This board helps players review English / ELA · Poetry through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Forms, Sound Devices, Figurative Language, Structure, Famous Poets. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme.
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Sonnet
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Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
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Alliteration
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Comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
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Simile
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A group of lines in a poem.
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Stanza
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Wrote 154 sonnets; English playwright.
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William Shakespeare
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Forms
- $100 — 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme.
- Sonnet
- $200 — 3-line Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables.
- Haiku
- $300 — A poem that tells a story.
- Narrative poem (or ballad)
- $400 — Poetry without regular rhyme or meter.
- Free verse
- $500 — A funny 5-line poem with AABBA rhyme.
- Limerick
Sound Devices
- $100 — Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
- Alliteration
- $200 — Words that imitate sounds (buzz, crash).
- Onomatopoeia
- $300 — Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
- Assonance
- $400 — Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- Meter
- $500 — A unit of meter (e.g., iamb, trochee).
- Foot
Figurative Language
- $100 — Comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
- Simile
- $200 — Direct comparison without 'like'/'as'.
- Metaphor
- $300 — Giving human traits to non-human things.
- Personification
- $400 — Extreme exaggeration for effect.
- Hyperbole
- $500 — A reference to another work or event.
- Allusion
Structure
- $100 — A group of lines in a poem.
- Stanza
- $200 — A 4-line stanza.
- Quatrain
- $300 — Pattern of rhymes at line ends (e.g., ABAB).
- Rhyme scheme
- $400 — When a sentence runs past the end of a line.
- Enjambment
- $500 — The rhythmic pattern with 5 iambs per line.
- Iambic pentameter
Famous Poets
- $100 — Wrote 154 sonnets; English playwright.
- William Shakespeare
- $200 — Reclusive Amherst poet ('Hope is the thing with feathers').
- Emily Dickinson
- $300 — Wrote 'The Raven'.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- $400 — Harlem Renaissance poet ('I, Too').
- Langston Hughes
- $500 — Wrote 'The Road Not Taken'.
- Robert Frost
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