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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 nine- year-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 PLEAStudent 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 PLEAStudent 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 PLEAStudent 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