Lit. DevicesHamletOedipus The Great Gatsby/Glass Menagerie Potpourri Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Q $100 Q $300 Q $200 Q $400 Q $500 Poetry

$100 Literary Devices The difference between a simile and metaphor is the use of these words.

$100 Literary Devices What are “like” and “as”?

$200 Literary Devices These include historical, pop- cultural, biblical, literary, and mythological.

$200 Literary Devices What are allusions?

$300 Literary Devices These are the types of imagery.

$300 Literary Devices What are gustatory, tactile, visual, auditory, and olfactory?

$400 Literary Devices These are the devices of humour which create satire.

$400 Literary Devices What are irony, wit, incongruity, puns, exaggeration, and understatement.

$500 Literary Devices This is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase substitutes another that is closely related, like the crown replacing the king.

$500 Literary Devices What is metonymy.

$100 Hamlet This character is the first to be killed by Hamlet.

$100 Hamlet Who is Polonius?

$200 Hamlet These are the first two weapons mentioned in the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy.

$200 Hamlet What are slings and arrows?

$300 Hamlet The term “fishmonger” is slang for this and describes him.

$300 Hamlet What are a pimp and Polonius?

$400 Hamlet “That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once,” is this literary device and describes this person.

$400 Hamlet What is visual imagery and Yorick?

$500 Hamlet Comic relief, especially in a tragedy, is used for these three reasons.

$500 Hamlet What are to relieve dramatic tension, utilize all actors, and appeal to a wider audience?

$100 Oedipus Oedipus’ hubris is not listening to this prophet.

$100 Oedipus Who is Teiresias?

$200 Oedipus Oedipus was granted the privilege of marrying Jocasta because he was able to do this.

$200 Oedipus What is answer the riddle of the Sphinx?

$300 Oedipus Oedipus refers to the Sphinx as a “dog- faced witch,” which is an example of this term, similar to a nickname.

$300 Oedipus What is an epithet?

$400 Oedipus Teiresias tells Oedipus, "I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind," which is this.

$400 Oedipus What is verbal irony?

$500 Oedipus These are the three major characteristics of a tragic hero.

$500 Oedipus What are hubris, hamartia, and downfall?

$100 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie The Great Gatsby sharply contrasts The Glass Menagerie, as the settings take place during these eras.

$100 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie What are the roaring twenties and the dirty thirties?

$200 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie As this, we cannot really trust Tom due to potential bias.

$200 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie What is the narrator?

$300 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie This is a symbol of Laura’s uniqueness.

$300 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie What is an unicorn?

$400 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie Gatsby’s riches were a result of bootlegging, during a time of this.

$400 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie What is prohibition?

$500 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie These are symbols of God and social decay in American culture in The Great Gatsby.

$500 The Great Gatsby/The Glass Menagerie What are the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg and the Valley of Ashes?

$100 Potpourri This is a term for exaggeration in literature.

$100 Potpourri What is hyperbole?

$200 Potpourri Brave New World and 1984 are examples of this type of a society.

$200 Potpourri What is a dystopia?

$300 Potpourri Lord of the Flies is one of these, which means it has both literal and symbolic meanings.

$300 Potpourri What is an allegory?

$400 Potpourri These two terms are a reoccurring idea in a work and the central meaning.

$400 Potpourri What are motif and theme?

$500 Potpourri The sudden realization of his error and the emotional release that he experiences are these terms that contribute to a tragic hero’s experience.

$500 Potpourri What are illumination and catharsis?

$100 Poetry These are the two main types of sonnets.

$100 Poetry What are Petrarchan, or Italian, and Shakespearean?

$200 Poetry In this Victorian poem, a man’s wife was killed because the narrator claims that she flirted with everyone and did not appreciate his "gift of a nine- hundred-years- old name."

$200 Poetry What is “My Last Duchess”?

$300 Poetry In these types of poems, like those written by Christopher Marlowe, common characteristic include a theme about love and the inclusion of shepherds.

$300 Poetry What are pastoral poems?

$400 Poetry When asked about writing this type of poetry with no fixed rhyme scheme, Frost said, "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

$400 Poetry What is free verse poetry?

$500 Poetry These two types of poems are written to tell a story and to express strong emotions.

$500 Poetry What are ballads and lyrics?

“S” Literary Terms

Final Jeopardy These two literary terms are the repetition of the S sound and when a part is representative of the whole, like in the phrase, “All hands on deck.”

Final Jeopardy Answer What are sibilance and synechdoche?