1. Literary Terms Jeopardy
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5. $100 Question from Big Words
The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.

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What is alliteration?

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A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.

10. What is personification?
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What is
personification?

11. $400 Question from Big Words
A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.

12. What is iambic pentameter?
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What is iambic
pentameter?

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.

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What is assonance?

15. $100 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

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What is free verse?

17. $200 Question from Rhyme Time
A metrical foot or unit of measure that consist on an unstressed syllable followed by a a stressed syllable.)

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What is iambic?

19. $300 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry written in unrhymed
iambic pentameter.

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What is blank verse?

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Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.

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What is a refrain?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

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What is a couplet?

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One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.

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What is a synomym?

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One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.

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What is an anyomym?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.

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What is a simile?

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A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.

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What is a pun?

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The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.

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What is figurative language?

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A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.

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What is a stanza?

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The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

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What is tone?

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A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth.

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What is a paradox?

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A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a punctuation mark is used to indicate the omission of letter(s)

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What is an apostrophe?

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The use of a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.

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What is symbolism?

45. $100 Question from Poetic Types
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.

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What is prose?

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A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.

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What is haiku?

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A light or humorous verse form of five verses

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What is a limerick?

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A song that tells a story.

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What is a ballad?

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Fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.

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What is a sonnet?

55. Final Jeopardy
The apparent paradox achieved by the use of words which seem to contradict one another.

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