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Literature Jeopardy Authors of Fiction Authors of Non Fiction Poetry Terms Types of Poetry Famous Poets Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Poetry Terms The repetition of the initial sounds of several words

$100 Answer from Poetry Terms What is alliteration?

$200 Question from Poetry Terms A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming

$200 Answer from Poetry Terms What is a couplet?

$300 Question from Poetry Terms A figure of speech which is an exaggeration or overstatement

$300 Answer from Poetry Terms What is a Hyperbole?

$400 Question from Poetry Terms A figure of speech which gives human qualities to an object or an animal

$400 Answer from Poetry Terms What is personification?

$500 Question from Poetry Terms A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike objects using the words “like” or “as”

$500 Answer from Poetry Terms What is a simile?

$100 Question from Types of Poetry A Japanese poetic form

$100 Answer from Types of Poetry What is a haiku?

$200 Question from Types of Poetry A poem consisting of 5 lines. The 1st line has 2 syllables, the 2nd line has 4 syllables, the 3rd line has 6 syllables, the 4th line has 8 syllables, the final line has 2 syllables

$200 Answer from Types of Poetry What is a Cinquain?

$300 Question from Types of Poetry A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

$300 Answer from Types of Poetry What is Blank Verse?

$400 Question from Types of Poetry A poem that uses a rhyming scheme of a-a-b-b-a in which the first, second, and fifth lines of each stanza rhyme as do the third and fourth lines

$400 Answer from Types of Poetry What is Limerick?

$500 Question from Types of Poetry A traditional song or poem taught to young children and handed down from generation to generation

$500 Answer from Types of Poetry What is a Nursery rhyme?

$100 Question from Famous Poets He wrote A Light in the Attic

$100 Answer from Famous Poets Who is Shel Silverstein?

$200 Question from Famous Poets She wrote: Hailstones and Halibut Bones

$200 Answer from Famous Poets Who is Mary O’Neill?

$300 Question from Famous Poets He wrote: A Pizza the Size of the Sun

$300 Answer from Famous Poets Who is John Prelutsky?

$400 Question from Famous Poets He wrote: The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks

$400 Answer from Famous Poets Who is John Ciardi?

$500 Question from Famous Poets She wrote: If I Were in Charge of the World

$500 Answer from Famous Poets Who is Judith Viorst?

$100 Question from Authors of Fiction She wrote: Walk Two Moons

$100 Answer from Authors of Fiction Who is Sharon Creech?

$200 Question from Authors of Fiction He wrote: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

$200 Answer from Authors of Fiction Who is Roald Dahl?

$300 Question from Authors of Fiction He wrote: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

$300 Answer from Authors of Fiction Who is Avi?

$400 Question from Authors of Fiction He wrote: The Chocolate Torch

$400 Answer from Authors of Fiction Who is Patrick Catling?

$500 Question from Authors of Fiction She wrote: Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret

$500 Answer from Authors of Fiction Who is Judy Bloom?

$100 Question from Authors of Non Fiction She wrote: The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System

$100 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction Who is Joanna Cole?

$200 Question from Authors of Non Fiction She wrote: The Mount Rushmore Story

$200 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction Who is Judith St. George?

$300 Question from Authors of Non Fiction He wrote: The Children of Topaz

$300 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction Who is Michael Tunnel?

$400 Question from Authors of Non Fiction He wrote: Pyramid

$400 Answer from Authors of Non Fiction Who is David Macaulay?

$500 Question from Authors of Non Fiction He wrote: The Great Wall of China

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