Library terms for seventh grade students reviewed with Jeopardy game!

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4. The cat’s eyes
were jewels
gleaming out of
the darkness.

5. What is a
metaphor?

6. The electric wires
were like a snake.

7. What is a simile?

8. I had to wait an
eternity for the
file to download.

9. What is
hyperbole?

10. The burning
wood crackled
and hissed.

11. What is
onomatopoeia?

12. The wind
whispered to
them as they
ran through
the woods.

13. What is
personification?

14. Don’t look
a gift horse
in the
mouth.

15. What is an idiom?

16. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and
Juliet: it is an example of
_______ when the lovers die
as a result of a plan that was
meant to ensure their
spending the rest of their
lives together.

17. What is irony?

18. The cyclone had set the house down, very gently
- for a cyclone - in the midst of a country of
marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches
of green sward all about, with stately trees
bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of
gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds
with rare and brilliant plumage sang and
fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way
off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling
along between green banks, and murmuring in
a voice very grateful to a little girl who had
lived so long on the dry, gray prairies..

19. What is imagery?

20. An eagle
started it, but
a dove stopped
the war.

21. What is
symbolism?

22. Finger is to ring
as nose is to
glasses

23. What is an
analogy?

24. Who shot the 3 pointer
that tied Kansas with
Memphis and opened
the way to their NCAA
Championship win in
2008?

25. Who was Mario
Chalmers?

26. This hall of fame
basketball player
played for KU
from 1955-1958.

27. Who is Wilt
Chamberlain?

28. The team that won
3 Super Bowls in
the 1990’s.

29. Who are the
Dallas
Cowboys?

30. The 1st sport
televised in
the United
States

31. What is
baseball?

32. The number of
members in a
NASCAR pit crew

33. What is 7

34. The vice president
for Bill Clinton and
author of “An
Inconvenient
Truth”

35. Who is Al
Gore?

36. The capitol
of Italy

37. What is
Rome?

38. Names of the
continents in
the world.

39. What are Africa,
Antarctica, Asia,
Australia, Europe,
North America, South
America?

40. This occurred
in San
Francisco April
18, 1906.

41. What was the
San Francisco
Earthquake?

42. Where the
historical step
for mankind
was taken July
21, 1969.

43. What is the
moon?

44. Beware! This
genre might
scare you!

45. What is horror
or suspense?

46. A list of resources
arranged
alphabetically by
author and title.

47. What is a
bibliography?

48. Four types of
reference
books found in
most libraries.

49. What are
Dictionary,
Encyclopedia, Atlas
and Thesaurus or
Almanac

50. The genre often
characterized by
Myth, Magic and
Medievalism?

51. What is
Fantasy?

52. The card that gives
Kansas students free
access to online
tutoring, audio books,
and databases such as
SIRS and World Book

53. What is the Kansas
Library Card?

54. The system used to
organize library
materials
-particularly
nonfiction

55. What is the Dewey
Decimal
Classification
System?

56. Area of the library
with aids for
finding
information
(such as encyclopedias, atlases and
almanacs)

57. What is reference?

58. A law that protects a
published work from
unauthorized use

59. What is
copyright?

60. Three common
ways to search an
automated library
catalog.

61. What are Title,
Author and
Subject.?

62. The definition
of
CENSORSHIP

63. What is restricting
of access to
materials a person
or small group find
objectionable.

64. Make your wager
Hint: Kansas Trivia

65. Final Answer
The name of the
first battle and the battle
commander (in case of a tie) of
the Vietnam War.

66. Final Question:
What was
La Drang?
(Commanded by Hal Moore)