Vocabulary
Punctuation
Grammar
Style
Riddles
100

The location, time, and/or circumstances in which a story take place.  

What is setting?

100

The thing missing from this sentence

What is a period?

100

The root in the word "hopeful".  

What is "hope"?

100

A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition used to sort style, form, and content.  


What is genre?
100

This animal can jump higher than our building.  

What is any animal?  Buildings cannot jump at all.  

200

Someone who appears in a book, movie, etc.; a representation of an individual personality in a fictional or dramatic work.

What is a character?

200

The name of this "" punctuation.  

What are quotation marks?

or

What are quotes?

200

The prefix in the word "mislead."

What is "mis"?

200

A style of writing meant to convince the reader of an opinion or view.

What is persuasive writing?
200

This object has many keys but cannot unlock anything.  

What is a piano?


or

What is a keyboard?
300

A position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated.

What is point of view?
300

The name of this ! punctuation.

What is an exclamation point?

300

Choose the correct pronoun: 

Please tell me where I can find (your / you're / yours) notebook.

What is your?

300

These are words that slant upward to the right.

What are italics?

300

People buy me to eat, but never eat me.

What are plates and utensils?  

400

The act or practice of thinking (as by applying reason and questioning assumptions) in order to solve problems, evaluate information, discern biases, etc.                                                    

What is critical thinking?

400

In every jeopardy response, you can find this punctuation.

What is a question mark?

400

The suffix in the word "weightless".  

What is "less"?
400

A book about tornadoes told using documented accounts and facts would be this type of writing.

What is nonfiction?


or 

What is informational text?


400

I have a neck but no head arms but no hands.  

What is a shirt?

or

What is a hoodie/sweater?

500

Bam!  Zoom!  Kapow!  Swish!  Sizzle!  These are all examples of....

What is onomatopoeia?

500

This kind of punctuation is used around dialogue, quotes, and sometimes titles.  

What are quotation marks?

500

This type of sentence goes on and on and on and on and on and on and then goes on a little more maybe it should try splitting into two sentences.

What is a run-on sentence?

500

A type of figurative language where objects or abstractions are described with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.  Examples include "The flowers danced on the wind" or "the wind howled in pain".  

What is personification?

500

Tuesday, Sam, and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch. After eating lunch, they paid the bill. But Sam and Peter did not pay the bill.  Name the person who paid the bill.  

Who is Tuesday?

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