Figures of Speech Jeopardy English 9
Literary Terms Jeopardy Figurative Language 2 Figurative Language 3 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Figurative Language 4 Big Words Figurative Language 5
Literary Terms Jeopardy Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Big Words Figurative Language 2 Figurative Language 3 Figurative Language 4 Figurative Language 5
$100 Question from Big Words The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop.
$100 Answer from Big Words What is onomatopoeia?
$200 Question from Big Words The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
$200 Answer from Big Words What is alliteration?
$300 Question from Big Words A type of figurative language in which an inanimate nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.
$300 Answer from Big Words What is personification?
$400 Question from Big Words A form of exaggeration; an overstatement
$400 Answer from Big Words What is a hyperbole?
$500 Question from Big Words Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.
$500 Answer from Big Words What is assonance?
$100 Question from Figurative Language I've told you a million times to go to bed!
$100 Answer from Figurative Language What is hyperbole?
$200 Question from Figurative Language I seem to have lost my mind!
$200 Answer from Figurative Language What is hyperbole?
$300 Question from Figurative Language Mary was a machine cranking out the answers to her math homework.
$300 Answer from Figurative Language What is a metaphor?
$400 Question from Figurative Language The rhinoceros was a tank speeding toward the petrified hunter.
$400 Answer from Figurative Language What is a metaphor?
$500 Question from Figurative Language Silly sally really rallied. Billy Bob beat Bonnie.
$500 Answer from Figurative Language What is an alliteration?
$100 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.
$100 Answer from Word Plays What is a synonym?
$200 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.
$200 Answer from Word Plays What is an antonym?
$300 Question from Word Plays A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or more than.
$300 Answer from Word Plays What is a simile?
$400 Question from Word Plays This is a comparison between two different things that share similar characteristics, without using the words “like” or “as”.
$400 Answer from Word Plays What is a metaphor?
$500 Question from Word Plays The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.
$500 Answer from Word Plays What is figurative language?
$100 Question from Think About It The "bzzzzzzzzz" of the saw hurt my ears.
$100 Answer from Think About It What is onomatopoeia ?
$200 Question from Think About It Her hair was longer than the Nile river.
$200 Answer from Think About It What is hyperbole?
$300 Question from Think About It Your mind is a sponge.
$300 Answer from Think About It What is a metaphor?
$400 Question from Think About It Try to define mankind with a sublime rhyme.
$400 Answer from Think About It What is assonance?
$500 Question from Think About It He looked like the rear end of a donkey.
$500 Answer from Think About It What is a simile?
$100 Question from Figurative Language You’re the light to the end of my tunnel.
$100 Answer from Figurative Language What is a metaphor?
$200 Question from Figurative Language She sings like an angel that fell from heaven and sprained her vocal chords.
$200 Answer from Figurative Language What is a simile?
$300 Question from Figurative Language Meow, grrr, zap
$300 Answer from Figurative Language What is onomatopoeia?
$400 Question from Figurative Language Brrrrr, zonk
$400 Answer from Figurative Language What is onomatopoeia?
$500 Question from Figurative Language The desk screamed as her nails ran across it.
$500 Answer from Figurative Language What is personification?
Final Jeopardy Something that appears to be incorrect or impossible, but is, in fact, correct or possible
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