Jeopardy Figures of Speech: Definitions Literary Terms: Definitions Poetic Devices: Definitions Poetic Forms Identifying Poetic Devices Identifying Literary Devices 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500
A comparison between two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS. (Provide Example) A 100
What is a simile? Ex: My love is as boundless as the sea; Her eyes sparkled like diamonds A 100
A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using words such as like or as. (Provide Example) A 200
*A metaphor says that one thing IS another thing. What is a metaphor? *A metaphor says that one thing IS another thing. Ex. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. A 200
The giving of human qualities to an inanimate object, animal, or idea. (Provide Example) A 300
What is personification? Ex. The house’s walls breathed with every gust of wind. A 300
An indirect reference to a famous person, place, historical event, or literary work. (Provide Example) A 400
Ex. He is our local Paul Revere. What is an allusion? Ex. He is our local Paul Revere. A 400
A statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought and hold significance. (Provide Example) A 500
Ex. I must be cruel to be kind. What is paradox? Ex. I must be cruel to be kind. I can resist anything but temptation. A 500
An author’s attitude about the subject as demonstrated through his word choice (diction)
What is tone? B 100
The attitude that the reader develops from the passage as influenced by the author’s diction.
What is mood? B 200
Purposeful word choice Purposeful word choice. The specific words are chosen for either a special emphasis or connotation. B 300
What is diction? Ex. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf *Romped is an example of diction because it has a positive and playful connotation. Romped means to play around in a lively manner. B 300
The dictionary definition of a word. (Provide Example) B 400
Ex. Cheater: a person or thing who cheats. What is denotation? Ex. Cheater: a person or thing who cheats. B 400
The feelings/emotions associated with a word. (Provide Example) B 500
Ex. Cheater: negative connotation What is connotation? Ex. Cheater: negative connotation B 500
A pattern of end rhymes in a poem A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each rhyme is assigned a letter of the alphabet starting with a. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter. C 100
What is the rhyme scheme? Ex. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, a And sorry I could not travel both b And be one traveler, long I stood a And looked down one as far as I could a To where it bent in the undergrowth b C 100
Words that sound like their meaning. (Provide Example) C 200
What is the onomatopoeia? Ex. swoosh, zip, click, zoom, pop, crackle C 200
Approximate rhyme; occurs when poets attempt to rhyme words that simply do not rhyme exactly.
Ex. What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? What is the slant rhyme? Ex. What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? C 300
DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager C 400
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. (Provide Example) C 400
Ex. Which circle slowly with a silken swish What is alliteration? Ex. Which circle slowly with a silken swish C 400
The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines in a sequence. (Provide Example) C 500
What is anaphora? Ex. It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, It was the age of wisdom, It was the age of foolishness, C 500
A form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. D 100
What is free verse? D 100
A poem in which the poet uses a visible shape to create a picture related to the poem’s subject.
What is concrete poem? D 200
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet? D 300
A line of poetry that consists of five pairs of alternated stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter? Ex. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? D 400
The structure of a Shakespearean sonnet. D 500
What is three quatrains and a rhyming couplet? What is the Volta?
Identify an example of repetition.
What is “He will keep telling jokes”?
Identify the line that starts the Volta.
What is “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare”?
Also, find an example of alliteration. Explain the importance of the line “American but hyphenated” in connection to how the speaker feels. Also, find an example of alliteration. E 300
What is “definitely different”? What is the speaker will always be seen as Mexican-American, not just solely American or solely Mexican? What is “definitely different”? E 300
Identify three examples of anaphora.
What is: able to slip from “How’s life?” to “Me’stan volviendo loca,” able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, viewed by Mexicans as alien, by smiling by masking the discomfort E 400
Identify the rhyme scheme. Hint: There is slant rhyme in this poem.
What is ABBAABBACDCDCD? Slant Rhyme: “Grace” and “day’s” E 500
Find the simile. F 100
What is “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay”? F 100
Find examples of diction that have a negative connotation.
What is “reeks” and “treads”? F 200
Find an example of personification.
What is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”?
Provide a tone word for this poem and an explanation why.
What is the speaker is resentful, angry, and annoyed because she is constantly judged by both the American and Mexican cultures? F 400
Find 3 examples of paradox.
What is “dark is right,” “sad height,” “Curse, bless,” and “blinding sight”? F 500
The Final Jeopardy Category is: Poetry Analysis Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin
1. Identify the poetic form? 2. Find an example of: Personification Onomatopoeia Alliteration Click on screen to continue
Onomatopoeia: “whirring” Alliteration: “that destroyer of dozens” What is free verse? Personification: “Any meal is dangerous / but they fear breakfast most.” Onomatopoeia: “whirring” Alliteration: “that destroyer of dozens” Click on screen to continue
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