Show:
Reading
Paragraphs
Plagiarism
Lit Terms
Wild Card
100
The five elements of the short story.
What are plot, character, conflict, theme, and setting?
100
The parts of a paragraph.
What are topic sentence, three independent supporting details, and concluding sentence?
100
The definition of plagiarism.
What is purposefully or accidentally misrepresenting someone else's words, ideas, pictures or other material as your own by not attributing the source or using quotation marks.
100
When the narrator of a story can clearly not be trusted because of insanity, age, or other incapacitation.
What is an unreliable narrator?
100
The name of the author of Night.
What is Elie Wiesel?
200
The author of Maus.
Who is Art Spiegelman?
200
The use of words or phrases that evoke a sensory response in a reader, especially in a descriptive paragraph.
What is imagery?
200
The consequences of plagiarism at our school.
What are a parent meeting with Ms. Heide, a zero, the Honor Council, and a permanent mark of your record reported to colleges, loss of respect from teachers and yourself, plus expulsion if it continues?
200
A thing or word that stands in or represents a larger idea in a story.
What is a symbol?
200
The Greeks believed that Zeus would be angry if you did not respect this custom.
What is hospitality?
300
The place where The Odyssey begins...chronologically.
What is Troy?
300
What a descriptive paragraph does and why.
What is give the sensory details of a scene in order to convey a dominant mood, illustrate an idea, or achieve some other purpose?
300
A citation for what kind of source: Fischer, Daniel. Mission Jupiter: The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo Spacecraft. New York: Copernicus, 2001. Print.
What is a print book?
300
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
300
When a symbol appears consistently throughout a work.
What is a motif?
400
The reasons why Poseidon hates Odysseus.
What are he blinded Polyphemus and he built the Trojan Horse?
400
An example of something you might explain in a definition paragraph and why, given the nature of definition paragraphs.
What is love because a definition paragraph explains a complicated, abstract, or controversial term?
400
Plagiarism or not: Original: “The annual rainfall influences a person’s chances of wearing glasses because people squint more on sunny days.” Source: John Webster, online New: The amount of rain that falls in a year can have an effect on whether or not someone wears glasses (Webster).
What is plagiarism? This person has cited the author but has improperly paraphrased. Note how the sentence is exactly the same, except for word choice and missing information.
400
The four types of conflict.
What is man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, and man vs. self?
400
One example of a dynamic character from the stories we have read and why.
Who is: Rainsford, Fortunato, Millicent because s/he experiences a significant change over the course of the story?
500
How Elie's father dies.
What is of dysentery in Buchenwald after the Death March?
500
The equivalent of a topic sentence in an essay.
What is the thesis statement?
500
Definition of paraphrasing and a useful technique.
What is to summarize or re-phrase an author’s ideas in one's own words, paying attention to sentence structure. RCRC: Read it, Close it, Rewrite it, Cite it.
500
The meaning of STEAL and what it is used for.
What is Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks to convey indirect characterization?
500
Similarities and differences between Night and Maus.
What are Holocaust memoirs, violence, imagery, first person narration... and different layers of storytelling, format, purpose: surviving/after surviving?