PSSA VocabularyJeopardy Game

PSSA Vocabulary Jeopardy

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$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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