Welcome to Jeopardy!

Rules of Jeopardy Split up into groups of 4-5 students. Each group will get one whiteboard and marker. One student with great handwriting will write answers on the board. For each question, discuss the answer with your group. Do not show your answer until the teacher says “One, Two, Three, Poetry!” Any group using notes will be disqualified. For each question you answer correctly, you will get a point. If you don’t get a question correct, you will not get a point. The group with the most points will win the game!

Question #1: What is this an example of? Answer: Metaphor “Life is a barren field frozen with snow.” Answer: Metaphor

Question #2 What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as? Answer: Simile

Question #3 What did the caged bird symbolize in the “Caged Bird” poem? Answer: African American people/slaves

Question #4 What is it called when human qualities are given to animals and objects? Answer: Personification

Question #5 What is it called when an author uses the five senses to create a picture in the reader’s mind in a poem? Answer: Imagery

Question #6 What is this an example of? “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” Answer: Alliteration

Question #7 True or False? Lines in a poem always follow the rules of capitalization and punctuation that you see in other types of writing. Answer: False

Question #8 What is this called? A type of writing in which words are chosen and arranged to create strong feelings, messages, or images through meaning, sound and rhythm. Answer: Poem

Question #9 What type of writing is prose used in? Novels Poems Answer: A

Question #10 What is a group of lines in a poem set apart by spaces? Answer: Stanza

Question #11 What are these two words an example of? Rage, Cage Answer: Rhyme

Question #12 Is this the correct rhyme scheme for this poem? Nature’s first green is gold, - A Her hardest hue to hold. - A Her early leaf’s a flower; - B But only so an hour. - B Then leaf subsides to leaf. - C So Eden sank to grief, - C So dawn goes down to day. - D Nothing gold can stay. - D Answer: Yes

Question #13 Tone is the ____________’s attitude towards the topic of the poem. Reader Speaker Answer: B

Question #14 ______________ is the underlying message the author wants to share with the reader. Theme Point of View Speaker Answer: A

Question #15 ______________ is the perspective from which the story is narrated. Theme Point of View Speaker Answer: B

Question #16 Speaker is like the ________________ of a poem. Point of View Narrator Poet Answer: B

Question #17 ∪ What is this symbol used to represent? Answer: Unstressed Syllable

Question #18 What is it called when an author repeats words, lines, or stanzas in a poem? Answer: Repetition

Question #19 What does this symbol represent? / Answer: Stressed Syllable

Question #20 What is this an example of? ∪ / Answer: Foot

Question #21 What type of meter is this? ∪ / ∪ / HoldI fastI toI dreamsI Answer: Dimeter

Question #22 ____________ is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Meter Rhythm Beat Answer: B

Question #23 True or False? Connotation is the dictionary definition of a word. Answer: False

Question #24 Racism: prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Is this an example of denotation or connotation? Answer: Denotation

Question #25 True or False? A stanza is a group of lines in a poem set apart by spaces. Answer: True

Question #26 True or False? Prose is the type of writing found in poetry. Answer: False, prose is found in novels.

Bonus Round: Worth 6 Points! Name the 6 kinds of poetry we have discussed this semester. Answer: Ode, sonnet, epic poem, lyric poem, ballad, and free verse.

To the Death Round! Rules: Each team will wager as many of their points as they want. (For example: If you have 20 points, you can wager up to 20 points.) If the team answers the question incorrectly, then they lose the points they wagered. If the team answers the question correctly, then they will add the amount of points they wagered to their score (For example: If you wagered 20 points, then your score will be 40 points.) The team with the most points at the end of the round wins!

How Many Points will you Wager?

To the Death Round What type of poem was “Caged Birds” by Maya Angelou? Answer: Free verse

Final To the Death Round Name one epic poem written by Homer in Ancient Greece. Answer: The Iliad, or The Odyssey

Count Your Points! Who Won?