This board helps players review Writing & grammar through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Literary Devices, Figurative Language, Story Elements, Word Choice, Proofreading Marks. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
- Classroom review
- 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.
This compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
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Simile
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This expression means something different from its literal words.
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Idiom
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This is the time and place of a story.
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Setting
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This is a word's dictionary definition.
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Denotation
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This edit removes a word or phrase.
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Delete
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Board content
Literary Devices
- $100 — This compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
- Simile
- $200 — This directly compares two unlike things without 'like' or 'as'.
- Metaphor
- $300 — This gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
- Personification
- $400 — This uses exaggeration for effect.
- Hyperbole
- $500 — This repeats beginning sounds in nearby words.
- Alliteration
Figurative Language
- $100 — This expression means something different from its literal words.
- Idiom
- $200 — This uses a part to represent a whole, like 'wheels' for a car.
- Synecdoche
- $300 — This uses an associated thing to stand for something, like 'the crown' for monarchy.
- Metonymy
- $400 — This makes a situation seem less important than it is.
- Understatement
- $500 — This uses contradiction to reveal a deeper truth.
- Paradox
Story Elements
- $100 — This is the time and place of a story.
- Setting
- $200 — This is the struggle or problem driving a story.
- Conflict
- $300 — This is the turning point or most intense moment.
- Climax
- $400 — This is the central message or insight of a story.
- Theme
- $500 — This is the perspective from which a story is told.
- Point of view
Word Choice
- $100 — This is a word's dictionary definition.
- Denotation
- $200 — This is the feeling or association a word carries.
- Connotation
- $300 — This is language that appeals to the senses.
- Imagery
- $400 — This is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
- Assonance
- $500 — This is the repetition of consonant sounds, often at the ends of words.
- Consonance
Proofreading Marks
- $100 — This edit removes a word or phrase.
- Delete
- $200 — This edit adds missing words or punctuation.
- Insert
- $300 — This edit changes the order of words or letters.
- Transpose
- $400 — This edit starts text on a new line.
- New paragraph
- $500 — This edit keeps a marked change that might otherwise be removed.
- Stet
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