H9 Lit Terms Jeopardy
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Satire Terms | Writing Tech. | Poetry Terms | Other Terms | Random Terms |
Satire Terms - $100
The quote below employs ________ humor:
Author and playwright Oscar Wilde was destitute and living in a cheap boarding house when he found himself on his deathbed. There are variations on what his exact words were, but his reputed last words were, "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
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Satire Terms - $200
"I had to wait in the station for ten days - an eternity." (Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness")
Satire Terms - $300
Saying "In the family way," instead of "pregnant."
Saying "B.O.," instead of "body odor."
Saying “A little thin on top," instead of "balding."
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Satire Terms - $400
"I am just going outside and may be some time." (Captain Lawrence Oates, Antarctic explorer, before walking out into a blizzard to face certain death, 1912)
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Satire Terms - $500
Polyphemus, the cyclops in The Odyssey, is tricked into believing Odysseus is named "Nohbody," says, "Nobody has hurt me. Nobody is going to kill me."
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Writing Techniques - $100
“I love thee freely, as men strive for right. / I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Writing Techniques - $200
“Five years have passed; / Five summers, with the length of / Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…” – William Wordsworth
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Writing Techniques - $300
“ . . . and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not." – Joan Didion
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Writing Techniques - $400
"[S]he now mourned someone who even before his death had made her a mourner." – Bernard Malamud
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Writing Techniques - $500
“Love without end, and without measure Grace” – John Milton
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Poetry Terms - $100
A shift or turn in a poem's meaning.
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Poetry Terms - $200
The way a poetic line flows--it takes into consideration the number of syllables in the line as well as the way each syllable is stressed (syllables can be stressed or unstressed).
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Poetry Terms - $300
“Her goodly eyes like sapphires shining bright, / Her forehead ivory white …”
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Poetry Terms - $400
“Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us? / Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?”
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Poetry Terms - $500
In a sonnet, these two lines would be considered a/an _____:
“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, / By self-example mayst thou be denied.”
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Other Terms - $100
A brief reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional.
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Other Terms - $200
An original model after which similar things are patterned; a perfect or typical example
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Other Terms - $300
An implied comparison (you're not literally saying "you are a rose") which is developed over the course of the text.
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Other Terms - $400
An abstract concept (such as love, the sea, snow, anger, etc.) that is given human characteristics, emotions, and written about as though it is human.
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Other Terms - $500
A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name.
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Random Terms - $100
All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests.
Random Terms - $200
The audience knows something the characters do not.
Random Terms - $300
Appeal to credibility.
Random Terms - $400
The use of literary devices or writing techniques to emphasize an idea.
Random Terms - $500
A statement in which two opposing ideas are stated in a balanced, parallel way.