Day 20: APL Terms

Question 1

a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage

Answer 1

Soliloquy

Question 2

a distinctive poetic style that uses a system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of 14 lines, arranged in a set rhyme scheme or pattern. Italian and English style

Answer 2

Sonnet

Question 3

usually written in iambic pentameter. Consists first of an octave, or eight lines, which asks a question or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a. The sestet, or last six lines, offers an answer, or a resolution to the proposed problem, and follows the rhyme scheme c-d-e-c-d-e

Answer 3

Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet

Question 4

Octave and sestet were replaced by three quatrains, each having its own independent rhyme scheme typically rhyming every other line, and ending with a rhyme couplet.

Answer 4

English/Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 5

the voice that talks to the reader in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction.

Answer 5

Speaker

Question 6

a talk given in public

Answer 6

Speech

Question 7

the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play

Answer 7

Stage Directions