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What is: Repetition
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand..." In this quote, Thoreau uses this rhetorical strategy
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What is: Illusional
Thoreau describes the foundations of our society as this synonym for fictional
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What is: Chapter two
The chapter this selection was published in which chapter?
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What is: To live meanly
Identify the characteristic that establishes the simile between humans and ants
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Teams will guess a number between one and ten to determine who chooses the first category.
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What is: Rhetorical question
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?" Thoreau uses this rhetorical strategy in this quote
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What is: Simplicity
Given the choice between simplicity and detail, Thoreau would likely choose this
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What is: To isolate himself from society
The reasoning behind Thoreau living on Walden Pond
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What is: "Let us"
Identify the anaphora Thoreau uses in paragraph seven
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After the question has been read, the first team to raise their hand is chosen to answer the question.
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What is: Personification
"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature" Thoreau uses "Nature" as a proper noun, with a capital N, using this strategy
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What is: Uncertainty
The comparison between our lives and a German Confederacy is meant to portray this state of mind
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What is: Life In the Woods or Walden
The book written by Thoreau about his 2 years in isolation in nature
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What is: "...life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale..."
Recite the simile in the first few sentences of paragraph six
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Only the team answering the question can talk! They will have 20 seconds. Any other teams seen talking will lose 100 points.
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What is: Metaphor
"Time is but the stream I go afishing in." Name this rhetorical strategy.
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What is: Nature
The capitalization of this word portrays the monumental affect it has on our lives
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Who is: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The friend and neighbor who greatly influenced Thoreau
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What is: Metaphor
This rhetorical device is used in the last paragraph to describe "time"
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If the team answers incorrectly, another team may steal the question and the incorrect team loses that point value.
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What is: Chiasmus
"We do not ride on the railroad, it rides upon us." Name this rhetorical strategy
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What is: Time and a stream
This comparison at the end of the essay provides the affect of both a moral realization as well as what is currently happening to Thoreau
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What is: Transcendentalism
The social movement Thoreau was an influential leader in
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What is: Antithesis
The rhetorical strategy used in paragraph one that Thoreau uses to explain why he went into the woods
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Teams may not answer a question incorrectly and then try to steal the same question later! YOU MUST answer in the form of a question, Jeopardy style! Otherwise it will be counted wrong!!!
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