Literary Terms Jeopardy

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Literary Terms Jeopardy

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Literary Terms Jeopardy
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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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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 gross exaggeration.
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400 Answer from Big Words
What is hyperbole?
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500 Question from Big Words
Comparisons that use like/as/than/ resembles AND
comparisons that do not use like/as/than/
resembles (typically use is/are/was/ were).
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500 Answer from Big Words
What are similes and metaphors?
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100 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry that does not have a regular rhyme scheme,
but has rhythm.
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100 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is free verse?
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200 Question from Rhyme Time
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form
a single unit (poetry paragraphs).
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What is stanza?
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300 Question from Rhyme Time
Fourteen line poem that has a rhyme scheme.
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What is sonnet?
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400 Question from Rhyme Time
Songlike quality that has rhyming lines and shows
emotion about a subject.
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What is lyric poem?
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500 Question from Rhyme Time
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
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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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What is a synonym?
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200 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words that have opposite
meanings.
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What is an antonym?
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300 Question from Word Plays
Words that have an emotional meaning attached
versus words that have a dictionary definition.
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300 Answer from Word Plays
What is connotation versus denotation?
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400 Question from Word Plays
An expression that means something other than its
literal meaning.
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What is idiom?
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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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What is figurative language?
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100 Question from Think About It
Used to further explain and is typically set off
by punctuation.
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100 Answer from Think About It
What is appositive?
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200 Question from Think About It
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience,
a subject, or a character.
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200 Answer from Think About It
What is tone?
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300 Question from Think About It
The feeling the reader gets from a literary work.
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300 Answer from Think About It
What is mood?
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400 Question from Think About It
Writing that uses same word endings, verb tense,
sentence structure/length, and repetition.
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400 Answer from Think About It
What is parallelism?
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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.
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What is symbolism?
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100 Question from Poetic Types
A sad poem that deals with death.
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100 Answer from Poetic Types
What is elegy?
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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 poem that has no rhythm or rhyme
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What is blank verse?
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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
A long poem that tells a story with a hero that
accomplishes great deeds, and a villain that that
typically dies.
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What is epic poetry?
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Final Jeopardy
A poem that takes on a shape of what it is
describing.
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What is a concrete poem?