Literature Jeopardy

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Literature Jeopardy
Authors of Fiction
Authors of Non Fiction
Poetry Terms
Types of Poetry
Famous Poets
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from Poetry Terms
The repetition of the initial sounds of several
words
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100 Answer from Poetry Terms
What is alliteration?
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200 Question from Poetry Terms
A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming
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200 Answer from Poetry Terms
What is a couplet?
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300 Question from Poetry Terms
A figure of speech which is an exaggeration or
overstatement
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300 Answer from Poetry Terms
What is a Hyperbole?
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400 Question from Poetry Terms
A figure of speech which gives human qualities to
an object or an animal
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400 Answer from Poetry Terms
What is personification?
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500 Question from Poetry Terms
A figure of speech that makes a comparison
between two unlike objects using the words like
or as
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500 Answer from Poetry Terms
What is a simile?
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100 Question from Types of Poetry
A Japanese poetic form
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100 Answer from Types of Poetry
What is a haiku?
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200 Question from Types of Poetry
A poem consisting of 5 lines. The 1st line has 2
syllables, the 2nd line has 4 syllables, the
3rd line has 6 syllables, the 4th line has 8
syllables, the final line has 2 syllables
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200 Answer from Types of Poetry
What is a Cinquain?
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300 Question from Types of Poetry
A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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300 Answer from Types of Poetry
What is Blank Verse?
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400 Question from Types of Poetry
A poem that uses a rhyming scheme of a-a-b-b-a
in which the first, second, and fifth lines of
each stanza rhyme as do the third and fourth
lines
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400 Answer from Types of Poetry
What is Limerick?
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500 Question from Types of Poetry
A traditional song or poem taught to young
children and handed down from generation to
generation
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500 Answer from Types of Poetry
What is a Nursery rhyme?
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100 Question from Famous Poets
He wrote A Light in the Attic
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100 Answer from Famous Poets
Who is Shel Silverstein?
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200 Question from Famous Poets
She wrote Hailstones and Halibut Bones
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200 Answer from Famous Poets
Who is Mary ONeill?
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300 Question from Famous Poets
He wrote A Pizza the Size of the Sun
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300 Answer from Famous Poets
Who is John Prelutsky?
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400 Question from Famous Poets
He wrote The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks
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400 Answer from Famous Poets
Who is John Ciardi?
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500 Question from Famous Poets
She wrote If I Were in Charge of the World
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500 Answer from Famous Poets
Who is Judith Viorst?
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100 Question from Authors of Fiction
She wrote Walk Two Moons
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100 Answer from Authors of Fiction
Who is Sharon Creech?
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200 Question from Authors of Fiction
He wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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200 Answer from Authors of Fiction
Who is Roald Dahl?
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300 Question from Authors of Fiction
He wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle
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300 Answer from Authors of Fiction
Who is Avi?
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400 Question from Authors of Fiction
He wrote The Chocolate Torch
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400 Answer from Authors of Fiction
Who is Patrick Catling?
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500 Question from Authors of Fiction
She wrote Are You There, God? Its Me Margaret
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500 Answer from Authors of Fiction
Who is Judy Bloom?
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100 Question from Authors of Non Fiction
She wrote The Magic School Bus Lost in the
Solar System
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100 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction
Who is Joanna Cole?
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200 Question from Authors of Non Fiction
She wrote The Mount Rushmore Story
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200 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction
Who is Judith St. George?
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300 Question from Authors of Non Fiction
He wrote The Children of Topaz
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300 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction
Who is Michael Tunnel?
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400 Question from Authors of Non Fiction
He wrote Pyramid
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400 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction
Who is David Macaulay?
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500 Question from Authors of Non Fiction
He wrote The Great Wall of China
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500 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction
Who is Leonard E. Fisher?
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Final Jeopardy
She wrote Smoke and Ashes The
Story of the Holocaust
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Final Jeopardy Answer
Who is Barbara Rogasky?