poetry unit: jeopardy review! feraco english 9 10 march 2009
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Poetry Unit: Jeopardy Poetry Unit: Jeopardy Review!Review!
FeracoFeraco
English 9English 9
10 March 200910 March 2009
Ground rulesGround rules 1 piece of paper per student1 piece of paper per student Each student answers each question Each student answers each question
in pen – no scratch-outs allowed!in pen – no scratch-outs allowed! Each student has roughly 40 seconds Each student has roughly 40 seconds
to respond to each questionto respond to each question Scoring rules:Scoring rules:
• Answers earn creditAnswers earn credit• Incorrect answers lose creditIncorrect answers lose credit• Each student answers each question Each student answers each question
independently!independently! Each student earns points for the Each student earns points for the
teamteam Top team gets extra credit on exam!Top team gets extra credit on exam!
Categories + Point Categories + Point ValuesValues
Poetry Handout Terms I Poetry Handout Terms I Poetry Handout Terms IIPoetry Handout Terms II Holt Textbook Terms IHolt Textbook Terms I Holt Textbook Terms IIHolt Textbook Terms II Poems IPoems I Poems IIPoems II Grab Bag!Grab Bag! The questions are worth 100 / 200 / The questions are worth 100 / 200 /
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What is imagery?What is imagery?
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What is language that appeals to What is language that appeals to our senses?our senses?
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What is diction?What is diction?
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What is a writer’s choice of What is a writer’s choice of words and the arrangement of words and the arrangement of those words in phrases, those words in phrases, sentences, or the lines of a sentences, or the lines of a poem?poem?
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What is the term for a fourteen-What is the term for a fourteen-line poem with a regular rhyme line poem with a regular rhyme patten, usually written in patten, usually written in iambic pentamenter?iambic pentamenter?
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What is a sonnet?What is a sonnet?
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What is a writer's or speaker's What is a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject or attitude toward a subject or toward an audience?toward an audience?
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What is tone?What is tone?
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In “Forgive My Guilt,” what has In “Forgive My Guilt,” what has the boy done that inspired the the boy done that inspired the poem’s title?poem’s title?
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He shot needlessly at two birds, He shot needlessly at two birds, wounding instead of killing wounding instead of killing them, and listened to their cries them, and listened to their cries as they fled brokenly out to sea.as they fled brokenly out to sea.
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Describe the setting in James’ Describe the setting in James’ Wright’s “A Blessing.”Wright’s “A Blessing.”
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car, which he’s driven away from car, which he’s driven away from the highway to Rochester and the highway to Rochester and out to a field where two horses out to a field where two horses graze. Twilight is falling, and a graze. Twilight is falling, and a light breeze is blowing.light breeze is blowing.
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What is a situation where the What is a situation where the reader knows something a reader knows something a character does not?character does not?
Grab Bag $100 AnswerGrab Bag $100 Answer What is dramatic irony?What is dramatic irony?
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What is free verse poetry?What is free verse poetry?
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What is poetry that does not What is poetry that does not follow a regular pattern of rhyme follow a regular pattern of rhyme and meter?and meter?
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What is repetition?What is repetition?
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What is a device in which What is a device in which sounds, words, phrases, lines, or sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas are repeated for stanzas are repeated for emphasis?emphasis?
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What is a seventeen-syllable, What is a seventeen-syllable, three-line poem that presents three-line poem that presents images from nature or everyday images from nature or everyday life and reveals a greater truth life and reveals a greater truth or observation?or observation?
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What is a haiku?What is a haiku?
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What is the continuation of a What is the continuation of a sentence or clause over one or sentence or clause over one or more line breaks?more line breaks?
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What is enjambment?What is enjambment?
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Which road does the narrator Which road does the narrator choose in Robert Frost’s “The choose in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”?Road Not Taken”?
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He takes “the one less traveled He takes “the one less traveled by.”by.”
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Why was the little girl in the Why was the little girl in the church in “Ballad of church in “Ballad of Birmingham”?Birmingham”?
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Because her mother feared she Because her mother feared she would be exposing herself to would be exposing herself to danger if she marched in the danger if she marched in the streets for civil rights, and urged streets for civil rights, and urged her to make a difference by her to make a difference by singing at church (where it was singing at church (where it was safe) instead.safe) instead.
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What does Li-Young Lee do for What does Li-Young Lee do for his wife in “The Gift”?his wife in “The Gift”?
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He pulls a splinter from her He pulls a splinter from her hand, just as his father did for hand, just as his father did for him during childhood.him during childhood.
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What is the definition of What is the definition of onomatopoeia?onomatopoeia?
