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Poetry Unit: Jeopardy Review!

Poetry Unit: Jeopardy Review!. Feraco English 9 10 March 2009. Ground rules. 1 piece of paper per student Each student answers each question in pen – no scratch-outs allowed! Each student has roughly 40 seconds to respond to each question Scoring rules: Answers earn credit

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Poetry Unit: Jeopardy Review!

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  1. Poetry Unit: Jeopardy Review! Feraco English 9 10 March 2009

  2. Ground rules • 1 piece of paper per student • Each student answers each question in pen – no scratch-outs allowed! • Each student has roughly 40 seconds to respond to each question • Scoring rules: • Answers earn credit • Incorrect answers lose credit • Each student answers each question independently! • Each student earns points for the team • Top team gets extra credit on exam!

  3. Categories + Point Values • Poetry Handout Terms I • Poetry Handout Terms II • Holt Textbook Terms I • Holt Textbook Terms II • Poems I • Poems II • Grab Bag! • The questions are worth 100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 points

  4. Poetry Handout Terms I $100 • What is imagery?

  5. Poetry Handout Terms I $100 Answer • What is language that appeals to our senses?

  6. Poetry Handout Terms II $100 • What is diction?

  7. Poetry Handout Terms II $100 Answer • What is a writer’s choice of words and the arrangement of those words in phrases, sentences, or the lines of a poem?

  8. Holt Textbook Terms I $100 • What is the term for a fourteen-line poem with a regular rhyme patten, usually written in iambic pentamenter?

  9. Holt Textbook Terms I $100 Answer • What is a sonnet?

  10. Holt Textbook Terms II $100 • What is a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject or toward an audience?

  11. Holt Textbook Terms II $100 Answer • What is tone?

  12. Poems I $100 • In “Forgive My Guilt,” what has the boy done that inspired the poem’s title?

  13. Poems I $100 Answer • He shot needlessly at two birds, wounding instead of killing them, and listened to their cries as they fled brokenly out to sea.

  14. Poems II $100 • Describe the setting in James’ Wright’s “A Blessing.”

  15. Poems II $100 Answer • Wright has stepped out of his car, which he’s driven away from the highway to Rochester and out to a field where two horses graze. Twilight is falling, and a light breeze is blowing.

  16. Grab Bag $100 • What is a situation where the reader knows something a character does not?

  17. Grab Bag $100 Answer • What is dramatic irony?

  18. Poetry Handout Terms I $200 • What is free verse poetry?

  19. Poetry Handout Terms I $200 Answer • What is poetry that does not follow a regular pattern of rhyme and meter?

  20. Poetry Handout Terms II $200 • What is repetition?

  21. Poetry Handout Terms II $200 Answer • What is a device in which sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas are repeated for emphasis?

  22. Holt Textbook Terms I $200 • What is a seventeen-syllable, three-line poem that presents images from nature or everyday life and reveals a greater truth or observation?

  23. Holt Textbook Terms I $200 Answer • What is a haiku?

  24. Holt Textbook Terms II $200 • What is the continuation of a sentence or clause over one or more line breaks?

  25. Holt Textbook Terms II $200 Answer • What is enjambment?

  26. Poems I $200 • Which road does the narrator choose in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”?

  27. Poems I $200 Answer • He takes “the one less traveled by.”

  28. Poems II $200 • Why was the little girl in the church in “Ballad of Birmingham”?

  29. Poems II $200 Answer • Because her mother feared she would be exposing herself to danger if she marched in the streets for civil rights, and urged her to make a difference by singing at church (where it was safe) instead.

  30. Grab Bag $200 • What does Li-Young Lee do for his wife in “The Gift”?

  31. Grab Bag $200 Answer • He pulls a splinter from her hand, just as his father did for him during childhood.

  32. Poetry Handout Terms I $300 • What is the definition of onomatopoeia?

  33. Poetry Handout Terms I $300 Answer • What are words that sound like what they mean?

  34. Poetry Handout Terms II $300 • What is connotation?

  35. Poetry Handout Terms II $300 Answer • What are the images or associations a word suggests?

  36. Holt Textbook Terms I $300 • What is a short poem that expresses a speaker's thoughts or feelings?

  37. Holt Textbook Terms I $300 Answer • What is a lyric poem?

  38. Holt Textbook Terms II $300 • What is a symbolic comparison that is carried out over an entire piece?

  39. Holt Textbook Terms II $300 Answer • What is an extended metaphor?

  40. Poems I $300 • Nikki Giovanni claims that the world is not a pleasant place to be without _________________.

  41. Poems I $300 Answer • Someone to hold and be held by.

  42. Poems II $300 • What are “fire” and “ice” in Robert Frost’s poem of the same name?

  43. Poems II $300 Answer • Fire represents desire, while ice represents hatred.

  44. Grab Bag $300 • What is a poem that presents a series of different images for a common purpose, usually in list form?

  45. Grab Bag $300 Answer • What is a catalog poem?

  46. Poetry Handout Terms I $400 • What is approximate rhyme?

  47. Poetry Handout Terms I $400 Answer • What is the poetic usage of words whose sounds do not quite rhyme?

  48. Poetry Handout Terms II $400 • What is meter?

  49. Poetry Handout Terms II $400 Answer • What is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

  50. Holt Textbook Terms I $400 • What is a song or poem that tells a story, often about love or death, and can be sad or humorous?

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