Jeopardy

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Jeopardy
Simile or Metaphor
Hyperbole or Idiom
Mystery Bag
Alliteration Onomatopoeia Personification
Explain the meaning
Who Am I?
What is being compared?
What is this?
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A for 100

• The shirt was as silky as the web from the most
  delicate of spiders.

What is a simile?
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A for 200
The band leader was a tiger on the field.
What is a metaphor?
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A for 300
My moms brain is just like a computer she
remembers everything!
What is a simile?
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A for 400

• The frail womans heart was a fountain of
  loneliness.

What is a metaphor?
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A for 500

• The arthritic train rattled, chugged, and moaned
  down the isolated track.

What is a metaphor?
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B for 100
The movie was so bad that the popcorn and sodas
walked out in protest.
What is a hyperbole?
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B for 200
Cinderellas hair was the color of gold and was
so long it reached the gardens from her
high-tower room.
What is a hyperbole?
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B for 300
The award-winning gardener has a green thumb.
What is an idiom?
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B for 400
It was raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
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B for 500
The pitcher for the Astros is always a ball of
fire!
What an idiom?
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C for 100
It was raining cats and dogs.
What is it was raining a lot?
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C for 200
My cat did cartwheels and jumped around the world
when I gave her a piece of fish.
What is My cat was happy to have fish?
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C for 300
The sunset was a ribbon of gold, green, and red.
What is the sunset was colorful?
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C for 400
Daily Double
The vines clutched at my ankles.
What is The vines were stuck at my feet?
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C for 500
His books were steamships and starships taking
him to new worlds.
What is His books allowed him to read about far
away places?
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D for 100
Repeating the same sound at the beginning of
several words in a series
What is alliteration?
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D for 200
Speaking to an absent person, place or thing as
if it were present
What is apostrophe?
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D for 300
A comparision using like or as
What is a simile?
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D for 400
An expression whose whole meaning is different
from the literal meaning of the words
What is an idiom?
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D for 500
Using words to create a picture in the readers
mind
What is imagery?
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E for 100
A giant kite floated in the ocean breeze like a
feather in the wind.
What are kite and feather?
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E for 200
Her class was like a circus the room was filled
with fun and laughter.
What are class and circus?
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E for 300
Uncle Mike was a grizzly while he worked on the
oil field.
What are Uncle Mike and grizzly?
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E for 400
An army of ants attacked the fallen lollipop.
What are ants and army?
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E for 500
His sandpaper hand scratched her cheek.
What are sandpaper and hand?
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F for 100
The lizard stared at me with a smiling, Hello,
as I stared back.
What is personification?
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F for 200
Zoe the zebra plays the xylophone diligently.
What is alliteration?
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F for 300
The tardy Strack student plopped into the seat
just as the bell rang.
What is onomatopoiea?
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F for 400
The clock announced the time like a soldier at
the beginning of battle
What is personification?
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F for 500
The bell of the trolley clanged loudly as the
tiny toddler ran in the street.
What is onomatopoeia?
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G for 100
Time flies when youre having fun!
What is an idiom?
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G for 200
Using a very exaggerated statement for emphasis
or effect
What is hyperbole?
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G for 300
The road was like a snake, winding its way toward
the sunset.
What a simile?
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G for 400
There was a quiet riot in front of the school.
What is an oxymoron?
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BONUS QUESTION

• Worth 3 TIMES the Value

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G for 500
The turquoise waves crashed against the sandy
shore, causing the little blonde girl to jump
backwards in astonishment.
What is imagery?
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H for 100
(identify) He is a snail when it comes to getting
work done.
What is a metaphor?
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H for 200
Meaning of the word imagery?
What is creating a picture in the readers mind?
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H for 300
Meaning of the word oxymoron
What is contrasting opposite words or ideas?
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H for 400
(identify) Liberty, when it begins take root, is
a plant of rapid growth.George Washington
What is a metaphor?
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H for 500
(meaning) His new Hummer turned out to be a
lemon.
What is the car was broken?