Jeopardy Grammatical Terms Literary Terms Learning & Studying Strategies Writing Punctuation Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Grammatical Terms A clause that cannot be used as a complete sentence by itself.

$100 Answer Grammatical Terms What is a Dependent Clause and/or Subordinate Clause?

$200 Question from Grammatical Terms A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator.

$200 Answer from Grammatical Terms What is a Compound Sentence?

$300 Question from Grammatical Terms A sentence that has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. This type of sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when, or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which.

$300 Answer from Grammatical Terms What is a Complex Sentence?

$400 Question from Grammatical Terms F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. is an acronym that can be used to remember this grammatical term.

$400 Answer from Grammatical Terms What is a Coordinating Conjunction?

$500 Question from Grammatical Terms Two independent clauses joined ONLY by a comma.

$500 Answer from Grammatical Terms What is a Comma Splice?

$100 Question from Literary Terms A reference to historical or fictional characters, places, or events, or to other works the writer assumes the reader will recognize.

$100 Answer from Literary Terms What is an Allusion?

$200 Question from Literary Terms The ways in which an author reveals a character (physical description; what the character says; what others say about the character; the characters actions; direct descriptions).

$200 Answer from Literary Terms What is Characterization?

$300 Question from Literary Terms A character used to contrast another character.

$300 Answer from Literary Terms What is a Foil?

$400 Question from Literary Terms A scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to go backward and tell and what happened at an earlier time.

$400 Answer from Literary Terms What is a Flashback?

$500 Question from Literary Terms Clues that hint at what will happen later in the story.

$500 Answer from Literary Terms What is Foreshadowing?

$100 Question from Learning & Studying Strategies A note taking strategy that incorporates abbreviations, acronyms, Costa questions, & summarization.

$100 Answer from Learning & Studying Strategies What are Cornell Notes?

$200 Question from Learning & Studying Strategies Abbreviated notes a student scholar writes in the margins of his/her text in an attempt to summarize, question, further clarify, and define unknown vocabulary terms.

$200 Answer from Learning & Studying Strategies What are Annotations?

$300 Question from Learning & Studying Strategies Questions that are arranged into three different categories and/or levels. The higher the numerical number the more difficult the question.

$300 Answer from Learning & Studying Strategies What are Costas Levels of Questioning?

$400 Question from Learning & Studying Strategies R.A.P. is an acronym used to recall this learning and studying strategy. The letters in the acronym stand for…

$400 Answer from Learning & Studying Strategies What is Read, Annotate, & Process?

$500 Question from Learning & Studying Strategies Putting what is read into ones own words and in an abbreviated fashion.

$500 Answer from Learning & Studying Strategies What is Paraphrase?

$100 Question from Writing This sentence restates the topic sentence in different words, summarizes the paragraph, and finalizes the writers thoughts.

$100 Answer from Writing What is a Concluding or Clincher Sentence?

$200 Question from Writing First, meanwhile, afterwards, finally, however, furthermore, as a result, in fact, nonetheless, and yet are all examples of…

$200 Answer from Writing What are Transition Words?

$300 Question from Writing This type of paragraph tells a story.

$300 Answer from Writing What is a Narrative Paragraph?

$400 Question from Writing The job of the sentences in- between both the topic sentence and the concluding or clincher sentence.

$400 Answer from Writing What is to Support?

$500 Question from Writing A paragraph that gives information or explains something.

$500 Answer from Writing What is an Expository or Explanatory Paragraph?

$100 Question from Punctuation This form of punctuation is used to set off the elements of a series (three or more things), including the last two.

$100 Answer from Punctuation What is a Comma?

$200 Question from Punctuation This form of punctuation is frequently used to introduce lists.

$200 Answer from Punctuation What is a Colon?

$300 Question from Punctuation This form of punctuation can be used to divide two independent clauses that are closely linked and is used in place of a period.

$300 Answer from Punctuation What is a Semi-Colon?

$400 Question from Punctuation A punctuation mark used to indicate either possession or the omission of letters or numbers.

$400 Answer from Punctuation What is an Apostrophe?

$500 Question from Punctuation This form of punctuation can be used to set off a parenthetical element- added information.

$500 Answer from Punctuation What is a Comma?

Final Jeopardy This poet wrote, Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…

Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Robert Frost? (The poem is entitled The Road Not Taken.)