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Literary Terms Jeopardy

Test your knowledge of literary terms in this engaging Jeopardy-style game. Explore rhyme time, word plays, poetic types, and big words.

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Literary Terms Jeopardy

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  1. Literary Terms Jeopardy English 9

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  3. Literary Terms Jeopardy Rhyme Time Word Plays Think About It Poetic Types Big Words Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

  4. Literary Terms Jeopardy Word Plays Think About It Rhyme Time Poetic Types Big Words Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

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

  6. $100 Answer from Big Words What is onomatopoeia?

  7. $200 Question from Big Words The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.

  8. $200 Answer from Big Words What is alliteration?

  9. $300 Question from Big Words A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.

  10. $300 Answer from Big Words What is personification?

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

  12. $400 Answer from Big Words What is iambic pentameter?

  13. $500 Question from Big Words Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.

  14. $500 Answer from Big Words What is assonance?

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

  16. $100 Answer from Rhyme Time 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.)

  18. $200 Answer from Rhyme Time What is iambic?

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

  20. $300 Answer from Rhyme Time What is blank verse?

  21. $400 Question from Rhyme Time Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.

  22. $400 Answer from Rhyme Time What is a refrain?

  23. $500 Question from Rhyme Time Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

  24. $500 Answer from Rhyme Time What is a couplet?

  25. $100 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings.

  26. $100 Answer from Word Plays What is a synomym?

  27. $200 Question from Word Plays One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.

  28. $200 Answer from Word Plays What is an anyomym?

  29. $300 Question from Word Plays A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.

  30. $300 Answer from Word Plays What is a simile?

  31. $400 Question from Word Plays A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.

  32. $400 Answer from Word Plays What is a pun?

  33. $500 Question from Word Plays The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.

  34. $500 Answer from Word Plays What is figurative language?

  35. $100 Question from Think About It A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.

  36. $100 Answer from Think About It What is a stanza?

  37. $200 Question from Think About It The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

  38. $200 Answer from Think About It What is tone?

  39. $300 Question from Think About It A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth.

  40. $300 Answer from Think About It What is a paradox?

  41. $400 Question from Think About It 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)

  42. $400 Answer from Think About It What is an apostrophe?

  43. $500 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.

  44. $500 Answer from Think About It What is symbolism?

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

  46. $100 Answer from Poetic Types What is prose?

  47. $200 Question from Poetic Types A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.

  48. $200 Answer from Poetic Types What is haiku?

  49. $300 Question from Poetic Types A light or humorous verse form of five verses

  50. $300 Answer from Poetic Types What is a limerick?

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