Title: Powerpoint Jeopardy
1Powerpoint Jeopardy
2Type of sentence? Francis went to the store
yesterday. (10 points)
3Type of sentence? David went down the slide
and then went on the swings. (20 points)
4Type of sentence? While playing at the park,
Susan fell and hurt her knee so badly that she
had to get stitches. (30 points)
5Type of sentence? I firmly believe that
democracy is important, so I support
elections. (40 points)
6Type of sentence? Since falling and breaking her
leg, Rachel has been afraid of mountain
climbing, especially on rainy days. (50 points)
7Active or passive? The lights were left on all
night. (10 points)
8What is a nominalization? (20 points)
9Revise this sentence to eliminate
wordiness. There was considerable erosion of the
land from the floods. (30 points)
10Revise the following sentence to eliminate
wordiness. Their cessation of hostilities
was because of personnel losses. (40 points)
11List four things you need to avoid to eliminate
wordiness from your writing. (50 points)
12Revise 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)
13What is antithesis? (20 points)
14Give an example of antimetabole. (30 points)
15What is a zeugma? (40 points)
16Create a sentence that contains parallel clauses
and parallel phrases. (50 points)
17What does Ms. Ratliff call a powerful closing
line of an essay? (10 points)
18List two effective techniques for an opening
device. (20 points)
19What are the three characteristics of a good
thesis statement? (30 points)
20Explain the destabilizing formula, and come up
with a thesis statement that uses
this formula. (40 points)
21What does SEER stand for? (50 points)
22List the three terms in the rhetorical triangle.
(10 points)
23List the five elements on the bottom of the
rhetorical web. (20 points)
24What are the three elements at the top of the
rhetorical web? (30 points)
25What did Aristotle call logos? (40 points)
26Explain in detail how audience would affect all
five elements on the bottom of the rhetorical
web. (50 points)
27Final 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.