Course+Exam Trivia
20-2 Source Review
Figurative Language
Vocab in Context
Rempel Trivia
100

The one thing you need to literally write Part B 

What is a pencil

100

This man's life experiences inspired the film Catch Me If You Can, and he is played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film! 

Who is Frank Abagnale Jr. 

100

The literary term for verbal sarcasm

What is verbal irony? 

100

Dad's shop was a messy disaster area, a labyrinth of lathes. Its walls were hung with the mounted antlers of deer he'd bagged, forming a makeshift museum of death.

What is a maze? 

100

This class is what Rempel teaches most

What is drama

200

The date, time, and location of our final exam 

Tuesday, June 18th at 1:00PM in Gym 1

200

The name of the boy who falls gravely ill in the film John Q

Who is Mike

200

An implicit, implied, or even hidden comparison between two unrelated things that share some characteristics in common

What is a metaphor? 

200

"For the most part we are an intemperate people: we eat too much when we can, drink too much, indulge our senses too much.

What is a lack of self control? 

200

The names of Rempel's two rabbits

What are Jim and Tofu?

300

The minimum mark you need to achieve in order to be able to upgrade to a Dash 1 English

What is 65%

300

This juror in 12 Angry Men is the first to vote not-guilty and serves as the playwrights self-insert. 

Who is Juror #8

300

Something, usually, an object, that represents something to give it a different meaning that is more complex, deeper, and more significant.

What is symbolism? 

300

"Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our screaming.

What is a swirling wind? 

300

Rempel's alma mater

What is the University of Alberta

400

The two 30 level core classes you need to take in order to graduate

What are English and Social Studies

400

This character in the novel Of Mice and Men speaks the last line of dialogue, "Whadd'ya suppose is eatin' them two?"

Who is Carlson

400

A phrase or expression that has a meaning other than the literal meaning; is hard to understand if you are not from the region the phrase is from

What is an idiom? 

400

In resenting progress and change, a man lays himself open to censure.

What is disapporval or mockery? 

400

The best strategy to focus before a test

What is take a deep breath and drink cold water

500

The three categories you are marked on in English 20-2 throughout the semester

Test comprehension, text creation, representation

500

This famous author went on to write stories like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Witches. We studied an early short story of his!

Who is Roald Dahl

500

A situation that plays out in a way opposite to that intended

What is Situational Irony? 

500

At work he was known to punctuate his conversations with brief wild laughs and gusts of inchoate enthusiasm and subsequent embarrassment, expressed by a sudden plunging of the hands into his pockets

What is sudden or unexpected? 

500

How long Rempel has been at Hunting 

What is 3 years

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