Double Jeopardy round for Phineas and Poetry
Double Jeopardy
Persuasive
Writing
Grammar
& Writing
Sound
Devices
Poetry
Jeopardy
$200 Answer from
Writing
Persuasive
Ethos in persuasive writing:
According to Fleischman, Phineas was lucky because “The tamping iron missed a number of key areas on either side of the brain that control important functions, including Broca’s and
Wernicke’s areas, plus the motor strip and the
$200 Question from Persuasive
Writing
What is an attempt to make an argument seem credible (believable)?
$400 Answer from
Writing
Persuasive
Pathos in persuasive writing:
“Phineas was lucky because “He died with his family around him, the only people who knew both the old and
$400 Question from
Persuasive Writing
What is an attempt at persuasion through emotional appeals?
$600 Answer from
Writing
Persuasive
The logos in persuasive writing:
Phineas was lucky because “He found a way to live, working with horses. He took care of himself. He saw the world. He died with his family around him . . . And he drove a six-horse stagecoach” (Fleischman 75).
$600 Question from
Persuasive Writing
What is an attempt at persuasion through logic? The argument makes sense.
$800 Answer from
Writing
Persuasive
The opposing view:
“It [the accident] changed him [Phineas] into something else, and yet Phineas figured out how to live as that new person for eleven years.
He was limited in ways that are important to all human beings, but he found a way to live, working with horses” Fleischman 75).
$800 Question from
Persuasive Writing
What is the counterargument?
Students can earn an additional $800 if they can explain how Fleischman refuted the counterargument in this passage.
$1000 Answer from
Persuasive Writing
The T in the acronym ACT for the introduction paragraph of a persuasive essay:
Although the tamping-iron accident significantly shortened Phineas’s life, he was lucky for the following reasons: he was still able to travel to various parts of the world, was able to work with animals and children, and was not dependent upon
others to care for him for most of his life.
$1000 Question from
Persuasive Writing
What is the thesis statement?
Students can earn an additional $1,000 if they can create their own persuasive and reasonable thesis statement— equipped with a clear argument, recognition of the counterargument, and supporting reasons that would outline body paragraphs.
$200 Answer from Grammar &
Writing
A way to make the following sentences into a compound sentence that flows together without any indicated pauses for the reader:
“I deleted the e-mail. It was inappropriate.
$200 Question from Grammar and Writing
What is the following correction: replace the period after the first sentence with a semicolon.
$400 Answer from Grammar and
Writing
A way to correct the following sentence:
Go to the store and buy three things; bread, milk, and peanut butter.
$400 Question from Grammar &
Writing
What is the following correction?
Replace the semicolon with a colon.
The team may earn $400 if it can explain why this correction is needed.
$600 Answer from Grammar &
Writing
The way to correct the following sentence:
After school ended; I went to track practice.
$600 Question from Grammar and Writing
What is the following correction?
Replace the semicolon with a comma.
The team may earn $600 if it can explain why this correction is needed.
$800 Answer from Grammar &
Writing
A way to correct the following list:
I’m so busy that I have something to do almost every day: a track meet on Monday, April 12, which will likely last all evening, a teleconference with Third
Battalion, 395 th Regiment on Tuesday, church with my parents in Duncan, Oklahoma on Wednesday, etc.
$800 Question from Grammar &
Writing
What is the following correction? I’m so busy that
I have something to do almost every day: a track meet on Monday, April 12, which will likely last all evening; a teleconference with Third Battalion,
395 th Regiment on Tuesday; church with my parents in Duncan, Oklahoma on Wednesday; etc.
$1000 Answer from Grammar &
Writing
A way to correct the following sentence:
The day grew hot, we took off our jackets.
$1000 Question from Grammar &
Writing
What is the following correction?
Replace the comma with a semicolon.
The team can earn an additional
$1,000 if it can explain another way to make the run-on sentence into a compound sentence.
$200 Answer from
Sound Devices
The word that best completes the following analogy:
“I could eat a million of these!” : hyperbole ::
“wallet won’t withstand” : _________.
$200 Question from
Sound
Devices
What is alliteration?
$400 Answer from
Sound Devices
The repetition of consonant sounds:
“Sta nd behi nd my ki nd frie nd
.”
$400 Question from
Sound
Devices
What is consonance?
$600 Answer from
Sound Devices
Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words: “Hear the m e llow w e dding b e lls.”
$600 Question from
Sound
Devices
What is assonance?
$800 Answer from
Sound Devices
The repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or clauses in order to make a point (for emphasis):
“From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—/For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore—/Nameless here for evermore” (Poe 10-12).
$800 Question from
Sound
Devices
What is repetition?
$1000 Answer from
Sound Devices
The pattern of rhyme at the ends of the lines within a poem:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Flowers will die,
But never will my love for you.
$1000 Question from
Sound
Devices
What is the rhyme scheme?
An additional $1,000 will be awarded if the team can indicate the rhyme scheme within the stanza on the previous slide.
$200 Answer from Poetry
A humorous, five-line verse that is written in a particular rhythm; the rhyme scheme is often AABBA.
$200 Question from Poetry
What is a limerick?
$400 Answer from Poetry
Narrative poems, often featuring much action and dialogue but little description, that are meant to be sung:
He said to his friend, “If the British march / By land or sea from the town to-night, / Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch / Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— / One if by land, and two if by sea;
(Longfellow 5-9).
$400 Question from Poetry
What is a ballad?
$600 Answer from Poetry
Occurs when one word in a line of poetry rhymes with another word in that same line:
“Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! / Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!”
(Poe 99-100).
$600 Answer from Poetry
What is internal rhyme?
$800 Answer from Poetry
A poem that has some sort of pattern, rhythm, or rhyme
$800 Question from Poetry
What is a traditional or structured poem?
$1000 Answer from Poetry
A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase in relation to the first letter of the other lines:
In a night bright with hope,
Hate fades like a distant nightmare.
All across the world a
Variety of souls, voices lifted in unison,
Echo
A
Dream—dreamt decades ago—now
Reignited, revived by those
Ever-determined souls, who believe
A dream
Must become—reality.
$1000 Question from Poetry
What is an acrostic?
