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Rules of Play Each team will send a representative to the hot seat for four consecutive questions, and rotate

Rules of Play Each team will send a representative to the hot seat for four consecutive questions, and rotate There will be four categories, and one Final Jeopardy Final Jeopardy will involve a wager to determine teams’ final winnings . $200. What are personification and alliteration?.

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Rules of Play Each team will send a representative to the hot seat for four consecutive questions, and rotate

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  1. Rules of Play • Each team will send a representative to the hot seat for four consecutive questions, and rotate • There will be four categories, and one Final Jeopardy • Final Jeopardy will involve a wager to determine teams’ final winnings

  2. $200 What are personification and alliteration? Name the two literary devices used in this line from “The Tell-Tale Heart”: The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.

  3. $400 What is the climax? The highest point of excitement and action in a short story

  4. $600 What is a simile? The literary device exemplified in this line: Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard

  5. $800 What is a metaphor? Comparison of two things, not using like or as (Give an example!)

  6. $1000 What is sanity? A theme that is common to of each of these short stories: The Tell-Tale Heart Lamb to the Slaughter

  7. $200 Who is Theseus? This Greek hero triumphed over the minotaur, but failed to fulfill his father’s request to change the colour of his sail upon his return home

  8. $400 1. She was left on a mountaintop to die after birth 2. A she-bear suckled and cared for her until hunters found and raised her 3. She learned to fight and hunt as a bear would. 4. She was later reunited with her father. Two facts about Atalanta

  9. $600 What is Narcissus? The moral is not to be vain! The Greek myth depicted by this image (and its moral)

  10. $800 Midas (The Golden Touch) I guess it’s pretty awesome… This commercial is a subtle reference to a certain myth

  11. 1000$ • Son of Venus and Mars • Accidentally fell in love with Psyche while on a mission for Venus Two facts about the mythological figure who inspired this character from a very short-lived TV series

  12. $200 What is Cairnholm? The name of the island to which Jacob travels on his quest for the truth about his grandfather’s past

  13. $400 What is romance?/Who is Emma? Jacob fulfills the ______ element of the Greek heroic pattern by developing feelings for _________

  14. $600 Answers vary. For example: Overcoming obstacles, discovery, belonging Two themes of the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children other than trust and/or friendship

  15. $800 What are birth, destiny, quest, journey, romance, and reward. Identify all six elements of the Greek heroic pattern.

  16. 1000$ Answers vary. For example, Jacob sets out on a quest to discover the truth about his grandfather. His reward is the sense of belonging and family he receives from the peculiars. Explain how Jacob fulfills two elements of the Greek heroic pattern

  17. $200 Cassius initially thinks that Antony should be killed along with Caesar; Cassius does not want Antony to speak immediately after Caesar’s death Evidence to support the position that Cassius possesses better judgement than Brutus

  18. $400 Antony /Portia - appeal to emotion Cassius – appeal to emotion and powers of logic A character who demonstrates powers of persuasion, and the technique that he/she uses

  19. $600 Brutus says Antony shall receive the “benefit of Caesar’s dying” without realizing the truth of this statement. Antony wins over the crowd and proceeds to destroy the conspirators. Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,though he had no hand in his death, shall receivethe benefit of his dying, a place in thecommonwealth; as which of you shall not?  How do these lines demonstrate foreshadowing of future action in the play?

  20. $800 Antony defends Caesar’s honour in his eulogy and avenges his death Imagine that Antony is accused of being a disloyal friend to Caesar. This is ludicrous, you say! Why? What evidence is there to prove otherwise? Friends, Romans, countrymen...

  21. $1000 “You saucy fellow.” “You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!” “Thou naughty knave!” “You are a savage spectacle.” Trash talk: Recite a nasty Shakespearean insult from Julius Caesar

  22. Respond to the following question, and determine your wager Several stories that we have read this semester feature an element of gore or violence. List all of the stories that you consider to be gory/violent and their authors!

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