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Final Jeopardy
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 What is the definition of personification?

 Personification is when a writer gives an object

the qualities of a person.
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 What is the definition of a simile?

 A simile is where two things are directly

compared, and ‘as’ or ‘like’ is used to compare.
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 What is the definition of a hyperbole?

 Hyperboles are figures of speech that use

intentional exaggeration.
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 What is an Oxymoron?

 An oxymoron is a figure of speech containing an

apparent contradiction.
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 What is the definition of alliteration?

 Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant

sounds in two or more words or syllables.
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 “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that
struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”

 Shakespeare: Part of Macbeth’s soliloquy.

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 “I woke up early on my born day, I’m twenty
years of blessing. The essence of adolescent
leaves my body now I’m fresh in.”

 This Verse is from a Nas Track

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 “Hands to the heavens, no man, no weapon.
Formed against, yes glory is destined.”

 These lines come from rappers Common and

John Legend.
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 “O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd!
She was a vixen when she went to school.”

 Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 “Too many storms have come and gone leaving
a trace of not one God-given ray.”

 Rapper: TLC’s ‘Waterfalls”

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 Describe the features of a Shakespearean
sonnet.

 14 lines. 3 quatrains. 1 rhyming couplet. Rhyme

scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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 What is the purpose of an elegy?

 To mourn the death of a person or lament

something lost.
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 Do elegies always have gloomy settings?

 No, some are pastoral

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 What is the definition of an ode?

 A type of lyric poetry, written without a

predetermined rhyme scheme, where you pay
tribute to something you really love.
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 What is the format of an Italian/Petrarchan
sonnet?

 It includes an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6

lines).
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 Give an example of a metaphor

 Ex: He was a lion in the battlefield.

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 Give an example of an oxymoron

 “Jumbo shrimp”, “silent scream”, “bitter sweet”,

“deafening silence”
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 Give an example of Hyperbole.

 I would die of embarrassment.

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 Give an example of alliteration.

 Peter Piper picked a pickle.

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 Give an example of assonance

 The fleet feet sweep by sleep.

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 How many beats are in a line for a sonnet? What
is this called?

 10 beats in one line. Iambic Pentameter

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 What type of poem is ‘O Captain! My captain?’

 An elegy!
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 What is the setting of a pastoral elegy?

 Set outdoors in a beautiful, summery landscape.

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 What is imagery?

 When you appeal to the senses of the body.

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 In Sonnet 18, the speaker begins the sonnet
with a metaphor, what was that metaphor?

 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

 Final Jeopardy
 What umbrella poetry term does ‘sonnet, elegy,
ode’ fall under?

 Lyric Poetry!