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Jeopardy: English Style

Jeopardy: English Style. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. Grammar. Rhetorical Devices. British Novels. American Novels. Famous

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Jeopardy: English Style

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  1. Jeopardy: English Style Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Grammar Rhetorical Devices British Novels American Novels Famous Plays 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. A rule saying the sentence "Government officials said that they are correcting the problem” is improper.

  5. What is inconsistent verb tenses?

  6. A rule saying the sentence “Each student must clean their own room” is improper.

  7. What is subject/verb agreement

  8. The word that makes the following sentence “I drug myself out of bed this morning before heading to class” improper.

  9. What is “drug” (It should be dragged).

  10. A rule stating why the sentence “It looks like it will rain” is improper.

  11. What is never use “like” before a clause

  12. The word/phrase that makes “I’m going with you on vacation, aren’t I?” improper.

  13. What is “Aren’t I”. (It should be Am I not”)

  14. The device used in the following sentence: “Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.”

  15. What is alliteration?

  16. The device used in the following sentence: • “The water droplets plop into the pond.”

  17. What is Onomatopoeia?

  18. The device used in the following sentence: “The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.”

  19. What is personification?

  20. The device in the following sentence: “It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets.”

  21. What is hyperbole?

  22. The device used in the following sentence: “His parents bought him a new set of wheels.”

  23. What is Synecdoche?

  24. This novel is about five sisters trying to marry into wealth, whose lives are turned upside down when a wealthy man and his best friend, named Mr. Bingley, arrive in their town

  25. What is Pride and Prejudice?

  26. This novel is about a young orphan being raised by her cruel aunt who sends her to a boarding school who becomes a governess and falls in love with Edward Rochester.

  27. What is Jane Eyre?

  28. This novel is about an insane medical student who discovers how to make people invisible.

  29. What is The Invisible Man?

  30. This novel is about a man who is hurdled into the future by his own contraption where he finds two races-the Eloi and the Morlocks.

  31. What is The Time Machine?

  32. This novel is about a man who seeks revenge, who rose in his adopted family but then was reduced to the status of a servant after running away when the love of his life married another.

  33. What is Wuthering Heights?

  34. This American novel is about a guy who fled his prep school and holes up in New York City to rail against adult phoniness while remaining innocent.

  35. What is Catcher in the Rye?

  36. This novel is about the Joad family in the Great Depression who hold onto their dignity through their hardships.

  37. What is The Grapes of Wrath?

  38. This novel centers in the infamous bombing of Dresden, and the odyssey through time as the characters try to search for the meaning of their deepest fears.

  39. What is Slaughterhouse Five?

  40. This novel is about a girl named Caroline Meeber who takes a journey from the depths of industrial labor to the heists of fame.

  41. What is Sister Carrie?

  42. This novel is about a group of shipwrecked boys who have to learn to survive on an island to face each other as they struggle with power, control, and starvation.

  43. What is The Lord of the Flies?

  44. "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once”: this quote is from this play.

  45. What is Julius Caesar from William Shakespeare?

  46. “Every easy choice today will have its consequences tomorrow”: This quote is from this play.

  47. What is Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley?

  48. “I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce you”: This quote is from this play.

  49. What is Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf by Edward Albee?

  50. "And then it started like a guilty thing/Upon a fearful summons“: This quote is from this play.

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