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Poetry Jeopardy!
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Types of
Poems
Literary
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Literary
Elements 2
Examples
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Types of Poems
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What type of poem
tells a story?
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What is a narrative
poem.
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What type of poem is
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What is a catalog
poem.
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What type of poem is
a play?
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What is a dramatic
poem.
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. What type of poem
follows the following
requirements:
-3 lines
-The syllables follow
the 5-7-5 syllable
format
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What is a haiku
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What type of poem is
short and expresses
strong emotion?
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What is a lyric poem.
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Literary Elements for 100
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What is the term for
repetition of
beginning consonant
sounds?
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What is alliteration.
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What is a comparison
of unlike things NOT
using like or as?
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What is metaphor.
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What is the term for
words that appeal to
one of the five
senses?
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What is imagery.
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What is
onomatopoeia.
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What is the name of
words that sound like
they look, such as
Bang, Kapow, and
Boom?
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What is the emotion
that the writer wants
you to feel called?
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What is tone.
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What type of poem
uses the following
requirements:
-14 lines
-1 stanza
-Has a regular rhyme
pattern
-Uses iambic
pentameter
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What is sonnet.
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What is another way
of saying “the
meaning of the poem/
what it is all about”?
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What is theme.
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What is it called when
words are “supposed”
to rhyme based on
the spelling and
different possible
pronunciations?
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What is slant or
approximate rhyme.
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What is the term used
when nonhuman
objects are given
human
characteristics?
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What is
personification.
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What is the term used
for “word choice”?
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What is diction.
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What would be
an example of
alliteration in the
following:
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What are blow/bleak
OR are/all.
Through broken walls and gray
The winds blow bleak and shrill;
They are all gone away.
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What is the
rhyme scheme
of this poem:
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What is ABA
Through broken walls and gray
The winds blow bleak and shrill;
They are all gone away.
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What is the simile
in this poem “Lost”
and what is being
compared?
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist
creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.
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1. What is “the
whistle of a boat/calls
and cries
unendingly,/like some
lost child”.
2. What is being
compared are the
whistle and a lost
child.
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What is the tone of
“Lost”?
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What is scared or
afraid.
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.
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What images are
being presented and
what senses are
being appealed to?
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.
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What is
Sight: fog trails and
mist creeps
Sound: whistle of the
boat
Smell: fog and mist
Touch: fog, mist,
tears
Taste: tears
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What is the best
baseball team?
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What are the Chicago
Cubs
DAILY DOUBLE
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What happened to
Geog and Ulrich at
the end of “The
Interlopers”?
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What are wolves.
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Who was the
goddess of wisdom
and Ithaca’s patron?
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Who is Athena.
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What does THEME
stand for?
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What is
T- topic sentence
H- have an example
E- elaborate
M- more elaboration
or make another
example
E- explain importance
and summerize
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When is your poetry
chapbook due?
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What is Monday.
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Final Challenge!
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Answer
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Question?
Write Your
Final Challenge
Wager
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