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Literary Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge of Literature and Language

Challenge yourself with literary devices, scansion, poets, vocabulary, history, and culture. Answer questions on grammar and literature. Play now!

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Literary Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge of Literature and Language

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Literary Devices Scansion Poets Vocabulary History & Culture Grammar 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Primus pius parens

  5. Saeva terra

  6. Dum condit, dum facit, dum intrat

  7. Velut agmen equorum

  8. Saturnia

  9. The meter of the Aeneid

  10. The number of feet per line

  11. Three examples of diphthongs

  12. The metrical notation for a dactyl . . . a spondee

  13. Scan the first line of the Aeneid

  14. His poetry is nearly exclusively about his narcissistic lover.

  15. He died of a stomach fever.

  16. He fought on the side of the conspirators.

  17. He died on the isle of Tomi.

  18. He was a contemporary of Julius Caesar.

  19. urbs

  20. vita

  21. parvus

  22. litus

  23. heres

  24. Foundation of Rome

  25. 1184 BC

  26. Leader of the Dardanians

  27. Calchas

  28. Wife, Father, and son of Aeneas in Troy

  29. Tam, tot, talis, sic, ita, tantus indicate what type of clause?

  30. Independent subjunctives in the first person are what type?

  31. A subjunctive command is expressed:

  32. Gerunds of purpose follow what preposition

  33. What is the alternate name for the accusative and infinitive construction?

  34. Final Jeopardy Make your wager

  35. Name two of the Trojan lieutenants whom Aeneas and Achates see beseeching Dido at the end of Book I.

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