Table Competition

Rules
Select ONE member of your group
to be the spokesperson. This
member will write the answer on a
white board. The spokesperson is
the ONLY member who will raise
the white board when your group
has determined the answer.

Who goes first?

Roll the die.
Table 1!

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Poetic
Devices

Elements
of
Literature

Literary
Devices
#1

Literary
Devices
#2

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Poetic Devices

Elements of
Literature

Literary
Devices #1

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Literary
Devices #2

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Devices

Elements
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Literature

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Literary
Literary
Devices #1 Devices #2

This important
information is
given in the
introduction.
Answer

What are the

setting,
characters, and
conflict?

This the part in a plot

where the tension is at
the highest point.

Answer

What is the
climax?

This is the part in a

plot where the
tension is building.
Answer

What is the rising

action?

This is the part of a

plot where the conflict
is solved.

Answer

What is the
resolution?

What is
your
wager?

These are the types

of conflict.

Answer

What is internal Man

vs. Self, and external
Man vs. Man, Man vs.
Nature, & Man vs.
Society?

This is the
equivalent to a
paragraph, but in
poetry.
Answer

What is a stanza?

This is a piece of
writing that may be
used in speech or
song that usually
contains a rhythm.
Answer

What is a poem?

This is the pattern of

rhyme in the lines of a
poem.
Answer

What is the rhyme

scheme?

This is language that

creates pictures in the
readers mind and
reaches their five senses.
Answer

What is imagery?

This is an expression
that means something
other than the literal
meaning of its individual
words.
Answer

What is an idiom?

This is an interruption
that breaks the normal
time order of the plot
to show a past event.
Answer

What is a flashback?

This is using a person,

place or thing to stand
for itself and for
something beyond
itself as well.
Answer

What is symbolism?

This is a situations
atmosphere or a
characters attitude in
a piece of writing.
Answer

What is mood?

This is the authors

attitude towards
his/her subject.
Answer

What is tone?

This is the use of clues or

hints to suggest events
that will occur later in the
plot.
Answer

What is
foreshadowing?

This is a
comparison using
like or as.
Answer

What is a simile?

What is
your
wager?

This is a word that

sounds the way its
spelled.
Answer

What is
onomatopoeia?

This is a
comparison
without using
like or as.
Answer

What is a metaphor?

This is giving
humanlike
characteristics to
non-human things.
Answer

What is
personification?

This is an
exaggerated way of
describing things.
Answer

What is a hyperbole?

This is the repetition

of consonant sounds
in two or more
words.
Answer

What is consonance?

This is the repetition

of consonant sounds
at the beginning of
words.
Answer

What is alliteration?

This is the repetition

of vowel sounds in
two or more words.
Answer

What is assonance?

These are the two literary

devices used in this
sentence:

His healthy heart sings

happily.
Answer

What are alliteration

and personification?

These are the two literary

devices used in this
sentence:

She needs to hear the

pitter patter of feet.
Answer

What are consonance

and assonance?