English Jeopardy

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Poetry Spelling Simile or Metaphor?

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Mengdi Zhu Language Arts5th Grade

Identify the verb in this sentence:Kathy walked the dog.

What is “walked”? Grammar 10 points

Identify the pronoun in this sentence:Jason kicked the ball to her.

What is “her”?Grammar 20 points

Identify the conjunctions in the following sentence:

Terry bought milk and bread, but he forgot the eggs.

What are “and” and “but”?Grammar 30 points

Identify the linking verb in this sentence:After drinking the old milk, Cara turned

green.

What is “turned”?Grammar– 40 points

Identify the direct object in this sentence:The cat wants to eat our goldfish.

What is “our goldfish”?Grammar 50 points

Small and Little

What is “synonym?”10 points

Slow and PokeyCategory 2 – 20 points

What is “synonym”?20 points

Calm and Anxious30 points

What is “antonym”?30 points

Opposite and Antonym

What is “synonym”?40 points

Concrete and Abstract

What is “antonym”?50 points

What kind of poem is this?

What is “acrostic”?10 points

What kind of poem is this?

Between the two treesLooking up at their branchesWhich one should we climb?

What is a “haiku”?20 points

What kind of poem is this?

What is a “limerick?”30 points

What kind of poem is this?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

What is a “sonnet”?40 points

What kind of poem is this?You know how this is: 

if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, 

if I touch near the fire 

the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, 

aromas, light, metals, were little boats 

that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. 

What is “free verse”?50 points

Spell this word

Adapt10 points

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Brilliance20 points

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Conservation30 points

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Ambiguity40 points

Spell this word

Millennium50 points

Simile or Metaphor?As big as an elephant

What is “simile”?10 points

Simile or Metaphor?His explanation was as clear as mud

What is a “simile”?20 points

Simile or Metaphor?The children were roses grown in

concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.

What is a “metaphor”?30 points

Simile or Metaphor?He is larger than life

What is a “simile”?40 points

Simile or Metaphor?The quarterback was throwing nothing

but rockets and bombs in the field.

What is a “metaphor”?50 points