Poetry Jeopardy

1. Poetry Jeopardy World Literature

2. Categories Types A Types B Devices A Devices B Devices C 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 600 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500

3. Poetry Types A 100 The art of expressing one's thoughts in verse

4. Poetry Types A 100 Poetry Return Home

5. Poetry Types A 200 An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all.

6. Poetry Types A 200 Haiku Return Home

7. Poetry Types A 300 A poem consisting of 14 lines with a particular rhyme scheme, for example, abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

8. Poetry Types A 300 Sonnet Return Home

9. Poetry Types A 400 Poetry written without a regular rhyme, rhythm, and form

10. Poetry Types A 400 Free Verse Return Home

11. Poetry Types A 500 The first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same words as in the title.

12. Poetry Types A 500 Acrostic Return Home

13. Poetry Types A 600 A brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines

14. Poetry Types A 600 Epitaph Return Home

15. Poetry Types B 100 A 5-line poem that is structured by the syllables in each line:5, 7, 5, 7, 7

16. Poetry Types B 100 Tanka Return Home

17. Poetry Types B 200 A Poem praising and glorifying a person, place, or thing.

18. Poetry Types B 200 Ode Return Home

19. Poetry Types B 300 A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain

20. Poetry Types B 300 Ballad Return Home

21. Poetry Types B 400 A five line poem whimsical poem. The rhyme scheme must be AABBA

22. Poetry Types B 400 Limerick Return Home

23. Poetry Types B 500 An irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme). In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.

24. Poetry Types B 500 Free Verse Return Home

25. Poetry Types B 600 A short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines

26. Poetry Types B 600 Cinquain Return Home

27. Poetic Devices A 100 Feeling that a poem creates in the reader

28. Poetic Devices A 100 Mood Return Home

29. Poetic Devices A 200 Words that end with the same sound

30. Poetic Devices A 200 Rhyme Return Home

31. Poetic Devices A 300 Pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

32. Poetic Devices A 300 Rhythm Return Home

33. Poetic Devices A 400 These are often organized into stanzas

34. Poetic Devices A 400 Lines Return Home

35. Poetic Devices A 500 Comparison between 2 things using the words "like" or "as"

36. Poetic Devices A 500 Simile Return Home

37. Poetic Devices A 600 Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words or sentences or a line in poetry

38. Poetic Devices A 600 Alliteration Return Home

39. Poetic Devices B 100 Something that stands for something more than just itself

40. Poetic Devices B 100 Symbol Return Home

41. Poetic Devices B 200 Attitude a writer takes toward the subject or audience of a poem

42. Poetic Devices B 200 Tone Return Home

43. Poetic Devices B 300 Use of words that sound like the noises they describe

44. Poetic Devices B 300 Onomatopoeia Return Home

45. Poetic Devices B 400 Type of figure of speech that give human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas

46. Poetic Devices B 400 Personification Return Home

47. Poetic Devices B 500 An everyday saying that doesn’t mean what the words say

48. Poetic Devices B 500 Idiom Return Home

49. Poetic Devices C 100 Languages that appeals to the 5 senses

50. Poetic Devices C 100 Imagery Return Home