Literary Terms Jeopardy

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Literary Terms Jeopardy
English 8 Mrs. Aho
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Literary Terms Jeopardy
Rhyme Time
Word Plays
Think About It
Poetic Types
Big Words
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Final Jeopardy
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Literary Terms Jeopardy
Word Plays
Think About It
Rhyme Time
Poetic Types
Big Words
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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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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?
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500 Question from Rhyme Time
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
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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 synomym?
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200 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words that have opposite
meanings.
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200 Answer from Word Plays
What is an anyomym?
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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?
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100 Question from Think About It
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form
a single unit.
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100 Answer from Think About It
What is a stanza?
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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
A statement which seems to be a contradiction but
reveals the truth.
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300 Answer from Think About It
What is a paradox?
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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)
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400 Answer from Think About It
What is an apostrophe?
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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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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.
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What is an oxymoron?

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