This document contains a Jeopardy-style game board with categories about literary elements, including punctuation, figures of speech, parts of speech, and genres. The game has 5 categories with 5 clues in each worth $100 to $500. The clues test knowledge of literary terms like similes, metaphors, nouns, verbs and literary forms such as novels, short stories, comedies and tragedies.

2. Punctuation Literary Figures of Speech Parts of Speech Literary Genres
Elements
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Final
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Jeopardy

3. C1 $100
Placed at the end of a
sentence to demonstrate
a question.

4. C1? $100
What is a question mark?

5. C1 $200
Marks used to show
separation between
words, sentences, and
phrases.

6. C1 $200
What is a punctuation
mark?

7. C1 $300
Used to connect
independent clauses and
it indicates a closer
meaning than a period.

8. C1 $300
What is a semi-colon?

9. C1 $400
A mark used to show
omission from a sentence.

10. C1 $400
What are ellipsis marks?

11. C1 final
The final Jeopardy answer is:
The use of a comma to
join two independent
clauses.
Timer

12. C1 final
What is a comma slice?

13. C2 $100
The solution.

14. C2 $100
What is the resolution?

15. C2 $200
Hints to what is going to
happen next.

16. C2 $200
What is foreshadowing?

17. C2 $300
The highest point of the
text.

18. C2 $300
What is the climax?

19. C2 $400
The essence of fiction, it
creates the plot.

20. C2 $400
What is the conflict?

21. C2 $500
Introductory material.

22. C2 $500
What is the exposition?

23. C3 $100
Comparing using like or as.

24. C3 $100
What is a simile?

25. C3 $200
Implied comparison.

26. C3 $200
What is a metaphor?

27. C3 $300
Giving human
characteristics to
nonhumans.

28. C3 $300
What is personification?

29. C3 $400
Repeated consonant
sounds.

30. C3 $400
What is alliteration?

31. C3 $500
Words that mimic sounds.

32. C3 $500
What is an onomatopoeia?

33. C4 $100
Person, place or thing.

34. C4 $100
What is a noun?

35. C4 $200
Action word.

36. C4 $200
What is a verb?

37. C4 $300
This can replace a noun.

38. C4 $300
What is a pronoun?

39. C4 $400
Indicates how, when, or
where an action takes
place.

40. C4 $400
What is an adverb?

41. C4 $500
Function words that
connect nouns or pronouns
to another word.

42. C4 $500
What are prepositions?

43. C5 $100
An extended fictional
work in prose.

44. C5 $100
What is a novel?

45. C5 $200
A short piece if prose
fiction.

46. C5 $200
What is a short story?

47. C5 $300
Light and humorous drama
what a happy ending.

48. C5 $300
What is a comedy?

49. C5 $400
The main character is
brought to ruin, or
extreme sorrow in the
end.

50. C5 $400
What is a tragedy?

51. C5 $500
A long narrative poem
about a hero’s deeds.

52. C5 $500
What is an epic poem?

53. This Jeopardy game was created by
(Rebecca Buzak)
This Jeopardy template was created by Dr. Robert Pettis, Director
An Adventure of the American Mind, University of South Carolina Spartanburg