1. QUOTE: The full actual quote, "in quotation marks" (a tenth of a point penalty for omitting the quotation marks!)
2. ATTRIBUTION: either the work from which the quote derives, OR, The character who speaks the quote. Either/or will do it. No extra credit for both, but I for one will be pleased.
You must include the whole amount of the quote that is being paraphrased in your answer. Completeness is all. A sentence or two too much? No problem. One word too little? Situation. If you left out part of the quote being paraphrased, it's not a correct answer.
SCORING:
- 1 full point for the first correct answer. The first correct answer counts, even if the quotation marks are omitted! However the penalty will be levied.
- Half a point (0.5) for all subsequent correct answers.
- Zero points (0.0) for partially correct answers (answers that get the quote right but omit the work/character - or that name the right work/character, but omit the quote).
Question will be posted 9am each Wednesday.
Answers will not be posted before 5pm of the day in question.
All correct answers count until close of scoring. Scoring remains open until the first correct answer is posted. Translation: if it's past 5pm and I still haven't posted a correct answer, you can still score.
NO CREDIT FOR WRONG ANSWERS. One word wrong = "WRONG ANSWER." Punctuation I may be lenient on, depending how bad it is. However I expect you to get every damn word of the quote right, archaic or not - dead on. Misspellings are likely to be lethal.
The skill lies in spotting and recognizing the quote. Nobody expects you to have Shakespeare memorized verbatim. Don't disgorge some slap-dash approximation from memory! Double-check yourself against the actual quote, and include the actual quote.
3 comments:
FOOTNOTE 1: Necessary corollary to the scoring rules. The question is to be up by 9am Pacific. If NOON PACIFIC comes and goes with no question, then the FIRST PERSON to post a complete Shakespeare quote with play or speaker/character attribution on the current top/most current post on the blog wins the day. Not only that, but my buddy Rob will have to paraphrase the quote they chose.
Basically this keeps everyone very honest.
FOOTNOTE 2: It's possible that with a dude as breadth-y and depth-y as the Bard, it could come to pass that there could be more than one correct answer to Rob's rephrase. If there are two passages that both present a bang-on match to the rephrase, I'm inclined to consider both as correct answers and award full points to both. But it's going to have to be a damn persuasive match for me to award it to the one that wasn't the original one we were thinking of!
Still, what the hell. Sometimes it strikes me that Mr. Shakespeare was given to hitting certain themes pretty frequently, in strikingly similar phrase. So I leave the possibility open for more than one dead-right answer.
FOOTNOTE 3: Footnotes one and two were added to the rules practically from the get-go, but I decided later to move 'em down to the comments. Less clutter.
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