Irony Jeopardy

1. Irony Jeopardy Name the Term Give the Definition Scenarios $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

2. Make a shot from one desk back. The starting point of an argument. 1 - $100

3. 1 - $200 This is the type of irony known as sarcasm.

4. 1 - $300 When the audience or reader knows more than the characters this is known as what type of irony?

5. 1 - $400 When the outcome of story is the complete opposite of what you would expect and it is a surprise to everyone.

6. 1 - $500 Facts, statistics, expert research which support a claim.

7. 2 - $100 Define bias.

8. 2 - $200 • Define Holocaust. Take a shot from 2 desks back.

9. 2 - $300 Match the term on the left to the correct definition on the right. _____ Prejudice _____ Resiliency _____ Discrimination _____ Segregation • The ability to recover from illness, adversity, or difficult circumstances. • Injury resulting from judgment of another. • Separating people from others based on race, religion, or ethnicity. • Treating people differently based on a belief that a group of people is unequal to others.

10. 2 - $400 • Define propaganda. $200 • How did the Nazis use propaganda in the Holocaust and WWII? $200

11. 2 - $500 • Identify each of the four steps in the staircase. ($100 for each correct step) • How does this graphic help us remember the difference between these four steps? ($100)

12. 3 - $100 “‘Dell,’ said he, ‘let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use right now. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your barrettes. And now suppose you put the pork chops on.’ Suddenly, both Jim and Della began to laugh. How silly they were! Both of them giving up their most prized possessions to make the other happy.’” At the end of The Gift of the Magi, when the audience learns that Jim sold his watch to buy Della the hair barrette she wanted and Della cut and sold her hair to buy the chain for Jim’s watch, this is an example of what type of irony?

13. 3 - $200 Johnathan ___________ everyone living in Idaho when he said, “The whole state knows how to hunt. Kids are issued hunting licenses with their birth certificates.”

14. 3 - $300 (Double Jeopardy) Make a shot from three desks back.

15. 3 - $400 “In speech after speech, Hitler attacked Europe’s Jewish people. He compared them to “vermin,” calling them “subhuman,” and “an inferior race.” (Fighting Hitler: Scholastic Scope, April 18, 2011) Hitler’s comments about European Jews is an example of what? Bystanders Holocaust Antisemitism Bias

16. 4 - $500 “ ‘Mid clogs and children’s sandals, My Mama’s shoes I see! On Sabbath, like the candles, She’d put them on in glee.” Based on this stanza from the poem, “A Wagon of Shoes,” we can guess that the author’s mother was killed in the Holocaust. When readers must make a logical guess and read in between the lines to find a poem’s true meaning it’s called what?

17. 4 - $100 What type of irony is this? Though the police considered him a criminal, and property owners considered him a menace, Noodles considered himself an artist. Noodles would paint huge murals and spray can artwork on everything he could reach, water towers, billboards, shop windows, overpasses, anything he could reach. One day, Noodles spray painted his name in big block letters over the window of the local grocery store. When the store owner arrived the next day, he was heard to utter, “Oh! Thank you. How nice of you, Noodles, to spray paint your name over my store window like that. I really appreciate it.” He never got to thank Noodles personally, though he often wished that he had. FOUL – If you get the correct answer you get to deduct 100 points from another team.

18. 4 - $200 What type of irony is this? Amy was so excited about the Christmas dance that she couldn't concentrate on anything else. The whole week leading up to it, she drew doodles of herself wearing her dress and a sparkling tiara instead of taking notes. The night before the dance, she noticed that she was getting a small pimple on her nose. It was just a tiny little mark, but she imagined herself with a great big pimple, looking like Rudolph the Reindeer in all of the photos, and grew gravely concerned. She ran out to the store and bought a tube of every kind of pimple fighting cream available and then applied large globs of each of them to her nose. She went to bed satisfied that she had done all that she could to fight the blemish. When she woke up, she ran to mirror hoping that the pimple had vanished. As she gazed upon herself in the mirror, she screamed, not because the pimple had vanished, but because a bright red rash covered her entire nose.

19. DOUBLE JEOPARDY $1000 What type of irony is this? Axel was the toughest kid on the playground. He wore a leather jacket with cutoff sleeves and metal studs on the shoulders. He had a Mohawk hairstyle, listened to punk rock music, and hung out with the older kids. He rode his skateboard to school and did nose slides on the bike rack. He whooped on anyone who challenged him, but after a long day of being really tough, Axel’s mommy tucked him into bed at night and he snuggled up tightly with a fluffy pink bear that he called Mr. Tickles.

20. 4 - $400 Make a shot from 4 desks back.

21. DOUBLE JEOPARDY $1000 What type of irony is this? Axel was the toughest kid on the playground. He wore a leather jacket with cutoff sleeves and metal studs on the shoulders. He had a Mohawk hairstyle, listened to punk rock music, and hung out with the older kids. He rode his skateboard to school and did nose slides on the bike rack. He whooped on anyone who challenged him, but after a long day of being really tough, Axel’s mommy tucked him into bed at night and he snuggled up tightly with a fluffy pink bear that he called Mr. Tickles.

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27. What type of irony is this? Amy was so excited about the Christmas dance that she couldn't concentrate on anything else. The night before the dance, she noticed that she was getting a small pimple on her nose. It was just a tiny little mark, but she imagined herself with a great big pimple, looking like Rudolph the Reindeer in all of the photos. She ran out to the store and bought a tube of every kind of pimple fighting cream available and then applied large globs of each of them to her nose and went to bed. When she woke up, she ran to mirror hoping that the pimple had vanished. As she gazed upon herself in the mirror, she screamed, not because the pimple had vanished, but because a bright red rash covered her entire nose. Final Jeopardy