Who Wants to Be a Poetry Genius?
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What do writers use to describe how subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell? A: Images A: B: Symbol B: C: Simile C: D: Rhyme D: $100 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer
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What is the term for anything that stands for or represents something else? A: Rhyme A: B: Symbol B: C: Stanza C: D: Alliteration D: $200 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer
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What is a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem called? A: Repetition A: B: Ode B: C: Limerick C: D: Free verse D: $300 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer
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What is it called when a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics? A: Alliteration A: B: Refrain B: C: Onomatopoeia C: D: Personification D: $1,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer
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$1000 Question A: Rhyme A: B: Refrain B: C: Poetry C: D: Repetition D: $1,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song called?
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What is a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker called? $2000 Question A: Lyric Poem A: B: Free Verse B: C: Ode C: D: Limerick D: $2,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer
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$4000 Question A: Lyric Poem A: B: Epic Poem B: C: Ode C: D: Haiku D: $4,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a long narrative poem that tells of a hero’s deeds?
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$8000 Question A: Rhyme Scheme A: B: Repetition B: C: Atmosphere C: D: Metaphor D: $8,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a regular pattern of rhyming words called in a poem?
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$16000 Question A: Ballad A: B: Limerick B: C: Ode C: D: Alliteration D: $16,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a type of lyric poem that praises people, music, nature, or abstract concepts?
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$32000 Question A: Poetry A: B: Alliteration B: C: Symbol C: D: Metaphor D: $32,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is it called when one idea/object is described as something else? It is not literal!
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$64000 Question A: Alliteration A: B: Rhyme B: C: Repetition C: D: Refrain D: $64,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is the repetition of CONSONANT sounds called?
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A: Haiku A: B: Limerick B: C: Ballad C: D: Epic Poem D: $125,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a narrative poem that is intended to be sung called? $ Question
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$ Question A: Figurative language A: B: Images B: C: Metaphor C: D: Atmosphere D: $250,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is the mood or feeling that is created by a literary work or passage called?
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$ Question A: Poetry A: B: Simile B: C: Symbol C: D: Metaphor D: $500,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between two unlike things?
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$1 Million Question A: Epic Poem A: B: Free Verse B: C: Poetry C: D: Personification D: $500,000 Question Click on the letter of the correct answer What is a type of literature that uses musical and emotional language as well as imagery and figurative language?
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Remember there are 7 more poetry terms that you will be tested on: Rhyme, Haiku, Repetition, Stanza, Onomatopoeia, Free verse, and Figurative language