Panther Land: Poetry Review Game

1. Panther Land: Poetry Review Game On the note card that has been provided for you, write your team members’ name on each card in the upper right-hand corner. Circle the team member who will move to another team as a “cheater meter.” Each team of five gets a game board and a die. One member Each team will roll the die before each turn. The class as a whole will be asked questions from the poetry packet. Your team must get the answer correct in order to move. You will have a limited time to answer each question provided . You will quietly discuss your answers as a team and write your final answer down on the note card that has been provided for you. I will call “time’s up” and you will submit your card to the “cheater meter” assigned to your group for review. If your answer is correct and you rolled a 1 or 4, move forward one. If your answer is correct and you rolled a 2 or 5, move forward two. If your answer is correct and you rolled a 3 or 6, move forward three.

2. The Cheater Meter One member of each team will become the “cheater meter” of another team. His job will be to read the other team’s answers and verify that they are correct. He will also make sure that the team moves according to its roll. He will record the team’s name and members, as well as the answers that they received correct and incorrect. He will submit this sheet to the basket at the end of the period for a participation grade for himself and the team he monitors. He will have a copy of these rules for review and reminders.

3. Winning the Game • Winning team will receive: • Five points towards next quiz OR • Five points towards last quiz OR • A piece of candy OR • A free homework pass (yes, homework is coming…) • Tomorrow, one representative from the winning team will have to undergo torture to decide (insert evil laugh here!). Just kidding…you’ll see…..

4. Question 1 What is the equivalent of a paragraph in your poem?

5. Question 2 “Horse and hero” or “do and die” are examples of -.

6. Question 3 “The sun kissed my cheek” is an example of – because the sun is referred to as “he” and described as passing a carriage.

7. Question 4 What do you call the speaker of a poem?

8. Question 5 Each unit of a rhythmic pattern is called a -.

9. Question 6 Three feet of UU/ is considered - meter

10. Question 7 What kind of rhyme has two or more syllables? Example: sister/mister

11. Question 8 What kind of poem tells a story?

12. Question 9 What kind of poem is incredibly long (100 pages, etc.) and involves a hero?

13. Question 10 - is the term applied to determining a poem’s rhythmic pattern with stressed and unstressed patterns.

14. Question 11 “Crash bang boom” are examples of -

15. Question 12 What kind of line has NO punctuation at the end?

16. Question 13 What kind of line has a comma, period, dash, or other punctuation at the end?

17. Question 14 What is the name of a pause in the MIDDLE of a line?

18. Question 15 What is the term for a sudden change in a poem’s thought or direction or emotion? Hint: You won’t have to look too long to find it.

19. Question 16 “Casey at the Bat” uses – because the persona builds Casey up by showing his arrogance, the crowd’s belief in him, and the loaded bases when he comes up to bat. However, in the last stanza, we learn thatC Casey, contrary to our expectations, strikes out.

20. Question 17 The persona can be an objective observer, a lover morning his dead girlfriend, a clown, even an animal, but RARELY, IF EVER, should we assume that the persona is the -.

21. Question 18 How many feet does hexameter have?

22. Question 19 How does end rhyme differ from internal rhyme?

23. Question 20 In poetry, - can be used to create a haunting effect, emphasize a point, show the persona’s obsession with or confusion over an idea, or reflect the fact that an event/action occurs over and over again.