1. Jeopardy

2. Question
The repetition of first consonants in
a group of words.

3. Answer
What is – alliteration ?

4. Question
A work that makes fun of
something or someone .

5. Answer
What is – a satire ?

6. Question
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
scheme.

7. Answer
What is – free verse ?

8. Question
A comparison that uses “like” or
“as”; a stated comparison of unlike
things .

9. Answer
What is – a simile ?

10. Question
A reference to something or someone,
often literary.

11. Answer
What is – an allusion?

12. Question
A 14-line poem written in iambic
pentameter .

13. Answer
What is – a sonnet ?

14. Question
A major character who opposes the
protagonist, or main character, in a
story or play .

15. Answer
What is – the antagonist ?

16. Question
A section of poetry separated from
the sections before and after it; a
verse “paragraph” .

17. Answer
What is – a stanza ?

18. Question
The repetition of vowel sounds .

19. Answer
What is – assonance ?

20. Question
The use of one thing to represent
another .

21. Answer
What is – symbolism ?

22. Question
A kind of style, usually of art or
literature; e.g. mystery, romance,
or western

23. Answer
What is – genre ?

24. Question
The central idea of a work.

25. Answer
What is – theme ?

26. Question
Unrhymed lines of poetry, usually
in iambic pentameter.

27. Answer
What is – blank verse ?

28. Question
The author’s attitude toward his or
her subject; i.e. pessimistic, angry,
or optimistic .

29. Answer
What is – tone ?

30. Question
The point at which the action in a
story or play reaches its emotional
peak .

31. Answer
What is – climax ?

32. Question
A huge exaggeration.

33. Answer
What is – hyperbole ?

34. Question
The vantage point in which a narrator
is removed from the story and knows
everything that needs to be known.

35. Answer
What is – the omniscient point of
view ?

36. Question
The elements that create a plot .

37. Answer
What is – conflict ?

38. Question
The time and place of the action of
a literary work.

39. Answer
What is – setting ?

40. Question
Ten-syllable lines in which every
other syllable is stressed .

41. Answer
What is – iambic pentameter ?

42. Question
The vantage point in which a narrator
tells the story in the third person but
often confines him or herself to what
is experienced, thought, and felt by a
single or limited number of characters.

43. Answer
What is – limited point of view ?

44. Question
The conflict within one character.

45. Answer
What is – internal conflict ?

46. Question
Correspondence of terminal sounds
of words or of lines of verse.

47. Answer
What is – rhyme ?

48. Question
The use of description that helps the
reader imagine how something looks,
sounds, feels, smells, or tastes .

49. Answer
What is – imagery ?

50. Question
The repetition of identical consonant
sounds before and after differing
vowel sounds.

51. Answer
What is – consonance ?

52. Question
The conflict among or between
characters, society, and/or nature.

53. Answer
What is – external conflict ?

54. Question
The feeling or atmosphere that a
writer creates for a reader; reflection
of an author’s attitude toward a
subject or theme.

55. Answer
What is – mood ?

56. Question
An expression of phrase that is less
harsh or more polite than the word
it represents

57. Answer
What is – euphemism?

58. Question
A rhyme that occurs within one line .

59. Answer
What is – internal rhyme ?

60. Question
A measurable unit of stressed
and unstressed syllables.

61. Answer
What is – a foot ?

62. Question
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem,
often set off from the rest of the
poem.

63. Answer
What is – a couplet ?

64. Question
A type of poetry that expresses the
poet’s emotions, often telling some
sort of brief story, engaging the
reader in the experience.

65. Answer
What is – lyric poetry ?

66. Question
A technique in which an author
gives clues about something that
will happen later in the story .

67. Answer
What is – foreshadowing ?

68. Question
A comparison that doesn’t use
“like” or “as”; an implied
comparison of unlike things.

69. Answer
What is – a metaphor ?

70. Question
Rhyming words that are at the end
of their respective lines—what is
normally considered normal rhyme .

71. Answer
What is – end rhyme ?

72. Question
The pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables in the lines of a poem.

73. Answer
What is – meter ?

74. Question
A long poem narrating the adventures
of a heroic figure .

75. Answer
What is – an epic ?

76. Question
The use of words that sound like
what the mean, such as “buzz”.

77. Answer
What is – onomatopoeia ?

78. Question
The point of view of a piece of
writing in which the narrator refers
to himself as “I” .

79. Answer
What is – first person ?

80. Question
A seeming contradiction.

81. Answer
What is – a paradox ?

82. Question
The resolution of the conflict in a
plot after the climax; i.e. tying up
the loose ends or wrapping up the
story.

83. Answer
What is – Denouement

84. Question
The action of a story; summarizes
the plan or main story of a literary
work .

85. Answer
What is – plot ?

86. Question
Giving an inanimate object human
characteristics .

87. Answer
What is – personification ?

88. Question
Writing organized into sentences and
paragraphs.

89. Answer
What is – prose ?

90. Question
The main character of a novel, play
or story .

91. Answer
What is – the protagonist ?

92. Question
The use of a word in a way that plays
on it different meanings.

93. Answer
What is – a pun?

94. Question
A familiar, overused expression
such as ‘quite as a mouse’ or
‘busy as a bee’

95. Answer
What is – a cliché?

96. Question
The use of two opposite or
contradictory ideas; for example,
plastic glasses or sweet sorrow

97. Answer
What is – oxymoron ?

98. Question
Language that conveys a certain
idea by saying just the opposite;
divided into three types.

99. Answer
What is – irony ?