Buildings to house soldiers, prisoners, or workers.
What are barracks?
100
The state of being in prison
What is incarceration?
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
The voice behind a poem (the "I" in a poem)
What is the speaker?
100
The rhythm of a poem.
What is meter?
200
Being in prison for a political reason
What is internment?
200
Comfort received by a person after a loss or a disappointment
What is a consolation?
200
This is a short Japanese poetic form that is usually written in three lines.
What is a haiku?
200
A typically short poetic form, found on gravestones.
What is an epitaph?
200
Poetry without meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
Money given to someone who has been wronged.
What is reparation?
300
Deeply involved in a conflict or difficult situation
What is embroiled?
300
In this poetic form from Malaysia, two lines from one stanza are repeated in the following stanza, but in a different order.
What is a pantoum?
300
This poetic form is similar to a haiku, but was invented by an American.
What is a lune?
300
Give the definition of "poetic form."
Poetic Form: the physical structure of a poem; the rules that guide a poem.
400
GROUP JEOPARDY
Use "embroiled" correctly in a sentence.
Example:
She was embroiled in a bitter argument.
400
Explain the difference between "internment" and "incarceration"
"Incarceration" refers to imprisonment, while "internment" is imprisonment for political reasons.
400
Describe the rules for writing a lune.
The poem must be three lines. The first line is 5 syllables, the second is 3, and the last line is 5 syllables.
400
GROUP JEOPARDY
Write an acrostic for the word, "Poetry"
Example:
Please remember to read
Original, beautiful,
Exciting and surprising
Things as you leave this school and
Run out into your high school
Years, my lovely students!
400
GROUP JEOPARDY
Invent a sentence that contains a metaphor.
Example:
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
--Emily Dickinson
500
GROUP JEOPARDY
Use "internment" correctly in a sentence.
Example:
I became depressed during my long internment.
500
Explain the difference between "consolation" and "reparation"
A consolation is a comfort given to someone who has suffered, while a reparation is usually money given to someone who has been wronged.
500
Give the name of this poetic form:
Here lies Good Old Fred
A great big rock
Fell on his head.
What is an epitaph?
500
Go to the board and correctly spell:
the poetic form, related to the acrostic, in which the first line begins with "A", the second with "B", all the way to "Z."
What is an Abecedarian?
500
GROUP JEOPARDY
Write a lune that uses a simile.
Example:
The setting sun, orange
and shining
like a golden egg.