Rules of PlayRules 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

Short StopIt’s all Greek

to me

The Not Normal Novel

That’s a (Caesar)

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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.

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What is the climax?

The highest point of

excitement and action in a short story

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What is a simile?

The literary device exemplified in this line:

Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard

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What is a metaphor?

Comparison of two things, not using

like or as

(Give an example!)

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What is sanity?

A theme that is common to of each of these short stories:

The Tell-Tale Heart

Lamb to the Slaughter

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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

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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

$600What is Narcissus?

The moral is not to be vain!

The Greek myth depicted by this image (and its moral)

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Midas (The Golden Touch)

This commercial is

a subtle reference to a certain myth

I guess it’s pretty

awesome…

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1. Son of Venus and Mars

2. 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

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What is Cairnholm?

The name of the island to which Jacob travels on his quest for the truth about his grandfather’s past

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What is romance?/Who is Emma?

Jacob fulfills the ______ element of the Greek

heroic pattern by developing feelings for

_________

$600Answers 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

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What are birth, destiny, quest, journey, romance, and reward.

Identify all six elements of the Greek heroic pattern.

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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

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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

$400Antony /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

$600Brutus 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?

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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...

$1000““You saucy fellow.” You saucy fellow.” ““You blocks, you stones, you worse You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!” than senseless things!” ““Thou naughty knave!” Thou naughty knave!” ““You are a savage spectacle.” You are a savage spectacle.”

Trash talk:

Recite a nasty Shakespearean insult from

Julius Caesar

Respond to the following Respond to the following question, and determine question, and determine

your wageryour wager

Several stories that we have read this semester feature an Several stories that we have read this semester feature an element of gore or violence. element of gore or violence. List all of the stories that you consider to be gory/violent List all of the stories that you consider to be gory/violent and and their authors!their authors!