Gothic Literature
Rhetoric
Social Media Literacy
Poetry/ Novels in Verse
Romeo & Juliet
100

Name one difference between Gothic Literature and Horror genres.

*teacher determines if correct*

100

Rhetoric is often used in speeches, commercials, and advertisements. This is the purpose of rhetoric in these examples.

to persuade you of something

100

"Cheap fakes" are the name given to things that are clearly altered (edited) to show something untrue online. This is the name of high-quality edited photos and videos, that are often expensive to make and hard to detect. (hint! they rhyme)

deep fakes

100
True or false: In order to be considered a poem, a written piece must either rhyme or be written in a specific shape

false

100

The two feuding families the story is based on.

Montagues and the Capulets

200

This famous author is one of the best known Gothic writers, famous for stories such as The Raven, Annabel Lee, and The Tell-Tale Heart. *Answer must be full name*

Edgar Allen Poe

200

If someone is including "Logos" in a speech, they are including details that do this.

Using logic, data, scientific facts, etc.

200

Information that is misleading, untrue, or considered to be "fake news" is categorized under this name.

misinformation

200

True or false: When reading a novel in verse, you stop/ pause at each space or end of line of text on the page, even when it is in the middle of the sentence.

false - you read with the punctuation like you would with anything else

200

Romeo is doing this when he listens in on Juliet speaking aloud to herself, while he is hiding in her family's garden and she doesn't know he is there.


DAILY DOUBLE if you can tell us what was Juliet saying when Romeo was listening to her

eavesdropping  


BONUS: she wished he was not a Montague because his name makes their relationship complicated

300

Name the three types of irony discussed in The Cask of Amontillado.

verbal, situational, dramatic

300

This is the type of rhetoric that includes feelings, usually appealing to the emotions of others.



pathos

300

This is the name for websites/ apps tracking your data and pushing targeted adds and showing content in a priority they think most shows what you want to see.


DAILY DOUBLE if you can say why this can be a problem when using social media.

algorithm


BONUS: must mention something about limiting what you see, not getting full story, not hearing different opinions, echo chambers, etc.

300

This is what we call writing when it is descriptive of how a scene or object looks, with the idea that it helps us to see it in our minds.

imagery

300

In the play, this character was the one to deliver the incorrect news to Romeo informing him of Juliet's death, causing Romeo to return to Mantua with poison and take his own life.

Balthazar/ Romeo's servant

400

In this story, Billy Weaver is a young man traveling for work who decides to stay at a Bed and Breakfast one rainy night, after seeing a cozy fire in the living room and a cute little dog curled up by it. 

DAILY DOUBLE if you can name what he said the tea served to him tasted like.

The Landlady


BONUS: bitter almonds

400

This is the type of rhetoric where a reliable and well-known source, celebrity, or expert shares their opinion/ expresses their support about what is being said.

ethos

400

This is the name of a poem written with a word going vertically (up and down) and other words/ phrases intersecting with each letter written horizontally (side to side).

acrostic

400

Shakespeare often wrote in a pattern with a rhythm, where every other syllable had emphasis, called iambic pentameter. It includes this many syllables per line.

10

500

This is the term used when we talk about whether or not the reader can trust the person telling the story, especially important in Gothic Literature. (Do we believe what they are saying, can we trust they are telling the truth?)

narrator reliability

500

According to the movie The Social Dilemma, we learned many social media apps have added a feature where the news feed will instantly update/ shuffle by swiping up. They did this to mimic the addictive action of doing this activity, often done in casinos

pulling lever on a slot machine

500
This means the implied, or culturally relevant meaning of a word. Not what the dictionary definition states.

connotation

500

In Shakespeare's plays, this is when a character talks directly to the audience and the other characters cannot hear this character talking to the audience. 

aside