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PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy Game

PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy Game. PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy. Open Ended. Nonfiction Genres. Literary Devices. General. Analysis. Q $100. Q $100. Q $100. Q $100. Q $100. Q $200. Q $200. Q $200. Q $200. Q $200. Q $300. Q $300. Q $300. Q $300. Q $300. Q $400. Q $400. Q $400.

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PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy Game

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  1. PSSA VocabularyJeopardy Game

  2. PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy Open Ended Nonfiction Genres Literary Devices General Analysis Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

  3. $100 General PSSA Terms A person who tells a story or gives an account of what happened

  4. $100 Answer from PSSA Terms What is the narrator?

  5. $200 General PSSA Terms A segment of a written work or speech

  6. $200 Answer from PSSA Terms What is passage?

  7. $300 General PSSA Terms The way in which a character views the situation

  8. $300 Answer from PSSA Terms What is point of view?

  9. $400 General PSSA Terms The author’s central thought; the topic sentence of a paragraph

  10. $400 Answer from PSSA Terms What is main idea?

  11. $500 General PSSA Terms The solution to a problem; Where the conflict is resolved

  12. $500 Answer from PSSA Terms What is resolution?

  13. $100 Nonfiction Genre Nonfiction written to convey information. Ex. Brochures, directions, manuals, news reports, etc.

  14. $100 Answer from Nonfiction Genres What is informational text?

  15. $200 Nonfiction Genre Nonfiction text that teaches or instructs Ex: How to, recipe

  16. $200 Answer from Nonfiction Genres What is instructional?

  17. $300 Nonfiction Genre The story of a person’s entire life written by himself or herself

  18. $300 Answer from Nonfiction Genres What is an autobiography?

  19. $400 Nonfiction Genre The story of a person’s life written by someone other than the subject

  20. $400 Answer from Nonfiction Genres What is a biography?

  21. $500 Nonfiction Genre Text that conveys a true story of of a single event or events of one self’s life rather than about the person’s entire life - includes dialogue

  22. $500 Answer from Nonfiction Genres What is a personal narrative?

  23. $100 Text Analysis One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings

  24. $100 Answer from Text Analysis What is a synomym?

  25. $200 Text Analysis Drawing conclusions by examining clues from the text

  26. $200 Answer from Text Analysis What is an inference?

  27. $300 Text Analysis A broad statement that applies to many different situations. Ex: 6th graders always leave a mess at their lunch tables

  28. $300 Answer from Text Analysis What is a generalization?

  29. $400 Text Analysis A statement you can prove to be true.

  30. $400 Answer from Text Analysis What is a fact?

  31. $500 Text Analysis A statement that cannot be proven or a statement someone believes to be true about something

  32. $500 Answer from Text Analysis What is an opinion?

  33. $100 Open-Ended Terms The moral of the story

  34. $100 Answer from Open-Ended What is theme?

  35. $200 Open-Ended Terms The reason an author writes a passage Ex: to entertain, persuade, or inform

  36. $200 Answer from Open-Ended What is author’s purpose?

  37. $300 Open-Ended Terms The events that lead to the climax

  38. $300 Answer from Open-Ended What is rising action?

  39. $400 Open-Ended Terms Drawing conclusions from clues and facts found in the story

  40. $400 Answer from Open-Ended What is climax?

  41. $500 Open-Ended Terms The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities

  42. $500 Answer from Open-Ended What is characterization? or What is character traits?

  43. $100 Literary Devices A comparison between 2 things using like or as Ex: The baby was as cute as a button.

  44. $100 Answer Literary Devices What is a simile?

  45. $200 Literary Devices A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as. Ex: Time was a thief.

  46. $200 Answer from Literary Devices What is a metaphor?

  47. $300 Literary Devices Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea Ex: The sea called out to me.

  48. $300 Answer from Literary Devices What is personification?

  49. $400 Literary Devices An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect Ex: I must have told you a million times.

  50. $400 Answer from Literary Devices What is a hyperbole?

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