Powerpoint Jeopardy

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Powerpoint Jeopardy
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Type of sentence? Francis went to the store
yesterday. (10 points)
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Type of sentence? David went down the slide
and then went on the swings. (20 points)
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Type of sentence? While playing at the park,
Susan fell and hurt her knee so badly that she
had to get stitches. (30 points)
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Type of sentence? I firmly believe that
democracy is important, so I support
elections. (40 points)
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Type of sentence? Since falling and breaking her
leg, Rachel has been afraid of mountain
climbing, especially on rainy days. (50 points)
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Active or passive? The lights were left on all
night. (10 points)
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What is a nominalization? (20 points)
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Revise this sentence to eliminate
wordiness. There was considerable erosion of the
land from the floods. (30 points)
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Revise the following sentence to eliminate
wordiness. Their cessation of hostilities
was because of personnel losses. (40 points)
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List four things you need to avoid to eliminate
wordiness from your writing. (50 points)
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Revise this sentence to make it parallel. The
dictionary can be used for these purposes to
find word meanings, pronunciations, correct
spellings, and looking up irregular verbs. (10
points)
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What is antithesis? (20 points)
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Give an example of antimetabole. (30 points)
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What is a zeugma? (40 points)
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Create a sentence that contains parallel clauses
and parallel phrases. (50 points)
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What does Ms. Ratliff call a powerful closing
line of an essay? (10 points)
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List two effective techniques for an opening
device. (20 points)
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What are the three characteristics of a good
thesis statement? (30 points)
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Explain the destabilizing formula, and come up
with a thesis statement that uses
this formula. (40 points)
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What does SEER stand for? (50 points)
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List the three terms in the rhetorical triangle.
(10 points)
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List the five elements on the bottom of the
rhetorical web. (20 points)
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What are the three elements at the top of the
rhetorical web? (30 points)
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What did Aristotle call logos? (40 points)
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Explain in detail how audience would affect all
five elements on the bottom of the rhetorical
web. (50 points)
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Final Jeopardy

• During the course of the past financial year, the
  leaders of the corporation decided to participate
  in a discussion pertaining to their goals for the
  next year, so they chose to take their goals
  through a revision that would ultimately improve
  their product.