For Organizational Structure

400

Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech “The Meaning of Liberty.”

The Declaration of Independence was written in Philadelphia; it was adopted in this historic building by which we stand. I have just had the privilege of sitting in the chair of the great man who presided over the deliberations of those who gave the declaration to the world. My hand rests at this moment upon the table upon which the declaration was signed. We can feel that we are almost in the visible and tangible presence of a great historic transaction.

Which rhetorical feature does Wilson use in the excerpt?

Allusion

500

Identify the claim from this written statement:
"I am not having a fun time and this was the worse."

by Lilith Tripajayakorn, Making a Jeopardy board, 2021.

Lilith is not having a good time while creating the Jeopardy board because her grade is on the line and her parents might absolutely destroy her if she doesn't get higher than 80% as a final grade.

Unit 5

100

In which sentence is the word fruition used correctly?

• The fruition came unexpectedly.
• I hope my final grade will fruition easily. 
• The fruition jeopardy quiz was unexpected. 
• I hope my final grade will come to fruition.

I hope my final grade will come to fruition.

200

Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan’s essay “The National Organization for Women’s 1966 Statement of Purpose.”

NOW is dedicated to the proposition that women, first and foremost, are human beings, who, like all other people in our society, must have the chance to develop their fullest human potential.

Which option best describes the purpose of this statement?

to link the argument for women’s equality to the founding ideas of the nation

300

How many counterclaims can you have in an argumentive essay?

You must address at least one counterclaim and rebuttal in your argument essay.

400

Read the excerpt from the article “Bias in the Media.”

Consider the ideas of Walter Lippman, one of the most influential journalists of the 20th century. Beginning his career as a reporter, Lippman later became a speechwriter, a magazine and newspaper editor, an author, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and one of the most widely respected political journalists in the world. Lippman was born in 1889 and so came of age as a journalist as World War I unfolded. He became disillusioned with what he saw as the “error, illusion, and misinterpretation” of news reporting during war time. He critiqued the tendency of the press to present propaganda as truth and referred to this practice as the “manufacture of consent.”

Which option most accurately explains how inductive reasoning is used to convey the argument that journalists were engaging in the “manufacture of consent”?

Inductive reasoning is used to show what Walter Lippman discovered based on his observations of “error, illusion, and misinterpretation” in the reporting of news.

500

Using Slang in an Argumentative essay is allowed, true or false?

False, unless it is found in evidence that is quoted.