1. Jeopardy
Figures of Speech: Definitions
Literary Terms:
Definitions
Poetic Devices: Definitions
Poetic Forms
Identifying Poetic Devices
Identifying Literary Devices
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2. A comparison between two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS.
(Provide Example)
A 100

3. What is a simile?
Ex: My love is as boundless as the sea; Her eyes sparkled like diamonds
A 100

4. A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using words such as like or as.
(Provide Example)
A 200

5. *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

6. The giving of human qualities to an inanimate object, animal, or idea.
(Provide Example)
A 300

7. What is personification?
Ex. The house’s walls breathed with every gust of wind.
A 300

8. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, historical event, or literary work.
(Provide Example)
A 400

9. Ex. He is our local Paul Revere.
What is an allusion?
Ex. He is our local Paul Revere.
A 400

10. A statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought and hold significance.
(Provide Example)
A 500

11. 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

12. An author’s attitude about the subject as demonstrated through his word choice (diction)

13. What is tone?
B 100

14. The attitude that the reader develops from the passage as influenced by the author’s diction.

15. What is mood?
B 200

16. Purposeful word choice
Purposeful word choice. The specific words are chosen for either a special emphasis or connotation.
B 300

17. 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

18. The dictionary definition of a word.
(Provide Example)
B 400

19. Ex. Cheater: a person or thing who cheats.
What is denotation?
Ex. Cheater: a person or thing who cheats.
B 400

20. The feelings/emotions associated with a word.
(Provide Example)
B 500

21. Ex. Cheater: negative connotation
What is connotation?
Ex. Cheater: negative connotation
B 500

22. 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

23. 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

24. Words that sound like their meaning.
(Provide Example)
C 200

25. What is the onomatopoeia?
Ex. swoosh, zip, click, zoom, pop, crackle
C 200

26. Approximate rhyme; occurs when poets attempt to rhyme words that simply do not rhyme exactly.

27. 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

28. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
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C 400

29. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
(Provide Example)
C 400

30. Ex. Which circle slowly with a silken swish
What is alliteration?
Ex. Which circle slowly with a silken swish
C 400

31. The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines in a sequence.
(Provide Example)
C 500

32. 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

33. A form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
D 100

34. What is free verse?
D 100

35. A poem in which the poet uses a visible shape to create a picture related to the poem’s subject.

36. What is concrete poem?
D 200

37. A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

38. What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
D 300

39. A line of poetry that consists of five pairs of alternated stressed and unstressed syllables.

40. What is iambic pentameter?
Ex. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
D 400

41. The structure of a Shakespearean sonnet.
D 500

42. What is three quatrains and a rhyming couplet? What is the Volta?

43. Identify an example of repetition.

44. What is “He will keep telling jokes”?

45. Identify the line that starts the Volta.

46. What is “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare”?

47. 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

48. 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

49. Identify three examples of anaphora.

50. 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

51. Identify the rhyme scheme. Hint: There is slant rhyme in this poem.

52. What is ABBAABBACDCDCD?
Slant Rhyme: “Grace” and “day’s”
E 500

53. Find the simile.
F 100

54. What is “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay”?
F 100

55. Find examples of diction that have a negative connotation.

56. What is “reeks” and “treads”?
F 200

57. Find an example of personification.

58. What is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”?

59. Provide a tone word for this poem and an explanation why.

60. What is the speaker is resentful, angry, and annoyed because she is constantly judged by both the American and Mexican cultures?
F 400

61. Find 3 examples of paradox.

62. What is “dark is right,” “sad height,” “Curse, bless,” and “blinding sight”?
F 500

63. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Poetry Analysis
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64. 1. Identify the poetic form?
2. Find an example of:
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
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65. 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”
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