Title: Literary Terms Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
4100 Question from Big Words
The use of words to imitate natural sounds such
as buzz or pop.
5100 Answer from Big Words
What is onomatopoeia?
6200 Question from Big Words
The repetition of the same sound beginning
several words in sequence.
7200 Answer from Big Words
What is alliteration?
8300 Question from Big Words
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is
talked about as if it were human.
9300 Answer from Big Words
What is personification?
10400 Question from Big Words
A gross exaggeration.
11400 Answer from Big Words
What is hyperbole?
12500 Question from Big Words
Comparisons that use like/as/than/ resembles AND
comparisons that do not use like/as/than/
resembles (typically use is/are/was/ were).
13500 Answer from Big Words
What are similes and metaphors?
14100 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry that does not have a regular rhyme scheme,
but has rhythm.
15100 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is free verse?
16200 Question from Rhyme Time
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form
a single unit (poetry paragraphs).
17200 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is stanza?
18300 Question from Rhyme Time
Fourteen line poem that has a rhyme scheme.
19300 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is sonnet?
20400 Question from Rhyme Time
Songlike quality that has rhyming lines and shows
emotion about a subject.
21400 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is lyric poem?
22500 Question from Rhyme Time
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
23500 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is a couplet?
24100 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words that have the same or
nearly identical meanings.
25100 Answer from Word Plays
What is a synonym?
26200 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words that have opposite
meanings.
27200 Answer from Word Plays
What is an antonym?
28300 Question from Word Plays
Words that have an emotional meaning attached
versus words that have a dictionary definition.
29300 Answer from Word Plays
What is connotation versus denotation?
30400 Question from Word Plays
An expression that means something other than its
literal meaning.
31400 Answer from Word Plays
What is idiom?
32500 Question from Word Plays
The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in
such a way as to evoke mental images and sense
impressions.
33500 Answer from Word Plays
What is figurative language?
34100 Question from Think About It
Used to further explain and is typically set off
by punctuation.
35100 Answer from Think About It
What is appositive?
36200 Question from Think About It
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience,
a subject, or a character.
37200 Answer from Think About It
What is tone?
38300 Question from Think About It
The feeling the reader gets from a literary work.
39300 Answer from Think About It
What is mood?
40400 Question from Think About It
Writing that uses same word endings, verb tense,
sentence structure/length, and repetition.
41400 Answer from Think About It
What is parallelism?
42500 Question from Think About It
The use of a person, place, thing, or event that
stands for itself and for something beyond itself
as well.
43500 Answer from Think About It
What is symbolism?
44100 Question from Poetic Types
A sad poem that deals with death.
45100 Answer from Poetic Types
What is elegy?
46200 Question from Poetic Types
A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three
unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.
47200 Answer from Poetic Types
What is haiku?
48300 Question from Poetic Types
A poem that has no rhythm or rhyme
49300 Answer from Poetic Types
What is blank verse?
50400 Question from Poetic Types
A song that tells a story.
51400 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a ballad?
52500 Question from Poetic Types
A long poem that tells a story with a hero that
accomplishes great deeds, and a villain that that
typically dies.
53500 Answer from Poetic Types
What is epic poetry?
54Final Jeopardy
A poem that takes on a shape of what it is
describing.
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What is a concrete poem?