This board helps players review English / ELA · Middle School (grades 6-8) through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Grammar Check, Reading Skills, Literary Devices, Writing, Vocabulary. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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- Test prep
- Team trivia
- Group play
- Family game night
A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
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Noun
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What is the central message or lesson of a story called?
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Theme
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What comparison uses like or as?
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Simile
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What sentence states the main idea of an essay?
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Thesis statement
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What is a word with the opposite meaning called?
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Antonym
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Board content
Grammar Check
- $100 — What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
- Noun
- $200 — What punctuation mark ends a direct question?
- Question mark
- $300 — What part of speech modifies a verb?
- Adverb
- $400 — What is the subject in: The tired dog slept?
- Dog
- $500 — What type of sentence gives a command?
- Imperative
Reading Skills
- $100 — What is the central message or lesson of a story called?
- Theme
- $200 — What do you call a guess based on text evidence?
- Inference
- $300 — What is a story's time and place called?
- Setting
- $400 — What is the struggle between opposing forces called?
- Conflict
- $500 — What is the narrator's attitude toward a subject called?
- Tone
Literary Devices
- $100 — What comparison uses like or as?
- Simile
- $200 — What gives human qualities to nonhuman things?
- Personification
- $300 — What is repeated beginning consonant sound called?
- Alliteration
- $400 — What is an extreme exaggeration called?
- Hyperbole
- $500 — What device hints at events that will happen later?
- Foreshadowing
Writing
- $100 — What sentence states the main idea of an essay?
- Thesis statement
- $200 — What paragraph wraps up an essay?
- Conclusion
- $300 — What should every body paragraph support?
- Main idea
- $400 — What do writers use to connect ideas smoothly?
- Transitions
- $500 — What is revising mostly focused on improving?
- Content
Vocabulary
- $100 — What is a word with the opposite meaning called?
- Antonym
- $200 — What is a word with a similar meaning called?
- Synonym
- $300 — What word part comes before a root word?
- Prefix
- $400 — What word part comes after a root word?
- Suffix
- $500 — What clue uses nearby words to figure out meaning?
- Context clue
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