1. You can type your own categories and points values in this game board. Type your questions and answers in the slides we’ve provided. When you’re in slide show view, click a points box to go to that question, then click to move to the answer slide. Click the left triangle to return to this game board slide. Definitions! 10 20 30 40 50 Examples! 10 20 30 40 50 Are you sure? 10 20 30 40 50 Guess the term?! 10 20 30 40 50 Definitions 2! 10 20 30 40 50

2. Category 1 questions follow

3. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the left triangle to return to the game board slide. Define simile. 10 Category 1

4. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. A comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as” 10 Category 1

5. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the left triangle to return to the game board slide. Define metaphor. 20 Category 1

6. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. A comparison of two unlike things stating how one thing is like something else 20 Category 1

7. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the left triangle to return to the game board slide. Define oxymoron. 30 Category 1

8. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. A figure of speech in which contradictory (or opposite) terms appear side by side 30 Category 1

9. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the left triangle to return to the game board slide. Define alliteration. 40 Category 1

10. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. the repetition of an initial consonant sound 40 Category 1

11. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the left triangle to return to the game board slide. Define allusion. 50 Category 1

12. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. makes a reference to current events, literary work, art or pop culture. 50 Category 1

13. Category 2 questions follow

14. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Give me an example of onomatopoeia. 10 Category 2

15. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Go! 10 Category 2

16. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Give me an example of a simile. 20

17. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Go! 20 Category 2

18. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Give me an example of an oxymoron. 30 Category 2

19. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Go! 30 Category 2

20. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Give me an example of a cliché. 40 Category 2

21. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Go! 40 Category 2

22. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Give me an example of a pun. (5 extra points if it makes me laugh! ) 50 Category 2

23. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Go! 50 Category 2

24. Category 3 questions follow

25. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the sentence below: The lake was a mirror on the calm, clear Saturday. 10 Category 3

26. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Metaphor 10 Category 3

27. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the sentence below: The trees shivered in the winter wind. 20 Category 3

28. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Personification 20 Category 3

29. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the sentence below: Careless cars cutting corners cause confusion. 30 Category 3

30. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Alliteration 30 Category 3

31. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the sentence below: “Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.” 40 Category 3

32. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Allusion 40 Category 3

33. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the sentence below: I was happy to put my John Hancock on the petition. 50 Category 3

34. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Allusion 50 Category 3

35. Category 4 questions follow

36. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the song lyric: ““That you were Romeo You were throwing pebbles And my daddy said Stay away from Juliet” 10 Category 4

37. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Allusion 10 Category 4

38. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the song lyric: “ ’Cause baby you’re a firework…” 20 Category 4

39. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Metaphor 20 Category 4

40. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the song lyric: “I got that boom, boom, boom That future boom, boom, boom” 30 Category 4

41. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Onomatopoeia 30 Category 4

42. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the song lyric: “I’d catch a grenade for you, Throw my head on a blade for you. I’d jump in front of a train for you.” 40 Category 4

43. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Hyperbole 40 Category 4

44. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Identify the figurative language term being used in the song lyric: “In New York, Concrete jungle where dreams are made of There's nothin' you can't do “ 50 Category 4

45. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Metaphor 50 Category 4

46. Category 5 questions follow

47. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Define personification 10 Category 5

48. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. When non-human objects or ideas are given human qualities 10 Category 5

49. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Define idiom 20 Category 5

50. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. A common expression understood figuratively, as the literal definition makes no sense. 20 Category 5

51. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Define hyperbole 30 Category 5

52. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. uses exaggeration for a humorous effort 30 Category 5

53. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Define a pun 40 Category 5

54. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. a play on words, often humorous, that uses words that have similar or identical sounds but very different meanings. 40 Category 5

55. Question Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. Define cliché 50 Category 5

56. Answer Type your questions and answers in the placeholders. You can add the points value at the bottom for reference. When you’re in slide show view, click the triangle to return to the game board slide. an often repeated or used phrase or statement that has been overused so much it has become meaningless. 50 Category 5