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1 Literary Terms Jeopardy English 9

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3 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

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

5 $100 Question from Big Words The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop.

6 $100 Answer from Big Words What is onomatopoeia?

7 $200 Question from Big Words The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.

8 $200 Answer from Big Words What is alliteration?

9 $300 Question from Big Words A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.

10 $300 Answer from Big Words What is personification?

11 $400 Question from Big Words A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.

12 $400 Answer from Big Words What is iambic pentameter?

13 $500 Question from Big Words Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.

14 $500 Answer from Big Words What is assonance?

15 $100 Question from Rhyme Time Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

16 $100 Answer from Rhyme Time What is free verse?

17 $200 Question from Rhyme Time A metrical foot or unit of measure that consist on an unstressed syllable followed by a a stressed syllable.)

18 $200 Answer from Rhyme Time What is iambic?

19 $300 Question from Rhyme Time Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

20 $300 Answer from Rhyme Time What is blank verse?

21 $400 Question from Rhyme Time Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.

22 $400 Answer from Rhyme Time What is a refrain?

23 $500 Question from Rhyme Time Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

24 $500 Answer from Rhyme Time What is a couplet?

25 $100 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.

26 $100 Answer from Word Plays What is a synonym?

27 $200 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.

28 $200 Answer from Word Plays What is an antonym?

29 $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.

30 $300 Answer from Word Plays What is a simile?

31 $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.

32 $400 Answer from Word Plays What is a pun?

33 $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.

34 $500 Answer from Word Plays What is figurative language?

35 $100 Question from Think About It A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.

36 $100 Answer from Think About It What is a stanza or verse?

37 $200 Question from Think About It The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

38 $200 Answer from Think About It What is tone?

39 $300 Question from Think About It A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth.

40 $300 Answer from Think About It What is a paradox?

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 of letter(s)

42 $400 Answer from Think About It What is an apostrophe?

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.

44 $500 Answer from Think About It What is symbolism?

45 $100 Question from Poetic Types Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.

46 $100 Answer from Poetic Types What is prose?

47 $200 Question from Poetic Types A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.

48 $200 Answer from Poetic Types What is haiku?

49 $300 Question from Poetic Types A light or humorous verse form of five verses

50 $300 Answer from Poetic Types What is a limerick?

51 $400 Question from Poetic Types A song that tells a story.

52 $400 Answer from Poetic Types What is a ballad?

53 $500 Question from Poetic Types Fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.

54 $500 Answer from Poetic Types What is a sonnet?

55 Final Jeopardy The apparent paradox achieved by the use of words which seem to contradict one another.

56 Final Jeopardy Answer What is an oxymoron? Need more help? Poetic Terms Poetic Terminology Take the Literary Terms Test Literary Terms Crossword

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