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What are words that sound like What are words that sound like what they mean?what they mean?
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What is connotation?What is connotation?
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What are What are the images or the images or associations a word suggests?associations a word suggests?
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What is a short poem that What is a short poem that expresses a speaker's thoughts expresses a speaker's thoughts or feelings?or feelings?
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What is a lyric poem?What is a lyric poem?
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What is a symbolic comparison What is a symbolic comparison that is carried out over an entire that is carried out over an entire piece?piece?
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What is an extended metaphor?What is an extended metaphor?
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Nikki Giovanni claims that the Nikki Giovanni claims that the world is not a pleasant place to world is not a pleasant place to be without _________________.be without _________________.
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Someone to hold and be held by.Someone to hold and be held by.
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What are “fire” and “ice” in What are “fire” and “ice” in Robert Frost’s poem of the same Robert Frost’s poem of the same name?name?
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Fire represents desire, while ice Fire represents desire, while ice represents hatred.represents hatred.
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What is a poem that presents a What is a poem that presents a series of different images for a series of different images for a common purpose, usually in list common purpose, usually in list form?form?
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What is a catalog poem?What is a catalog poem?
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What is approximate rhyme?What is approximate rhyme?
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What is the poetic usage of What is the poetic usage of words whose sounds do not words whose sounds do not quitequite rhyme? rhyme?
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What is meter?What is meter?
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What is a regular pattern of What is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed stressed and unstressed syllables?syllables?
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What is a song or poem that tells What is a song or poem that tells a story, often about love or a story, often about love or death, and can be sad or death, and can be sad or humorous?humorous?
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What is a ballad?What is a ballad?
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What is the moment of discovery What is the moment of discovery or enlightenment in a traditional or enlightenment in a traditional haiku?haiku?
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What is a satori?What is a satori?
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with regret about “Those Winter with regret about “Those Winter Sundays”?Sundays”?
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Because he took his father’s Because he took his father’s sacrifices for granted sacrifices for granted (concentrating instead on his (concentrating instead on his father’s bad moods), and spoke father’s bad moods), and spoke indifferently to him as a result. indifferently to him as a result.
Poems II Poems II $400$400 Why is the woman struggling in Why is the woman struggling in
“Señora X No More”?“Señora X No More”?
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She’s illiterate and old, and She’s illiterate and old, and struggles against the odds – and struggles against the odds – and her own fears, shame, and her own fears, shame, and exhaustion - to learn how to exhaustion - to learn how to write her own name. write her own name.
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in “Introduction to Poetry”?in “Introduction to Poetry”?
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They just want to know the They just want to know the “solution” – the real meaning – “solution” – the real meaning – of the poem, and they don’t care of the poem, and they don’t care about anything else. Collins about anything else. Collins speaks of this in a symbolic speaks of this in a symbolic passage that shows them tying passage that shows them tying up and torturing the poem in up and torturing the poem in order to learn its secret.order to learn its secret.
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What is a foot?What is a foot?
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What is What is a set of at least a set of at least one one stressed syllable and one or more stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables? (These are unstressed syllables? (These are iambs, dactyls, etc.)iambs, dactyls, etc.)
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What is an anapest?What is an anapest?
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What is a foot consisting two What is a foot consisting two unstressed syllables followed by unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable?a stressed syllable?
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What is a figure of speech that What is a figure of speech that merely suggests that something merely suggests that something is something else?is something else?
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What is an implied metaphor?What is an implied metaphor?
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What is a phrase or stanza What is a phrase or stanza repeated throughout a poem, repeated throughout a poem, common to the ballad form?common to the ballad form?
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What is a refrain?What is a refrain?
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What does the personified What does the personified snowman “do” in “Boy at the snowman “do” in “Boy at the Window,” and why?Window,” and why?
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He feels such sorrow for the boy He feels such sorrow for the boy at the window – who is at the window – who is surrounded by “such warmth, surrounded by “such warmth, such light, such love, and so such light, such love, and so much fear” – that he “weeps.”much fear” – that he “weeps.”
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Why did Richard Cory kill Why did Richard Cory kill himself?himself?
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He was surrounded by all the He was surrounded by all the riches he could ever want, riches he could ever want, possessed all of the qualities he possessed all of the qualities he could ever need, and had earned could ever need, and had earned the respect of everyone he met…the respect of everyone he met…but he still couldn’t find but he still couldn’t find happiness.happiness.
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What is scanning / scansion?What is scanning / scansion?
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What is the process of taking the What is the process of taking the poem apart to analyze the poem apart to analyze the rhythm?rhythm?