Language Arts Jeopardy B C D E 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 Final Jeopardy

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What is a antonym/ synonym? A word that is opposite in meaning to another word. / A word that is similar in meaning to another word. What is a antonym/ synonym?

What is a autobiography/ biography? A story that someone writes about his/her own life. / a story someone writes about someone else’s life. What is a autobiography/ biography?

A-300 Writing that describes or gives details intended to give a mental picture or feeling. What is descriptive?

A-400 Conversation between two or more characters or people in writing or speech. What is dialogue?

A-500 To correct the mistake in the conventions (spelling, capitalization, punctuation, ect.); “cleaning house”. What is editing/ edit?

B-100 Writing that explains or tells how to do something. What is expository/ informational?

B-200 A short take used to teach a moral lesson, often with animals as characters. What is a fable?

B-300 A story that could not happen in real life, often contains supernatural beings or events. What is a fantasy?

What is a folk tale/ fairy tale? B-400 An anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that was originally told rather than written down. What is a folk tale/ fairy tale?

B-500 A hint or suggestion that something will happen in the future; used to create suspense. What is foreshadowing?

C-100 A category of literature, art, or music characterized by a particular style, form, or content. What is a genre?

C-200 A conclusion or educated guess that can be drawn from the information given or evidence observed, but s not specifically stated. What is an inference?

C-300 A comparison of two different things where one thing is said to be the other. What is a metaphor?

C-400 A story made up to explain why something happened; often uses god, goddesses, or other supernatural creatures in the explanation. What is a myth?

Writing that retells a story or an experience. What is a narrative?

D-100 Writing that attempts to convince a reader to take a certain stand or side on an issue. What is persuasive?

A story for stage performance by actors. D-200 A story for stage performance by actors. What is a play/ drama?

D-300 Words arranged in a pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style to express feelings and thoughts. What is poetry?

D-400 Producing a finished piece of writing for an intended audience; the final step n the writing process. What is publishing?

A made up story that could happen. What is realistic fiction?

E-100 A resource used to find information on a particular topic such as a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, or almanac. What is a reference?

What is revising/ revise? To correct or improve the organization or ideas in a piece of writing; “rearranging the furniture”. What is revising/ revise?

Putting events in order in which they happened. What is a sequence?

A comparison or two different things using words “like” or “as”. What is a simile?

E-500 A fictional story containing exaggerations and in which the main character is bigger than life in some way. What is a tall tale?

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