Language Features Jeopardy Year 10 English Language Features

Language Features Jeopardy Year 10 English

Language Features Jeopardy Big Words Everyday Word Plays Think About It Imagery Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Big Words The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop.

$100 Answer from Big Words What is onomatopoeia?

$200 Question from Big Words The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.

$200 Answer from Big Words What is alliteration?

$300 Question from Big Words A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.

$300 Answer from Big Words What is personification?

$400 Question from Big Words An obvious and intentional exaggeration. Example: “I could sleep for a thousand years”

$400 Answer from Big Words What is hyperbole?

$500 Question from Big Words An expression of two words that contradict each other. Examples: “random order”, “definite possibility”

$500 Answer from Big Words What is an oxymoron?

$100 Question from Everyday A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.

$100 Answer from Everyday What is a pun?

$200 Question from Everyday An expression that was once interesting and vivid, but has been used so many times it no longer means much. Example: : pretty as a picture”

$200 Answer from Everyday What is a cliché?

$300 Question from Everyday Technical terms related to a specific subject and used to talk about the subject in a knowledgeable way.

$300 Answer from Everyday What is jargon?

$400 Question from Everyday Words and phrases that belong to everyday speech.

$400 Answer from Everyday What is colloquial?

$500 Question from Everyday A comparison based on the similar features of two things used to explain a concept. Example: comparing the human heart to a pump.

$500 Answer from Everyday What is analogy?

$100 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.

$100 Answer from Word Plays What is a synomym?

$200 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.

$200 Answer from Word Plays What is an antonym?

$300 Question from Word Plays Two words that are spelt the same and sound the same but have different meanings.

$300 Answer from Word Plays What is a homonym?

$400 Question from Word Plays A word that sounds like another word. Usually doesn't have the same meaning or spelling and the words are often confused.

$400 Answer from Word Plays What is a homophone?

$500 Question from Word Plays The feelings, emotions and shades of meaning suggested by a word or phrase, as opposed to the literal meaning of the word.

$500 Answer from Word Plays What is connotation?

$100 Question from Think About It The placement of two images (usually fairly similar, but with some differences) next to each other so that the differences become really obvious.

$100 Answer from Think About It What is juxtaposition?

$200 Question from Think About It An imitation or mimicking of a text, especially using exaggeration to create humour.

$200 Answer from Think About It What is parody?

$300 Question from Think About It A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.

$300 Answer from Think About It What is an allusion?

$400 Question from Think About It The use of a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.

$400 Answer from Think About It What is symbolism?

$500 Question from Think About It A statement that seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth.

$500 Answer from Think About It What is a paradox?

$100 Question from Imagery A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than. .

$100 Answer from Imagery What is a simile?

$200 Question from Imagery A comparison of unlike things. This kind of comparison creates a powerful image where a quality of one thing reveals something about the other.

$200 Answer from Imagery What is a metaphor?

$300 Question from Imagery A figure of speech where a word is used that we associate with the intended meaning. Example: the crown when we mean royalty or the government.

$300 Answer from Imagery What is metonymy?

$400 Question from Imagery A figure of speech where the meaning intended is different or opposite to what is actually said or done.

$400 Answer from Imagery What is irony?

$500 Question from Imagery The use of words that go beyond their ordinary meaning. It requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning.

$500 Answer from Imagery What is figurative language?

Final Jeopardy Saying the same thing twice but in different words. Example: I was feeling miserable and very unhappy .

Final Jeopardy Answer What is tautology?