1. Literary Terms
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5. $100 Question from Big Words
The use of words to
imitate natural sounds
such as buzz or pop.

6. $100 Answer from Big Words
What is onomatopoeia?

7. $200 Question from Big Words
The repetition of the same
sound beginning several
words in sequence.

8. $200 Answer from Big Words
What is alliteration?

9. $300 Question from Big Words
A kind of metaphor in which
a nonhuman thing is talked
about as if it were human.

10. $300 Answer from Big Words
What is
personification?

11. $400 Question from Big Words
A line of poetry that
contains 5 iambs.

12. $400 Answer from Big Words
What is iambic
pentameter?

13. $500 Question from Big Words
Repetition of similar vowel
sounds that are followed by
different consonant sounds.

14. $500 Answer from Big Words
What is assonance?

15. $100 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry that does not have a
regular meter or rhyme
scheme.

16. $100 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is free verse?

17. $200 Question from Rhyme Time
A metrical foot or unit of
measure that consist on an
unstressed syllable followed by
a a stressed syllable.)

18. $200 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is iambic?

19. $300 Question from Rhyme Time
Poetry written in unrhymed
iambic pentameter.

20. $300 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is blank verse?

21. $400 Question from Rhyme Time
Repeated word, phrase,
line, or group of lines.

22. $400 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is a refrain?

23. $500 Question from Rhyme Time
Two consecutive lines
of poetry that rhyme.

24. $500 Answer from Rhyme Time
What is a couplet?

25. $100 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more words
that have the same or
nearly identical meanings.

26. $100 Answer from Word Plays
What is a synomym?

27. $200 Question from Word Plays
One of two or more
words that have
opposite meanings.

28. $200 Answer from Word Plays
What is an anyomym?

29. $300 Question from Word Plays
A figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two
unlike things, using a word
such as like, as, resembles, or
than.

30. $300 Answer from Word Plays
What is a simile?

31. $400 Question from Word Plays
A play on the multiple
meanings of a word or on two
words that sound alike but
have different meanings.

32. $400 Answer from Word Plays
What is a pun?

33. $500 Question from Word Plays
The use of words, phrases,
symbols, and ideas in such a
way as to evoke mental images
and sense impressions.

34. $500 Answer from Word Plays
What is figurative
language?

35. $100 Question from Think About It
A group of consecutive
lines in a poem that form
a single unit.

36. $100 Answer from Think About It
What is a stanza?

37. $200 Question from Think About It
The attitude a writer takes
toward the audience, a
subject, or a character.

38. $200 Answer from Think About It
What is tone?

39. $300 Question from Think About It
A statement which seems to
be a contradiction but
reveals the truth.

40. $300 Answer from Think About It
What is a paradox?

41. $400 Question from Think About It
A figure of speech in which an
address is made to an absent
person or a punctuation mark
is used to indicate the omission
of letter(s)

42. $400 Answer from Think About It
What is an apostrophe?

43. $500 Question from Think About It
The use of a person, place,
thing, or event that stands
for itself and for something
beyond itself as well.

44. $500 Answer from Think About It
What is symbolism?

45. $100 Question from Poetic Types
Ordinary language people
use in speaking or writing.

46. $100 Answer from Poetic Types
What is prose?

47. $200 Question from Poetic Types
A Japanese form of poetry
which consists of three
unrhymed lines of five, seven
and five syllables.

48. $200 Answer from Poetic Types
What is haiku?

49. $300 Question from Poetic Types
A light or humorous
verse form of five verses

50. $300 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a limerick?

51. $400 Question from Poetic Types
A song that tells a
story.

52. $400 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a ballad?

53. $500 Question from Poetic Types
Fourteen line lyric poem that is
usually written in iambic
pentameter and that has one of
several rhyme schemes.

54. $500 Answer from Poetic Types
What is a sonnet?

55. Final Jeopardy
The apparent paradox
achieved by the use of
words which seem to
contradict one another.

56. Final Jeopardy Answer
What is an oxymoron?
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