Jeopardy Poetry Terms Q 1 Q 6 Q 11 Q 16 Q 21 Q 2 Q 7 Q 12 Q 17 Q 22 Final Jeopardy
Question 1 The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Answer 1 What is – alliteration?
Question 2 Language enriched by word images and figures of speech.
Answer 2 What is – figurative language ?
Question 3 A figure of speech which uses a deliberate exaggeration.
Answer 3 What is – hyperbole ?
Question 4 Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
Answer 4 What is – rhyme ?
Question 5 Wrote “Straw into Gold”
Answer 5 Sandra Cisneros
Question 6 Wrote ”Death of a Hired Man”
Answer 6 Robert Frost
Question 7 Words whose sound imitates their suggested meaning.
Answer 7 What is – onomatopoeia ?
Question 8 Wrote “Because I could not stop for Death”
Answer 8 Emily Dickinson
Question 9 The close repetition of middle vowel sounds.
Answer 9 What is – assonance ?
Question 10 A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or ideas.
Answer 10 What is – personification ?
Question 11 A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”
Answer 11 What is – simile ?
Question 12 A rhyme between words in the same line .
Answer 12 What is – internal rhyme ?
Question 13 The reflection of an author’s attitude toward his or her subject.
Answer 13 What is – tone?
Question 14 Wrote “Harlem”
Answer 14 Langston Hughes
Question 15 A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only .
Answer 15 What is – approximate or slant rhyme ?
Question 16 Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for a reader.
Answer 16 What is – imagery ?
Question 17 The repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds.
Answer 17 What is – consonance ?
Question 18 A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things.
Answer 18 What is – a metaphor ?
Question 19 The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza .
Answer 19 What is – rhyme scheme ?
Question 20 A statement that contradicts itself yet is true.
Answer 20 What is – paradox ?
Question 21 One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
Answer 21 What is – a stanza ?
Question 22 A reference to a famous work of art or literature
Answer 22 What is – allusion ?
Question 23 Two lines of verse with similar end-rhymes.
Answer 23 What is – a couplet ?
Question 24 Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern. .
Answer 24 What is – free verse ?
A measurable, patterned unit of poetic rhythm.
What is – a foot ?
Wrote “Rules of the Game”
Amy Tan
Wrote “A Mystery of Heroism”
Stephen Crane
Wrote his life story in a book that also shows the evils of slavery
Frederick Douglass
Speaking to an inanimate object, an idea, or absent person
apostrophe
Wrote “I Hear America Singing”
Walt Whitman
use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning e
parallelism
Literature has four main genres. What are they?
Poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction
Songs or poems primarily meant to convey popular messages, stories, or historical events
ballads
factual story about someone's life It is a part of the non-fiction literary genre and is usually told in the first person.
memoir
an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.
foreshadow
Wrote Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
Who wrote “A Rose for Emily”?
Wiilliam Faulkner