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 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

A person who tells a story or gives an account of what happened $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?

A segment of a written work or speech $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?

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

$400 Answer from PSSA Terms What is main idea?

The solution to a problem; Where the conflict is resolved $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 instructs Ex: How to, recipe

$200 Answer from Nonfiction Genres What is instructional?

The story of a person’s entire life written by himself or herself $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?

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

$200 Answer from Text Analysis What is an inference?

A broad statement that applies to many different situations. $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?

A statement you can prove to be true. $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?

The reason an author writes a passage $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?

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

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

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

$400 Answer from Open-Ended What is climax?

The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities $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?

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

$100 Answer Literary Devices What is a simile?

A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as. $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?

Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea $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?

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

$400 Answer from Literary Devices What is a hyperbole?

Imitation of natural sounds, words you hear Ex: splat, bang, ding-dong $500 Literary Devices Imitation of natural sounds, words you hear Ex: splat, bang, ding-dong

$500 Answer from Literary Devices What is an onomatopoeia?

FINAL JEOPARDY! 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?

FINAL JEOPARDY! What is a summary?

You Have Finished PSSA Jeopardy!