Jeopardy – MS. South English Parts of Speech More Parts of Speech Figurative Language Miscellaneous Commas 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

1 - 100 This is a word that replaces a person, place, or thing. Pronoun

1 - 200 Hooks up word, phrases, and clauses. Conjunction

1 - 300 Names a special person, place, thing, or idea, and it must be capitalized. Proper noun

1 - 400 What is this word’s part of speech: Now Adverb

1 - 500 5 easy linking verbs Is, are, was, were, am

2 - 100 Something that describes a noun Adjective

2 - $200 What is this word’s part of speech: Wow! Interjection

2 - 300 What is this word’s part of speech: glossy Adjective

2 - 400 This is a type of noun that we don’t need to capitalize Common noun

2 - 500 This type of noun: Lori’s Possessive noun

3 - 100 It’s the word that the sound makes Onomatopoeia

3 - 200 Here is an example: Meg was as quiet as a mouse. Simile

3 - 300 Here is an example: It was so hot the flies were dropping out of the sky with heatstroke. Hyperbole

3 - 400 Here is an example: Sally has a chip on her shoulder. Idiom

3 - 500 Here is an example: The calendar slapped me in the face with today’s deadline. Personification

4 - $100 Which words in this book title should be capitalized? dead girls don’t write letters All of them

4 - 200 This is the punctuation we use with the title of a poem. Quotation marks

4 - 300 My daughter has one dog. What part of speech is one? Adjective

4 - 400 What do you really want? What part of speech is really? Adverb

4 - 500 The new store will be open in the spring. Which word should be capitalized? Spring

5 - 100 Where should the comma be placed? The answer is 15,229 I think. After 15,229

5 - $200 Where should the comma be placed? July 12 1981 After 12

5 - 300 Where should the comma be placed? Oh I don’t know. After oh

5 - 400 Where should the comma be placed? When we returned from summer break we had all grown. Between break and we

5 - 500 This is a list of words in a sentence form that needs to be separated by commas. A series

Final Jeopardy Who is your favorite teacher in all the land? MS. SOUTH 