PSSA VocabularyJeopardy Game
PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy
General LiteraryDevices
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Nonfiction Genres
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Final Jeopardy
$100 General PSSA Terms
A person who tells a story or gives an account of what happened
$100 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is the narrator?
$200 General PSSA Terms
A segment of a written work or speech
$200 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is passage?
$300 General PSSA Terms
The way in which a character views the situation
$300 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is point of view?
$400 General PSSA Terms
The author’s central thought; the topic sentence
of a paragraph
$400 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is main idea?
$500 General PSSA Terms
The solution to a problem; Where the conflict is
resolved
$500 Answer from PSSA Terms
What is resolution?
$100 Nonfiction Genre
Nonfiction written to convey information. Ex. Brochures, directions, manuals, news reports, etc.
$100 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is informational text?
$200 Nonfiction Genre
Nonfiction text that teaches or instructsEx: How to, recipe
$200 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is instructional?
$300 Nonfiction Genre
The story of a person’s entire life written by himself or herself
$300 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is an autobiography?
$400 Nonfiction Genre
The story of a person’s life written by someone other than the subject
$400 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is a biography?
$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
$500 Answer from Nonfiction Genres
What is a personal narrative?
$100 Text Analysis
One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings
$100 Answer from Text Analysis
What is a synomym?
$200 Text Analysis
Drawing conclusions by examining clues from the
text
$200 Answer from Text Analysis
What is an inference?
$300 Text Analysis
A broad statement that applies to many different situations. Ex: 6th graders always leave a mess at their lunch tables
$300 Answer from Text Analysis
What is a generalization?
$400 Text Analysis
A statement you can prove to be true.
$400 Answer from Text Analysis
What is a fact?
$500 Text Analysis
A statement that cannot be proven or a statement someone believes to be true about something
$500 Answer from Text Analysis
What is an opinion?
$100 Open-Ended Terms
The moral of the story
$100 Answer from Open-Ended
What is theme?
$200 Open-Ended Terms
The reason an author writes a passage
Ex: to entertain, persuade, or inform
$200 Answer from Open-Ended
What is author’s purpose?
$300 Open-Ended Terms
The events that lead to the climax
$300 Answer from Open-Ended
What is rising action?
$400 Open-Ended Terms
Drawing conclusions from clues and facts found in
the story
$400 Answer from Open-Ended
What is climax?
$500 Open-Ended Terms
The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities
$500 Answer from Open-Ended
What is characterization?or
What is character traits?
$100 Literary Devices
A comparison between 2 things using like or asEx: The baby was as cute as a button.
$100 Answer Literary Devices
What is a simile?
$200 Literary Devices
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as. Ex: Time was a thief.
$200 Answer from Literary Devices
What is a metaphor?
$300 Literary Devices
Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
Ex: The sea called out to me.
$300 Answer from Literary Devices
What is personification?
$400 Literary Devices
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effectEx: I must have told you a million times.
$400 Answer from Literary Devices
What is a hyperbole?
$500 Literary Devices
Imitation of natural sounds, words you hearEx: splat, bang, ding-dong
$500 Answer from Literary Devices
What is an onomatopoeia?
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Capturing the most important parts of the original passage in a
much shorter space and in the reader’s own words – includes
who? where? when? what? why?
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What is a summary?
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