ELA 9 Semester 1 Jeopardy

Literary Devices & Terms

100

This is a description of a metaphor.

What is comparing two things without using like or as?

200

These are the two categories types of conflict between characters fall under.

What are internal and external conflict?

300

In a text, this is literally what the poem, song, or story is about.

What is the subject?

400

This is a kind of conflict in which man must overcome an issue bigger than himself, facing a challenge the world presents him with.

What is the description of man vs. society conflict?

500

This is the description of what theme is in a text.

What is the subject matter and what the author is trying to say about it?

All That I Am

100

This is what "The Road Not Taken" is about.

What are two different paths in life?

200

This is why Pavol's dad died.

What is Pavol's dad stopping to help change a tire on the road?

300

This is the part of a narrative directly following the climax.

What is falling action?

400

This is the resolution in Cheaper by the Dozen.

What is the Baker's moving back to their small town?

500

This is a theme of Pat Mora's Same Song.

What is the relationship between self image and gender?

Shattered

100

Ian's Civics teacher's name.

Who is Mrs. Watkins?

200

This is the country Berta is from, and continues to sponsor children who live there.

What is Guatemala? 

300

This is the name of the sea creature in the metaphor Ian tells Sarge near the end of the book.

What are starfish?

400

This is the factor which Mac says often makes the difference between homeless people who end up getting better, versus those who do not.

Who are the people who they have in their lives?

500

This is the birthday gift Ian got from Sarge, and this is what this gift meant.

What is a sobriety chip? Why does this mean Sarge is staying sober?

Choices, Conflicts, and Challenges

100

Name one of the creation stories read in the creation story carousel.

What are: The Gift of Storytelling, the Gift of Breath, How Thor got His Hammer, How Raven Stole the Light, and The Creation of Turtle Island?

200

This is often referred to as the Canadian genocide.

What were residential schools?

300

This is the mistake that puts Helen on Kat's radar for bullying.

What is Helen sat at Kath's table at lunch time?

400

This is one of the challenges Steve Jobs mentions in his Stanford speech.

What are his adoption, struggling with Apple at first, or a brush with cancer?

500

This is how this quote relates to the themes of Shattered: "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." –Edmund Burke

What are:

helping and globalism, or war?

Grammar, Parts of Speech, & More

100

This is a description of a noun.

What is a part of speech which is either a person, place, thing, or idea?

200

This is a word which describes a verb or adjective.

What is an adverb?

300

This is the definition of a preposition.

What is the part of speech that describes the direction of the noun in relation to the other words in the sentence?

400

This is the definition of an adjective.

What is a word which describes a noun?

500

This is the difference between a verb and an adverb.

What is a word which describes an noun, versus a word which describes a verb or adjective?