Frederick's Sophomore 1st Quarter Jeopardy Game

The Grammar Police

100

Which part of speech describes nouns?

Adjective

200

Which of these words is a possessive?  There, Their, They're

Their

300

Essays are written pieces long enough to be broken into separate ___________.

Paragraphs

400

In formal papers, it is not appropriate to use the pronouns such as "I" and "me."  What is it called when such pronouns are used?

First Person

500

When does a comma precede a quoted statement?

When the quote is introduced

Very Literary Devices

100

This word means to reach a conclusion from a reading, without needing it to be explicitly stated.

Inference

200

A situation or idea where two contradictory things coexist, but it makes some sense anyway.

Paradox

300

This is a kind of noun that represent something that cannot be perceived by the five senses.

Abstract

400

This is a word that basically means exaggeration.  It is something that everyone resorts to daily.

Hyperbole

500

This word means, "a word or phrase that represents nicer way of saying something unpleasant or harsh."

Euphemism

Let's Get Lit(erature)

100

Tom climbed out to the tiny ledge outside of his New York apartment, in order to retrieve this.

a yellow piece of paper with notes

200

In "Lamb to the Slaughter," Mary Maloney kills her husband, because (it appears) that he's divorcing her.  How does she get rid of the murder weapon?

She cooks it and feeds it to the investigators.

300

In the short story, Charming Billy, what landscape feature helps to inform the reader of the story's location.

Rice Paddies

400

In the poem "Child of the Americas," by Aurora Levins Morales, what is one example of the several cultures from which the speaker was born.

any of the following:

Taino, Africa, Europe, Latin America, New York Ghettos, Puerto Rico, Judaism, Caribbean, Mestiza

500

In the passage we read from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the narrator describes stealing what form of goods and/ or services?

Electrical Power

Call a (vo)Cab

100

This word means "a sickness or ailment."

Malady

200

This word refers to the power to influence people to do what you want.

Leverage

300

This is the sort of language that uses description that goes beyond the literal definitions of words, creating compelling imagery.

Figurative Language

400

This word means a thing of no consequence or importance.

Trifle

500

What is the part of speech of the the word "grimace?"

Noun

Logic Games

100

What is the name of the student who answered this question correctly?

[your name]

200

What are the two most important tasks in English class?

Reading and Writing

300

Joe’s father had three son’s Snap, Crackle and?

Joe

400

What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?

Humans.  They crawl as children, walk as adults, and use walking sticks as elders.

500

This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.

Time

(from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit)