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Test your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar with this Jeopardy-style quiz. Answer questions related to vocabulary synonyms, grammar corrections, and literary terms. Challenge yourself and learn along the way!

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  1. Jeopardy Grammar and Usage Literary Terms Genre / Subgenre Vocabulary Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Jeopardy

  2. $100 Answer from Vocabulary Most desirable; maximum; total “_______ darkness occurs at oh-three hundred hours” (Philbrick. 56)

  3. $100 Question from Vocabulary What is optimum? Bonus $100 if you can name a synonym for the word.

  4. $200 Answer from Vocabulary Kindness; ability to do good for others Marley was known for his _______; he always wanted to help others.

  5. $200 Question from Vocabulary What is benevolence? Bonus $200 if you can identify and a synonym and antonym for the word.

  6. $300 Answer from Vocabulary Literary term used for the words around a difficult word that are used to determine a definition.

  7. $300 Question from Vocabulary What are context clues?

  8. $400 Answer from Vocabulary A state of being susceptible to injury or damage (physically, emotionally, or spiritually) Because he did not protect his computer with an anti-virus program, it was __________.

  9. $400 Question from Vocabulary What is vulnerable? $400 if you can identify the word’s suffix and part of speech and explain the meaning of the suffix

  10. $500 Answer from Vocabulary Gloomy; ill-tempered Scrooge was _____ before the Ghosts visited him.

  11. $500 Question from Vocabulary What is morose? Bonus $500 if you can name a word part that you can add and an antonym

  12. $100 Answer from Grammar and Usage The corrections needed in the following sentence: ‘i don’t want to go to school today’ the daughter said

  13. $100 Question from Grammar and Usage What is the fact that the quotation marks need to be two quotation marks, I should always be capitalized, and there should be a period at the end of the sentence. Bonus $100 if you tell me the name for “ the daughter said.”

  14. $200 Answer from Grammar and Usage The difference between a title that is underlined (or italicized when typed) and a title that is placed in quotation marks

  15. $200 Question from Grammar and Usage What is the fact that underlined (or italicized) titles indicate that they are the names for a large work of art, literature, or music, whereas titles that are set in quotation marks indicate that they are works within larger works? $200 bonus if you can name a title that should be underlined and one that should be in quotation marks

  16. $300 Answer from Grammar and Usage The corrections needed in the following sentence: I like james car, it is very fast!

  17. $300 Question from Grammar and Usage What is the fact that James should be capitalized and have an ‘s after his name. It should be a semicolon or a period instead of a comma. Bonus $300 explain why you must make these corrections.

  18. $400 Answer from Grammar and Usage The corrections needed in the following sentence: If you would have went to the movies than you wouldnt wonder what it was about.

  19. $400 Question from Grammar and Usage If you would have went to the movies, then you wouldn’t wonder what it was about. Bonus $400 what is the term used for words like wouldn’t, couldn’t , you’re

  20. $500 Answer from Grammar and Usage He jump up into the air; and he made it into the basket. The hole crowd cheered.

  21. $500 Question from Grammar and Usage He jumped up into the air; and he made it into the basket. The whole crowd cheered. Whole meaning entire part. Bonus $500 if you can tell me why did we make the other two corrections.

  22. $100 Answer from Literary Terms A reference to something the audience should understand without going into detail: In The Raven, Poe refers to “the balm of Gilead,” which his audience at that time understood was a reference to the book of Jeremiah.

  23. $100 Question from Literary Terms What is an allusion? $100 bonus if you can name an allusion in one of the texts that we read this semester

  24. $200 Answer from Literary Terms An object that represents (stands for) another object or concept: For example, the “chains of purse and money” represents Scrooge’s sins and greed.

  25. $200 Question from Literary Terms What is a symbol, or what is symbolism? $200 bonus if you can name another example of symbolism within one of the texts we read this semester.

  26. $300 Answer from Literary Terms A contrast between what was expected to happen and what actually occurs: In A Christmas Carol, readers don’t expect the younger Scrooge to talk about treating his employees well because of the way he treats them now.

  27. $300 Question from Literary Terms Possible response: What is irony? $300 bonus if you can cite another example of irony within one of the texts we have read this semester

  28. $400 Answer from Literary Terms The repetition of consecutive consonant sounds: Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile

  29. $400 Question from Literary Terms What is consonance? $400 bonus if you can respond quickly with another example of a sound device

  30. $500 Answer from Literary Terms Giving human traits to non-living objects • The math book was taunting Victor, daring him to open it (Soto 255).

  31. $500 Question from Literary Terms What is personification? $500 bonus if you can think two other types of figurative language and give an example of each.

  32. $100 Answer from Genre / Subgenre A subgenre of drama that features a cast of characters, stage directions, and is meant to be performed on t.v.

  33. $100 Question from Genre / Subgenre What is a teleplay? Bonus $100 if you match the subgenre with a text

  34. $200 Answer from Genre / Subgenre The category of literature that provides the details of real-life events, which follow the traditional plot elements

  35. $200 Question from Genre / Subgenre What is narrative nonfiction? $200 if you can match a text to the subgenre

  36. $300 Answer from Genre / Subgenre • A type of writing that includes a thesis statement that is supported with evidence and analysis

  37. $300 Answer from Genre / Subgenre What is an essay? $300 if you can tell me the acronym we use for body paragraphs

  38. $400 Answer from Genre / Subgenre A category of literature that is usually divided into lines and stanzas

  39. $400 Question from Genre / Subgenre What is poetry? Bonus $400 if you give me a subgenre of poetry

  40. $500 Answer from Genre / Subgenre Writing about one’s own life

  41. $500 Question from Genre / Subgenre What is autobiography? Bonus $500 is you can tell me the difference between biography and autobiography

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