1. Figurative Language Jeopardy
Analogies
What is it?
Poems
Literary Terms
More: What is it?
Analogy
Types 10 20 30 40 50

2. Final Jeopardy Question
If Mr. Wood’s homeroom stands on the sidewalk by the sixth grade building, and Ms. Everett and Mrs. Henry jump off the top of the Sixth grade building, each holding forty-eight helium balloons, which member of Mr. Wood’s homeroom is the last to get out of the way?

3. Son : Father : : Daughter : _______________
Analogies 10
Son : Father : : Daughter : _______________
Category

4. Four : Rectangle : : Three :
analogies 20
Four : Rectangle : : Three :
_______________
Category

5. analogies 30
Mitten : Hand : : Sock : _________

6. Worm : Soil : : ________ : Water
Analogies 40
Worm : Soil : : ________ : Water

7. analogies 50
Stem : Flower : : Trunk : _________________

8. The ball went swish as it passed through the basketball net?
What is it? 10
The ball went swish as it passed through the basketball net?
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration

9. The fly buzzed past me as I sat on the bench.
What is it?20
The fly buzzed past me as I sat on the bench.
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Hyperbole
metaphor

10. Don’t tell mom that her cookies taste like lumps of sand.
what is it? 30
Don’t tell mom that her cookies taste like lumps of sand.

11. The rain dropped dime shaped dollops on the deck.
What is it?40
Harriet
The rain dropped dime shaped dollops on the deck.

12. What is it? 50
The snow whispered as it fell to the ground during the early morning hours.

13. poems 10
Flint
An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world's desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti
Question:
The first line of this poem contains an example of figurative language. What is it called?

14. Poems 20 What is the underlined section of this poem an example of?
Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room.
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run. William Blake
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What is the underlined section of this poem an example of?

15. Life is a broken-winged bird
Poems 30
Dreams  
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
The underlined section of this poem contains a ____________.

16. Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost
Poems 40
Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street
This underlined section uses what example of figurative language?

17. Poems 50
The rusty spigot
sputters,
utters
a splutter,
spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider;
slash
splatters
scatters
spurts
finally stops sputtering
and plash!
gushes rushes splashes
clear water dashes.
This poem uses what type of figurative language? It is used over and over.

18. Poetry/literary terms 10
Define Personification.

19. Poetry/literary terms 20
Define simile and give an example.

20. Poetry/Literary terms 30
Define metaphor and give an example.

21. Poetry/literary terms 40
What does hyperbole mean?

22. Poetry/Literary terms 50
Define idiom and give an example

23. More: What is it? 10
The juicy steak sizzled on the grill.

24. The sidewalk is as slippery as greased glass.
More: What is it? 20
The sidewalk is as slippery as greased glass.

25. More: What is it? 30
The plates danced on the shelves during the earthquake.

26. More: What is it? 40
Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.

27. I am so tired that I could sleep for a week!
More: What is it? 50
I am so tired that I could sleep for a week!

28. Analogy Types 10 Happy : Joyous : : Mad : Angry
What is the analogy Type?

29. Analogy Type 20
Hand : finger : : Foot : Toe
What is the analogy type?

30. Fruit : Apple : : Vegetable : carrot What is the analogy type?

31. Hot : Cold : : Sky : Ground What analogy type is this?

32. Fast: Cheetah :: Slow : Turtle What analogy type is this?