Figurative Language Jeopardy
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The document provides examples of different types of figurative language and literary devices like metaphor, simile, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idiom, irony, analogy, imagery, and symbolism. It then provides examples from history, sports, and other topics to test the reader in matching questions to answers.
Figurative Language Jeopardy
- 1. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.
- 2. Click here for Final Je
- 3. Figurative Language Literary Device History Library Resources Library Terms 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points Sports
- 4. The cat’s eyes were jewels gleaming out of the darkness.
- 6. Like a writhing snake, the broken electric wires hissed and twitched in the grass.
- 7. What is a simile?
- 8. I had to wait an eternity for the file to download.
- 10. The burning wood crackled and hissed.
- 12. The wind whispered to them as they ran through the woods.
- 14. Take your umbrella, it’s raining cats and dogs
- 15. What is an idiom?
- 16. A terrorist didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It was returned, marked “return to sender”. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
- 17. What is irony?
- 18. A longer, more detailed comparison of two ideas or situations.
- 19. What is analogy?
- 20. They sat for a full minute chewing gum slowly and watching each other, then Jimmy released the emergency brake and they rolled slowly along the drying sand road and down past the huge cleansing dawn coming, and the pine forests growing tall in the rising mists, and the quickly quiet waters of eternal spring.
- 21. What is imagery?
- 22. Flowing water suggesting time and eternity or a voyage suggesting life…
- 24. By NFL rules these players must wear numbers 20 - 49
- 26. He holds the record for pitching the fastest fastball and was nicknamed the “Strikout King”
- 28. An “old school” term for a football field?
- 29. What is grid iron?
- 30. After a crowd booed him, this pitcher sent all the players on the field to the dugout and struck out 9 consecutive batters in 1935
- 32. USFL formed in the 1980s and only lasted a couple of seasons
- 33. What is the United States Football League?
- 34. The leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
- 35. Who was Robert E. Lee?
- 36. December 7, 1941
- 37. When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- 38. In the 1920s this made making, buying and selling of alcoholic beverages illegal
- 40. The name for the reform movements to abolish acts of discrimination from 1955 - 1968
- 41. What was the Civil Rights Movement?
- 42. He was the president before JFK that was from Abilene, Kansas.
- 43. Who was President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower?
- 44. A written account of a person’s life
- 46. A list of resources arranged alphabetically by author and title.
- 48. A collection of data (such as articles) accessible by computer
- 50. Resources that provide original research or documentation? (such as the Declaration of Independence)
- 51. What is a primary source?
- 52. Organized body of past publications preserved for record keeping and research purposes
- 54. Librarian that devised the classification system for library materials
- 56. Area of the library with aids for finding information (such as enclyclopedias, atlases and almanacs)
- 58. A law that protects a published work from unauthorized use
- 60. ILL, ISBN or URL
- 61. What are acronyms? Interlibrary Loan International Standardized Book Number or Uniform Resource Locator
- 62. Restricting access to materials deemed objectionable Morally, politically or religiously
- 64. Make your wager
- 66. Final Question: What are AND OR NOT?