English Jeopardy GrammarSynonym Antonym PoetrySpellingSimile or Metaphor? Mengdi ZhuLanguage Arts 5 th Grade
Identify the verb in this sentence: Kathy walked the dog.
What is “walked”? Grammar 10 points
Identify the pronoun in this sentence: Jason kicked the ball to her.
What is “her”? Grammar 20 points
Identify the conjunctions in the following sentence: Terry bought milk and bread, but he forgot the eggs.
What are “and” and “but”? Grammar 30 points
Identify the linking verb in this sentence: After drinking the old milk, Cara turned green.
What is “turned”? Grammar– 40 points
Identify the direct object in this sentence: The cat wants to eat our goldfish.
What is “our goldfish”? Grammar 50 points
Small and Little
What is “synonym?” 10 points
Slow and Pokey Category 2 – 20 points
What is “synonym”? 20 points
Calm and Anxious 30 points
What is “antonym”? 30 points
Opposite and Antonym
What is “synonym”? 40 points
Concrete and Abstract
What is “antonym”? 50 points
What kind of poem is this?
What is “acrostic”? 10 points
What kind of poem is this? Between the two trees Looking up at their branches Which one should we climb?
What is a “haiku”? 20 points
What kind of poem is this?
What is a “limerick?” 30 points
What kind of poem is this? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
What is a “sonnet”? 40 points
What kind of poem is this? You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
What is “free verse”? 50 points
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Adapt 10 points
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Brilliance 20 points
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Conservation 30 points
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Ambiguity 40 points
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Millennium 50 points
Simile or Metaphor? As big as an elephant
What is “simile”? 10 points
Simile or Metaphor? His explanation was as clear as mud
What is a “simile”? 20 points
Simile or Metaphor? The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.
What is a “metaphor”? 30 points
Simile or Metaphor? He is larger than life
What is a “simile”? 40 points
Simile or Metaphor? The quarterback was throwing nothing but rockets and bombs in the field.
What is a “metaphor”? 50 points