SLIDE 1 Literary Terms Jeopardy
English 9
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SLIDE 3 Literary Terms Jeopardy
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SLIDE 4 Literary Terms Jeopardy
Big Words Rhyme Time Word Plays Think About It Poetic Types Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 Question from Big Words
The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop.
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$100 Answer from Big Words
What is onomatopoeia?
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$200 Question from Big Words
The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
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$200 Answer from Big Words
What is alliteration?
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$300 Question from Big Words
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.
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$300 Answer from Big Words
What is personification?
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$400 Question from Big Words
A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.
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$400 Answer from Big Words
What is iambic pentameter?
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$500 Question from Big Words
Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.
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$500 Answer from Big Words
What is assonance?
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$100 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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$100 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is free verse?
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$200 Question from Rhyme Time
A metrical foot or unit of measure that consist on an unstressed syllable followed by a a stressed syllable.)
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$200 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is iambic?
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$300 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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$300 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is blank verse?
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$400 Question from Rhyme Time
Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
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$400 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is a refrain?
SLIDE 23 $500 Question from Rhyme Time
Two consecutive lines
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$500 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is a couplet?
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$100 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.
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$100 Answer from Word Plays
What is a synonym?
SLIDE 27 $200 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words that have
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$200 Answer from Word Plays
What is an antonym?
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$300 Question from Word Plays
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.
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$300 Answer from Word Plays
What is a simile?
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$400 Question from Word Plays
A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
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$400 Answer from Word Plays
What is a pun?
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$500 Question from Word Plays
The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.
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$500 Answer from Word Plays
What is figurative language?
SLIDE 35 $100 Question from Think About It
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
SLIDE 36 $100 Answer from Think About It
What is a stanza or verse?
SLIDE 37 $200 Question from Think About It
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
SLIDE 38 $200 Answer from Think About It
What is tone?
SLIDE 39 $300 Question from Think About It
A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth.
SLIDE 40 $300 Answer from Think About It
What is a paradox?
SLIDE 41 $400 Question from Think About It
A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a punctuation mark is used to indicate the omission
SLIDE 42 $400 Answer from Think About It
What is an apostrophe?
SLIDE 43 $500 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.
SLIDE 44 $500 Answer from Think About It
What is symbolism?
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$100 Question from Poetic Types
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.
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$100 Answer from Poetic Types
What is prose?
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$200 Question from Poetic Types
A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.
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$200 Answer from Poetic Types
What is haiku?
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$300 Question from Poetic Types
A light or humorous verse form of five verses
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$300 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a limerick?
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$400 Question from Poetic Types
A song that tells a story.
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$400 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a ballad?
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$500 Question from Poetic Types
Fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
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$500 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a sonnet?
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Final Jeopardy
The apparent paradox achieved by the use of words which seem to contradict one another.
SLIDE 56 Final Jeopardy Answer
What is an oxymoron?
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