1. Jeopardy Poetry Terms Q 1 Q 6 Q 11 Q 16 Q 21 Q 2 Q 7 Q 12 Q 17 Q 22
Final Jeopardy

2. Question 1
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

3. Answer 1
What is – alliteration?

4. Question 2
Language enriched by word images and figures of speech.

5. Answer 2
What is – figurative language ?

6. Question 3
A figure of speech which uses a deliberate exaggeration.

7. Answer 3
What is – hyperbole ?

8. Question 4
Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.

9. Answer 4
What is – rhyme ?

10. Question 5
Wrote “Straw into Gold”

11. Answer 5
Sandra Cisneros

12. Question 6
Wrote ”Death of a Hired Man”

13. Answer 6
Robert Frost

14. Question 7
Words whose sound imitates their suggested meaning.

15. Answer 7
What is – onomatopoeia ?

16. Question 8
Wrote “Because I could not stop for Death”

17. Answer 8
Emily Dickinson

18. Question 9
The close repetition of middle vowel sounds.

19. Answer 9
What is – assonance ?

20. Question 10
A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or ideas.

21. Answer 10
What is – personification ?

22. Question 11
A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

23. Answer 11
What is – simile ?

24. Question 12
A rhyme between words in the same line .

25. Answer 12
What is – internal rhyme ?

26. Question 13
The reflection of an author’s attitude toward his or her subject.

27. Answer 13
What is – tone?

28. Question 14
Wrote “Harlem”

29. Answer 14
Langston Hughes

30. Question 15
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only .

31. Answer 15
What is – approximate or slant rhyme ?

32. Question 16
Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for a reader.

33. Answer 16
What is – imagery ?

34. Question 17
The repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds.

35. Answer 17
What is – consonance ?

36. Question 18
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things.

37. Answer 18
What is – a metaphor ?

38. Question 19
The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza .

39. Answer 19
What is – rhyme scheme ?

40. Question 20
A statement that contradicts itself yet is true.

41. Answer 20
What is – paradox ?

42. Question 21
One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.

43. Answer 21
What is – a stanza ?

44. Question 22
A reference to a famous work of art or literature

45. Answer 22
What is – allusion ?

46. Question 23
Two lines of verse with similar end-rhymes.

47. Answer 23
What is – a couplet ?

48. Question 24
Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern. .

49. Answer 24
What is – free verse ?

50. A measurable, patterned unit of poetic rhythm.

51. What is – a foot ?

52. Wrote “Rules of the Game”

53. Amy Tan

54. Wrote “A Mystery of Heroism”

55. Stephen Crane

56. Wrote his life story in a book that also shows the evils of slavery

57. Frederick Douglass

58. Speaking to an inanimate object, an idea, or absent person

59. apostrophe

60. Wrote “I Hear America Singing”

61. Walt Whitman

62. use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning e

63. parallelism

64. Literature has four main genres. What are they?

65. Poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction

66. Songs or poems primarily meant to convey popular messages, stories, or historical events

67. ballads

68. factual story about someone's life It is a part of the non-fiction literary genre and is usually told in the first person.

69. memoir

70. an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.

71. foreshadow

72. Wrote Song of Myself

73. Walt Whitman

74. Who wrote “A Rose for Emily”?

75. Wiilliam Faulkner