Jeopardy Review #1 Poetry Test $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 DevicesForms Schools Poets Random
100A Question Definition: word choice
100A Answer Diction
200A Question An “almost” rhyme
200A Answer Slant Rhyme
300A Question Repetition of vowel sounds
300A Answer Assonance
400A Question The opposite of free verse
400A Answer Closed Form
500A Question Removal of a vowel or syllable to preserve meter
500A Answer Elision
100B Question A five-line, humorous poem
100B Answer Limerick
200B Question The type of stanza usually used in a ballad
200B Answer Quatrain
300B Question Type of meter used in a ballad
300B Answer Iambic
400B Question A mournful, lamenting poem
400B Answer Elegy
500B Question A poem in response to visual art
500B Answer Ekphrasis
100C Question This poetic movement relies on verbal delivery of the poems
100C Answer Slam Poetry
200C Question These poets rejected free verse in favor of traditional poetic forms.
200C Answer New Formalists
300C Question These poets often use an unusual metaphor and end with a paradox
300C Answer Metaphysical Poets
400C Question These poets were abolitionists
400C Answer Fireside Poets
500C Question These poets reveal intimate personal info in their poems
500C Answer Confessional Poets
100D Question What is the correct name of Robert Frost’s poem about the diverging paths in the woods?
100D Answer “The Road Not Taken”
200D Question Name an imagist poet.
200D Answer William Carlos Williams
300D Question Name two Langston Hughes poems
300D Answer “Dreams” “I, Too, am America” “America Never Was America to Me” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
400D Question This poet wrote “Mirror”
400D Answer Sylvia Plath
500D Question This poet rejected capital letters
500D Answer e.e cummings
100E Question T/F We underline or italicize the titles of poems.
100E Answer False. We put them in quotes.
200E Question T/F: The Beat Poets accepted poetic & cultural conventions
200E Answer False. They rejected conventions.
300E Question T/F Robert Frost rejected the new style of free verse
300E Answer True: “I would just as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”
400E Question T/F A Haiku has 17 syllables total.
400E Answer True, 5-7-5
500E Question T/F This jeopardy quiz is fun.
500E Answer TRUE!