1. PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy Game

2. PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy

3. A person who tells a story or gives an account of what happened
$100 General PSSA Terms
A person who tells a story or gives an account of what happened

4. $100 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is the narrator?

5. A segment of a written work or speech
$200 General PSSA Terms
A segment of a written work or speech

6. $200 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is passage?

7. $300 General PSSA Terms
The way in which a character views the situation

8. $300 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is
point of view?

9. The author’s central thought; the topic sentence of a paragraph
$400 General PSSA Terms
The author’s central thought; the topic sentence of a paragraph

10. $400 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is main idea?

11. The solution to a problem; Where the conflict is resolved
$500 General PSSA Terms
The solution to a problem;
Where the conflict is resolved

12. $500 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is resolution?

13. $100 Nonfiction Genre
Nonfiction written to convey information Ex. Brochures, directions, manuals, news reports, etc.

14. $100 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is
informational text?

15. $200 Nonfiction Genre
Nonfiction text that teaches or instructs
Ex: How to, recipe

16. $200 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is instructional?

17. The story of a person’s entire life written by himself or herself
$300 Nonfiction Genre
The story of a person’s entire life written by himself or herself

18. $300 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is an autobiography?

19. $400 Nonfiction Genre
The story of a person’s life written by someone other than the subject

20. $400 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is a biography?

21. $500 Nonfiction Genre
Text that conveys a true story of of a single event or events of one self’s life rather than about the person’s entire life - includes dialogue

22. $500 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is a personal narrative?

23. $100 Text Analysis
One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings

24. $100 Answer from Text Analysis
What is a synomym?

25. Drawing conclusions by examining clues from the text
$200 Text Analysis
Drawing conclusions by examining clues from the text

26. $200 Answer from Text Analysis
What is an inference?

27. A broad statement that applies to many different situations.
$300 Text Analysis
A broad statement that applies to many different situations.
Ex: 6th graders always leave a mess at their lunch tables

28. $300 Answer from Text Analysis
What is a generalization?

29. A statement you can prove to be true.
$400 Text Analysis
A statement you can prove to be true.

30. $400 Answer from Text Analysis
What is a fact?

31. $500 Text Analysis
A statement that cannot be proven or a statement someone believes to be true about something

32. $500 Answer from Text Analysis
What is an opinion?

33. $100 Open-Ended Terms
The moral of the story

34. $100 Answer from Open-Ended
What is theme?

35. The reason an author writes a passage
$200 Open-Ended Terms
The reason an author writes a passage
Ex: to entertain, persuade, or inform

36. $200 Answer from Open-Ended
What is author’s purpose?

37. The events that lead to the climax
$300 Open-Ended Terms
The events that lead to the climax

38. $300 Answer from Open-Ended
What is rising action?

39. Drawing conclusions from clues and facts found in the story
$400 Open-Ended Terms
Drawing conclusions from clues and facts found in the story

40. $400 Answer from Open-Ended
What is climax?

41. The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities
$500 Open-Ended Terms
The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities

42. $500 Answer from Open-Ended
What is characterization? or
What is character traits?

43. A comparison between 2 things using like or as
$100 Literary Devices
A comparison between 2 things using like or as
Ex: The baby was as cute as a button.

44. $100 Answer Literary Devices
What is a simile?

45. A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as.
$200 Literary Devices
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as.
Ex: Time was a thief.

46. $200 Answer from Literary Devices
What is a metaphor?

47. Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
$300 Literary Devices
Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
Ex: The sea called out to me.

48. $300 Answer from Literary Devices
What is personification?

49. An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect
$400 Literary Devices
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect
Ex: I must have told you a million times.

50. $400 Answer from Literary Devices
What is a hyperbole?

51. Imitation of natural sounds, words you hear Ex: splat, bang, ding-dong
$500 Literary Devices
Imitation of natural sounds, words you hear
Ex: splat, bang, ding-dong

52. $500 Answer from Literary Devices
What is an onomatopoeia?

53. FINAL JEOPARDY!
Capturing the most important parts of the original passage in a much shorter space and in the reader’s own words – includes who? where? when? what? why?

54. FINAL JEOPARDY!
What is a summary?

55. You Have Finished PSSA Jeopardy!