1. English Jeopardy GrammarSynonym Antonym PoetrySpellingSimile or Metaphor? 10 20 30 40 50 Mengdi ZhuLanguage Arts 5 th Grade

2. Identify the verb in this sentence: Kathy walked the dog.

3. What is “walked”? Grammar 10 points

4. Identify the pronoun in this sentence: Jason kicked the ball to her.

5. What is “her”? Grammar 20 points

6. Identify the conjunctions in the following sentence: Terry bought milk and bread, but he forgot the eggs.

7. What are “and” and “but”? Grammar 30 points

8. Identify the linking verb in this sentence: After drinking the old milk, Cara turned green.

9. What is “turned”? Grammar– 40 points

10. Identify the direct object in this sentence: The cat wants to eat our goldfish.

11. What is “our goldfish”? Grammar 50 points

12. Small and Little

13. What is “synonym?” 10 points

14. Slow and Pokey Category 2 – 20 points

15. What is “synonym”? 20 points

16. Calm and Anxious 30 points

17. What is “antonym”? 30 points

18. Opposite and Antonym

19. What is “synonym”? 40 points

20. Concrete and Abstract

21. What is “antonym”? 50 points

22. What kind of poem is this?

23. What is “acrostic”? 10 points

24. What kind of poem is this? Between the two trees Looking up at their branches Which one should we climb?

25. What is a “haiku”? 20 points

26. What kind of poem is this?

27. What is a “limerick?” 30 points

28. 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.

29. What is a “sonnet”? 40 points

30. 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.

31. What is “free verse”? 50 points

32. Spell this word

33. Adapt 10 points

34. Spell this word

35. Brilliance 20 points

36. Spell this word

37. Conservation 30 points

38. Spell this word

39. Ambiguity 40 points

40. Spell this word

41. Millennium 50 points

42. Simile or Metaphor? As big as an elephant

43. What is “simile”? 10 points

44. Simile or Metaphor? His explanation was as clear as mud

45. What is a “simile”? 20 points

46. Simile or Metaphor? The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.

47. What is a “metaphor”? 30 points

48. Simile or Metaphor? He is larger than life

49. What is a “simile”? 40 points

50. Simile or Metaphor? The quarterback was throwing nothing but rockets and bombs in the field.

51. What is a “metaphor”? 50 points