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Final Jeopardy

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3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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?

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

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

14. 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?

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

16. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. 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?

28. FINAL JEOPARDY
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