Romeo & Juliet
Animal Farm
There Will Come Soft Rains
Persuasive Writing
Daily Doubles: You can't answer these until the other questions are answered.
100

This family feuds with the Montagues.

Who is the Capulet family?

100

The event that symbolizes the Russian Revolution.

What is the rebellion against Mr. Jones?

100

This author wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains."

Who is Ray Bradbury?

100

This part of the TBEACR paragraph explains why the evidence supports the claim and connects back to the thesis.

What is the analysis?

100

When Juliet says, “My only love sprung from my only hate,” Shakespeare uses this paradox to highlight this recurring theme.

What is the conflict between love and hate or the duality of human emotions?

200

This character provides comic relief and is killed in a duel.

Who is Mercutio?

200

Napoleon trains the puppies in secret for this political purpose.

What is to create a loyal, violent secret police force (like the KGB)?

200

The story suggests that even without humans, this will continue.

What is nature?

200

This rhetorical appeal relies on logic, facts, and reasoning to persuade the audience.

What is logos?

200

By the end of the novel, the pigs walk on two legs and dine with humans. This moment symbolizes this idea about political revolutions.

What is that revolutions can become corrupt and resemble the very systems they sought to overthrow?

300

This literary device is used in Romeo’s line: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

What is a metaphor?

300

The animals’ inability to remember the original commandments illustrates this theme.

What is the manipulation of truth through propaganda and historical revisionism?

300

This has happened to the city, leaving it empty.

What is a nuclear disaster or an atomic bomb?

300

Including and refuting a counterclaim in an essay does this for the writer’s argument.

What is showing multiple perspectives?

300

The house’s continued routine in the absence of humans emphasizes this theme about technology.

What is the idea that technology continues blindly, even when humanity has destroyed itself?

400

Juliet uses this figurative speech language to describe Romeo after Tybalt’s death: “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”

What is an oxymoron?

400

Boxer’s eventual betrayal and fate serve as a metaphor for this real-world concept.

What is the exploitation of the working class by authoritarian regimes?

400

The story features no human characters, yet still evokes emotion. This literary technique is used to give the house life and personality.

What is personification?

400

When a writer anticipates and responds to opposing viewpoints, they’re using this persuasive technique.

What is a rebuttal?

400

When a writer appeals to academics, doctors, and those with advanced degrees to persuade the reader, they are primarily using this rhetorical appeal.

What is ethos?

500

This character serves as a dramatic foil to Romeo by mocking love and being skeptical of emotions.

Who is Mercutio?

500

This event in the novel represents the purges and show trials during Stalin’s reign in the Soviet Union.

What are the public confessions and executions of the animals?

500

The author of "There Will Come Soft Rains" includes a poem.  Who is the author of this poem?

Who is Sara Teasdale?

500

A strong body paragraph in the TBEACR format must include these two elements to show critical thinking and depth.

What is a rebuttal and a counterclaim?

500

A writer includes the phrase, “Some argue that school uniforms promote unity, however…” This sentence represents which two parts of the TBEACR structure?

What is the counterclaim and the beginning of the rebuttal?