Reading
Name the resourceful book that has many hyphens.
Bonus: Name another resource book.
What is a Dictionary
bonus: what is the following below?
Thesaurus
Encyclopedia
The mistakes in the sentence below:
"You have very bad pronouncietion." she said.
Bonus: type the sentence correctly
What is pronunciation and period?
"You have very bad pronunciation," she said.
The place that Anne Frank hid in.
Bonus: The war she lived in.
What is The Secret Annex?
What is World War 2?
If there was an essay saying that recess should be longer, what is the author's purpose.
To persuade.
What is a conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning?
The root word in quadrilateral.
Bonus: What root is it?
What is the root word Lat?
What is Latin Root?
An overused piece of language.
What is a cliche?
How many video games were based off of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Bonus: Name the years they were made in.
Two
Bonus: What is 1985 and 2005?
A theme.
What is the central idea, message in the text, or a subject?
What is the root word for aquarium?
Bonus: What root is it?
Aqu means water.
Bonus: Greek Root
The study of life.
Bonus: How many Greek Root words in that word are/is there?
Biology
Bonus: 2
The meaning of the phrase below:
Piece of Cake.
Bonus: The figure of speech form.
What is similar to the answer below?
It is very easy.
What is an Idiom?
When did Elie Wiesel die?
Bonus: What was he most known for?
2016
Bonus: His writings on the holocaust.
When the author tries to inform you, what genre is it usually in?
Informational text/Nonfiction
Correct the sentence: (Bonus: rewrite it correctly)
Kitty and me were in the living room watching TV.
Incorrect use of Me/I
Kitty and I were in the living room watching TV.
A form of figurative language.
(Bonus: The form that uses exaggeration to make a point.)
What is the following below?
Metaphors, Idioms, Similes, Personification, Allusions, Hyperbole, Irony, onomatopoeia, puns, paradox.
True or false:
The em dash is longer than the en dash.
Bonus: What do you use to measure your dashes
What is true.
(Bonus: Letters M and N)
The Author of the Hobbit.
Bonus: Name another book she/he wrote.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
Bonus: The Lord of the Rings.
I was so enervated that I felt like I ran a marathon.
What does enervated mean?
What is tired?
The period that William Shakespeare lived in.
What is the Renaissance?
What is a common theme in Roald Dahl's children's books?
Bonus: Why was there this theme?
Adults are EVIL. (This is not always true; there are many nice adults.)
Bonus: Because when he was at boarding school, the teachers and headmasters always hit their kids with a cane. (Ahem, child abuse today)
What is the misplaced modifier in the sentence?
I made myself a hot cup of cocoa.
Bonus: Rewrite the sentence so it's grammatically correct.
I made myself a cup of hot cocoa.
In this story, Meg and her brother travel in space with the three Mrs.
(Bonus: Name the three Mrs.)
What is A Wrinkle in Time?
Bonus: Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit.
I went outside and build a snowman, then I went inside and had hot cocoa.
What can you inference in this text?
It is winter. There was snow on the ground.
1. A story that is made up but the setting was real.
2. "I ate a million cookies!"
3. Name a famous author that is not mentioned in this jeopardy.
1. What is Historical Fiction?
2. What is Hyperbole?
3. Answers will vary.