A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true.
What is hyperbole?
100
Name the first president of the United States.
What is George Washington? Booyah!
100
Successfully touch your tongue to your elbow.
What is "You almost got 500 points, but the task is physically impossible, so you're out of luck."?
100
Touch your toes.
What is you got a hundred points?
100
An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend.
What is apostrophe?
200
Lose 200 points!
What is =(?
200
Has meanings that are widely recognized by a society or culture.
What is conventional symbol?
200
Do you like bananas?
What is... If you said no, gain 500 points. If you said yes, that's disgusting. Lose 200 points.
200
Say the alphabet backwards.
What is... HAHAHAHA, you did that for nothing. You get NO points.
200
Lose a turn!
What is you lose?
300
A dramatic convention by means of which a character, alone onstage, utters his or her thoughts aloud.
What is soliloquy?
300
The capital of Montana.
What is Helena?
300
A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.
What is allegory?
300
High-five the tallest person in the room... It's probably Jacob.
What is... awesome job!?
300
The sound a clock makes.
What is tick-tock?
400
Go again!
What is AHHH?
400
Go to the restroom!
What is "You just got 300 points for going to the bathroom!"?
400
Hug the person nearest to you! 400 points!
What is yay!?
400
Abbreviation for frozen yogurt.
What is fro-yo?
400
A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature.
What is allusion?
500
Lose your turn! Wahhh-wahhh.
What is dang?!
500
Can be a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings.
What is contextual symbol?
500
Mrs. Gentry's last name.
What is Gentry?
500
A person, object, image, work, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.