Jeopardy
Poetry Terms
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Q6
Q 11
Q 16
Q 21
Q2
Q7
Q 12
Q 17
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Q3
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Q 13
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Final Jeopardy
Question 1
The repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning of words.
Answer 1
What is – alliteration?
Question 2
Language enriched by word images
and figures of speech.
Answer 2
What is – figurative language ?
Question 3
A figure of speech which uses a
deliberate exaggeration.
Answer 3
What is – hyperbole ?
Question 4
Correspondence of terminal sounds
of words or of lines of verse.
Answer 4
What is – rhyme ?
Question 5
A concrete thing used to suggest
something larger and more abstract.
Answer 5
What is – a symbol ?
Question 6
Details perceived by sight, hearing,
smell, or any mode by which one
perceives stimuli outside or within
the body.
Answer 6
What is – sensory details ?
Question 7
Words whose sound imitates their
suggested meaning.
Answer 7
What is – onomatopoeia ?
Question 8
A symbolic interpretation of written
work.
Answer 8
What is – figurative meaning ?
Question 9
The close repetition of middle vowel
sounds.
Answer 9
What is – assonance ?
Question 10
A figure of speech in which human
qualities are attributed to animals,
inanimate objects, or ideas.
Answer 10
What is – personification ?
Question 11
A figure of speech in which a
comparison is made between two
unlike thins using the words “like”
or “as.”
Answer 11
What is – concrete image ?
Question 12
A rhyme between words in the
same line .
Answer 12
What is – internal rhyme ?
Question 13
The reflection of an author’s
attitude toward his or her subject.
Answer 13
What is – tone?
Question 14
The analysis of verse into metrical
patterns .
Answer 14
What is – scansion ?
Question 15
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often
using assonance or consonance only .
Answer 15
What is – approximate rhyme ?
Question 16
Words and phrases that create vivid
sensory experiences for a reader.
Answer 16
What is – imagery ?
Question 17
The repetition of identical consonant
sounds before and after differing
vowel sounds.
Answer 17
What is – consonance ?
Question 18
A figure of speech in which an implied
comparison is made between two
unlike things.
Answer 18
What is – a metaphor ?
Question 19
The arrangement of rhymes in a
poem or stanza .
Answer 19
What is – rhyme scheme ?
Question 20
The feeling or atmosphere that a
writer creates for a reader; reflection
of an author’s attitude toward a
subject or theme.
Answer 20
What is – mood ?
Question 21
One of the divisions of a poem,
composed of two or more lines
usually characterized by a common
pattern of meter, rhyme, and number
of lines.
Answer 21
What is – a stanza ?
Question 22
A particular arrangement of words in
poetry, such as iambic pentameter,
determined by the kind and number
of metrical units in a line.
Answer 22
What is – meter ?
Question 23
Two lines of verse with similar
end-rhymes.
Answer 23
What is – a couplet ?
Question 24
Verse composed of variable, usually
unrhymed lines having no fixed
metrical pattern. .
Answer 24
What is – free verse ?
Question 25
A lyric poem of fourteen lines,
following one or another of several
set rhyme-schemes.
Answer 25
What is – a sonnet ?
Final Jeopardy
A measurable, patterned unit of
poetic rhythm.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is – a foot ?