Horror Escape Room

Can you find the briefcase?

Literary Devices Escape room

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Introduction

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Use the hints found in your mentor texts to help solve the riddles. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

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At the bottom of paragraph 2 in "Jorje" there is a strong example of...

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

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02

Which of the following lines from "The Danger of a Single Story" is a strong example of hyperbole?

"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."

"What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnearable we are in the face of a story..."

"Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes..."

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03

In the poem "Two Names, Two Worlds", what piece of figurative language is used in line 17?

Litotes

Oxymoron

Allusion

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04

Which of the following is an example from the Oxymoron video?

Quiet Silence

Deafening Silence

Silent Awakening

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This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

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What 2 pieces of figurative language is found in stanza 1 of "My Name"

Onomatopoeia & Alliteration

Personification & Litotes

Analogy & Paradox

Allusion & Hyperbole

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02

Which of the following lines from "Two Names, Two Worlds" is an example of imagery?

"You can find me in parts of a song, en una cancion"

"The smell of freshly mowed grass, autumn leaves..."

My head's in the clouds, my nose in a comic book

"I'm from the struggle for broken dreams"

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03

In "Names" from The Poet X, which line has an example of a metaphor?

Line 12

Line 5

Line 24

Line 23

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04

Which analogy was used in the video?

"Her hair was a silk ribbon floating in the breeze."

"Democracy is like a rising tide..."

"The eyes of the boy welled with tears that fell down his cheeks.

"Freedom in America is a wounded bird."

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You found a secret message

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

01

...Keep playing

02

...One more

03

Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

224

Enter the secret code

Code

"Our stories don't have an audience, our experiences won't resonate in the mainstream, our voices are too big a financial risk" Is an example of...

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Oxymoron

Euphemism

Paradox

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Which of the following lines from "The Danger of a Single Story" is an example of a paradox?

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"But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye, I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature."

"...That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."

"Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

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Which of the following lines from "Jorge" is an example of a paradox?

03

"I hope to carve our my own personal history, one just as worthy as that of the famous Geroges the world has seen."

"When this happens, I retreat into my American persona."

"My name helps me keep one foot in the past, and the other in the future."

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A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

Congratulations

You have recovered all the memories of the ghost! What is the message it left behind? Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Your mission is complete

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