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$200 Answer from Literary
Terms
Something that at first seems to be
ridiculous, but a closer look reveals a
deeper meaning:
Truth is honey that is often bitter.
$200 Question from Literary
Terms
What is a paradox?
$200 bonus if you can identify an
example of a paradox
$400 Answer from Literary
Terms
An idiom whose intent is to be
courteous by making a harsh
circumstance sound more pleasant:
We will all miss your dearly departed
mother.
$400 Question from Literary
Terms
What is a euphemism?
$400 bonus if you can identify another
example of a euphemism and explain why
it’s incorrect to say “an euphemism”
$600 Answer from Literary
Terms
The thoughts and feelings that one associates
with a word:
For example, one might consider
“conversational” to be more positive than
“talkative” because conversations are
encouraged, but people who are talkative are
often punished in our culture because the
talking may not be wanted.
$600 Question from Literary
Terms
What is connotation?
$600 bonus if you can identify two
more words that have similar
denotations but connote different
meanings; explain the implications.
$800 Answer from Literary
Terms
The repetition of consecutive
consonant sounds:
Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects
projectile
$800 Question from Literary
Terms
What is consonance?
Bonus $800 if you can identify the
repeated consonant sounds and cite
another example of consonance
$1000 Answer from Literary
Terms
The repetition of vowel sounds:
The engineer held the steering to steer the
vehicle
$1000 Question from Literary
Terms
What is assonance?
Bonus $1000 if you can identify the
repeated vowel sounds and another
example of assonance
$200 Answer from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
The difference between a title that is
underlined (or italicized when typed) and a
title that is placed in quotation marks
$200 Question from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
What is the fact that underlined (or italicized)
titles indicate that they are the names for a
large work of art, literature, or music, whereas
titles that are set in quotation marks indicate
that they are works within larger works?
$200 bonus if you can name a title that should
be underlined and one that should be in
quotation marks
$400 Answer from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
The needed corrections in the
following sentence: The team of
students have ran further then their
opponents.
$400 Question from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
What is “The team of students has run
farther than its opponents?”
$400 bonus if you can explain each
correction
$600 Answer from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
The needed corrections for the
following sentence:
The 7 year old boy said “You are nineyear-old so you can help me!”
$600 Question from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
What is “The seven-year-old boy said, ‘You
are nine years old, so you can help me!’”?
$600 bonus if you can explain each
correction
$800 Answer from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
The needed corrections for the following
sentence:
Everybody will go home tonight and complete
their homework, none of my students are
exempt from this requirement!
$800 Question from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
What is “Everybody will go home tonight and
complete his or her homework. None of my
students is exempt from this requirement!”?
Bonus $800 if you can explain each correction
$1000 Answer from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
The necessary corrections to the following
sentence:
The theme of the teleplay is that you need to
start thinking before acting, to stop blaming
others, and continue to be neighborly.
$1000 Question from Grammar /
Usage / Mechanics
What is “The theme of this teleplay is that one
needs to start thinking before acting, to stop
blaming others, and to continue being
neighborly”?
Bonus $1,000 if you can explain the corrections.
$200 Answer from PLEA
The theme of “A Retrieved
Reformation” expressed in the form of
a point.
$200 Question from PLEA
Student response:
$200 bonus for another text’s theme
expressed in the form of a point
$400 Answer from PLEA
Paraphrased evidence that supports the
theme for “A Retrieved Reformation”
$400 Question from PLEA
Student response:
$400 bonus for a link that helps bridge
the gap between the point and the
evidence
$600 Answer from PLEA
Analysis for the evidence that supports the
theme of “A Retrieved Reformation”
$600 Question from PLEA
Student response:
$600 bonus if you can paraphrase
another example that supports the
story’s theme
$800 Answer from PLEA
A point that expresses the main idea of
Poe’s The Raven
$800 Question from PLEA
Student response:
$800 if you can paraphrase evidence
that supports the main idea of The
Raven
$1000 Answer from PLEA
Provide a link and analysis for your point
and evidence that express the main idea of
The Raven
$1000 Question from PLEA
Student response:
$1,000 if you can express the main idea of
another text we read this semester and can
back up your point with paraphrased
evidence
$200 Answer from Analogies
Max : Killer Kane :: dynamic character
: ______________.
$200 Question from Analogies
What is a static character?
$200 if you can name both a static and
dynamic character from another text
we read this semester
$400 Answer from Analogies
Direct characterization : indirect
characterization :: information about a
character that requires no inference :
______________
$400 Question from Analogies
What is information about a character
that requires the reader to make an
inference?
$400 bonus if you can name how
writer’s indirectly characterize their
characters
$600 Answer from Analogies
An irregular verb : a regular verb ::
___________ : to a verb that ends in –
ed in its past and past-participle forms.
$600 Answer from Analogies
What is a verb that does not end in –ed
in its past and past participle forms?
$600 if you can name five irregular
verbs and five regular verbs
$800 Answer from Analogies
Drama : _______ :: fiction : science
fiction.
$800 Question from Analogies
What is a teleplay (or any other
subgenre of drama)?
$800 bonus if you can explain this
analogy
$1000 Answer from Analogies
A symbol : an archetype :: Freak’s
ornithopter : ____________.
$1000 Question from Analogies
What is any example of an archetype?
$1,000 if you can explain the analogy
and name another example of an
archetype