Jeopardy Review #1

Poetry Test

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Devices Forms Schools Poets Random

100A Question

Definition: word choice

100A Answer

Diction

200A Question

An “almost” rhyme

200A Answer

Slant Rhyme

300A Question

Repetition of vowel sounds

300A Answer

Assonance

400A Question

The opposite of free verse

400A Answer

Closed Form

500A Question

Removal of a vowel or syllable

to preserve meter

500A Answer

Elision

100B Question

A five-line, humorous

poem

100B Answer

Limerick

200B Question

The type of stanza usually

used in a ballad

200B Answer

Quatrain

300B Question

Type of meter used in a ballad

300B Answer

Iambic

400B Question

A mournful, lamenting

poem

400B Answer

Elegy

500B Question

A poem in response to visual art

500B Answer

Ekphrasis

100C Question

This poetic movement relies on verbal delivery

of the poems

100C Answer

Slam Poetry

200C Question

These poets rejected free verse in favor of traditional

poetic forms.

200C Answer

New Formalists

300C Question

These poets often use an unusual

metaphor and end with a paradox

300C Answer

Metaphysical Poets

400C Question

These poets were abolitionists

400C Answer

Fireside Poets

500C Question

These poets reveal intimate personal info in their poems

500C Answer

Confessional Poets

100D Question

What is the correct name of Robert Frost’s poem about the diverging paths in the woods?

100D Answer

“The Road Not Taken”

200D Question

Name an imagist poet.

200D Answer

William Carlos Williams

300D Question

Name two Langston Hughes poems

300D Answer

“Dreams”

“I, Too, am America”

“America Never Was America to Me”

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

400D Question

This poet wrote “Mirror”

400D Answer

Sylvia Plath

500D Question

This poet rejected capital letters

500D Answer

e.e cummings

100E Question

T/F

We underline or italicize the titles of

poems.

100E Answer

False. We put them in

quotes.

200E Question

T/F: The Beat Poets accepted poetic & cultural conventions

200E Answer

False. They rejected

conventions.

300E QuestionT/F

Robert Frost rejected the new style of free

verse

300E Answer

True: “I would just as soon write free

verse as play tennis with the net down.”

400E Question

T/F

A Haiku has 17 syllables total.

400E Answer

True, 5-7-5

500E Question

T/F

This jeopardy quiz is fun.

500E Answer

TRUE!