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!