Mind Bender
Triangulate
Picture This
Silent Theater
Eye-Dentify
Who am I?
100

When spealers use statistics in an argument, they are appealing to this

logos

100

Achilles's anger issues

MacBeth's unchecked ambition

Gatsby's idealistic obsession with the past

hamartia (tragic flaw)

100

Bonus: Choose an artist from your team. Guess the concept in less than 30 seconds to earn the points

gustatory

100

Choose an actor:  You will have 30 seconds to act out this concept:

catharsis

100

Eye-dentify the technique and sentence structure

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

anaphora

parallel structure

100

You have 30 seconds to write a brief statement that _____ would say.

Odysseus

200

This scene describes which literary concept? 

Sarah defiantly raised her protest sign in the town square, she felt the weight of disapproving stares from her neighbors and the approaching footsteps of law enforcement

man vs society

200

two eggs

a yellow car

a green light

The Great Gatsby

200

Daily Double:  You have 30 seconds to draw this concept; the team that guesses it first wins the points.

foil character

200

ALL PLAY

Both teams have 30 seconds to make a list of as many tone words as you can.

Share Time

200

One difference between a text message and _____ is that a text message isn't formal.

epistle

200

You will have 30 seconds to write down something Dante would say.

Share time!

300

In the movie "Jaws," the audience sees a shark fin moving through the water towards unsuspecting swimmers on the beach. The beachgoers are happily splashing in the waves, completely unaware of the danger lurking beneath the surface. This scene is an example of _____________.

dramatic irony

300

first person narrative

portion of a person's life

highly emotional and reflective

a memoir

300

You will have 30 seconds to draw (pictionary style) of:

man vs self

300

Choose one actor.  You will have 30 seconds to act of the concept.

in media res

300

F Scott Fitzgerald wrote _____ in during this jazzy decade ______.

The Great Gatsby and the 1920s

300

Choose an actor!

You will have 30 seconds to say statements or act

like the person your teacher shows you. 

Dr. TJ Ekleberg n

400

What figure of speech is used here?

What do you call an alligator in a vest?  An investigator!"


pun

400

the occasion

the author's purpose

the audience

rhetorical situtaiton 

400

Chose an artist: You have 30 seconds to draw this concept 

foreshadowing

400

You have 30 seconds to act out this concept:

Epic

400

ALl Play:

You have 30 seconds to list as many books/stories/speeches/plays you have read in school (majority of group read it)

share the list

400

I survived Auschwitz and warned you about the perils of indifference.  

Elie Wiesel 

500

BOTH TEAMS:  You have 30 seconds to find a metaphor or a simile in the poetry book on your desk.

share time

500

rhythm and rhyme

3 of a kind

In Dante's time

tercet

500

You have 30 seconds to draw this quote from literature.

"Bubble bubble toil and trouble."

500

You have 30 seconds to ACT OUT this concept:

parallel sentence structure

500
To sum up a piece of writing you might write down the argument's main points in one of these.
precis
500

I am a coming of age novel.

bildungsroman 

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