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Exploring Literary Devices: Definitions and Examples

Dive into the world of literary terms, figures of speech, poetic forms, and identifying devices. Enhance your understanding with examples and definitions. From similes to sonnets, unravel the beauty of language and craft. Join us in this journey of literary exploration and discovery!

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Exploring Literary Devices: Definitions and Examples

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  1. THIS IS Jeopardy

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  3. Jeopardy Literary Terms: Definitions Figures of Speech: Definitions Poetic Forms Identifying Literary Devices Identifying Poetic Devices Poetic Devices: Definitions 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

  4. A comparison between two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS. (Provide Example) A 100

  5. What is a simile? Ex:My love is as boundless as the sea; Her eyes sparkled like diamonds A 100

  6. A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using words such as like or as. (Provide Example) A 200

  7. What is a metaphor? *A metaphor says that one thing IS another thing. Ex. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. A 200

  8. The giving of human qualities to an inanimate object, animal, or idea. (Provide Example) A 300

  9. What is personification? Ex. The house’s walls breathed with every gust of wind. A 300

  10. An indirect reference to a famous person, place, historical event, or literary work. (Provide Example) A 400

  11. What is an allusion? Ex. He is our local Paul Revere. A 400

  12. A statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought and hold significance. (Provide Example) A 500

  13. What is paradox? Ex.I must be cruel to be kind. I can resist anything but temptation. A 500

  14. An author’sattitude about the subject as demonstrated through his word choice (diction) B 100

  15. What is tone? B 100

  16. The attitude that the reader develops from the passage as influenced by the author’s diction. B 200

  17. What is mood? B 200

  18. Purposeful word choice. The specific words are chosen for either a special emphasis or connotation. B 300

  19. What is diction? Ex.We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf *Romped is an example of diction because it has a positive and playful connotation. Romped means to play around in a lively manner. B 300

  20. The dictionary definition of a word. (Provide Example) B 400

  21. What is denotation? Ex.Cheater: a person or thing who cheats. B 400

  22. The feelings/emotions associated with a word. (Provide Example) B 500

  23. What is connotation? Ex.Cheater: negative connotation B 500

  24. A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each rhyme is assigned a letter of the alphabet starting with a. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter. C 100

  25. What is the rhyme scheme? Ex. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, a And sorry I could not travel bothb And be one traveler, long I stooda And looked down one as far as I coulda To where it bent in the undergrowthb C 100

  26. Words that sound like their meaning. (Provide Example) C 200

  27. What is the onomatopoeia? Ex. swoosh, zip, click, zoom, pop, crackle C 200

  28. Approximate rhyme; occurs when poets attempt to rhyme words that simply do not rhyme exactly. C 300

  29. What is the slant rhyme? Ex. What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? C 300

  30. DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager C 400

  31. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. (Provide Example) C 400

  32. What is alliteration? Ex. Which circle slowly with a silken swish C 400

  33. The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines in a sequence. (Provide Example) C 500

  34. What is anaphora? Ex. It was the best of times,It was the worst of times,It was the age of wisdom,It was the age of foolishness, C 500

  35. A form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. D 100

  36. What is free verse? D 100

  37. A poem in which the poet uses a visible shape to create a picture related to the poem’s subject. D 200

  38. What is concrete poem? D 200

  39. A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. D 300

  40. What is a Shakespearean Sonnet? D 300

  41. A line of poetry that consists of five pairs of alternated stressed and unstressed syllables. D 400

  42. What is iambic pentameter? Ex. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? D 400

  43. The structure of a Shakespearean sonnet. D 500

  44. What is three quatrains and a rhyming couplet? What is the Volta? D 500

  45. Identify an example of repetition. E 100

  46. What is “He will keep telling jokes”? E 100

  47. Identify the line that starts the Volta. E 200

  48. What is “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare”? E 200

  49. Explain the importance of the line “American but hyphenated” in connection to how the speaker feels. Also, find an example of alliteration. E 300

  50. What is the speaker will always be seen as Mexican-American, not just solely American or solely Mexican? What is “definitely different”? E 300

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