Elemets of Litature

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denouncement

Question 2

Exposition

Answer 2

Characters and their situations are introduced

Question 3

Denouncement

Answer 3

The final resolution if the plot

Question 4

Type of poem Sonnet

Answer 4

A fixed verse for of Italian origin which consists of 14 lines that are five foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme.

Question 5

Limerick

Answer 5

A form of short humorous verse
Often Nonsensical
Abbas 3 feet in all the lines expect the 3rd and 4th with have have 2

Question 6

Cinquain

Answer 6

A poem with a five line stanza

Similar to a haiku there are two syllables in the first and last lines and 8 in the 3 middle lines.

Question 7

Haiku

Answer 7

A popular unrhymed form that is limit d to seventeen syllables arranged in thee lines ;575
Japan’s most popular form

Question 8

The patterns of the sound and rhyme

Answer 8

Until the invention of the pruning press poetry was oral and often set to music. Rhymed stories are easier to remember and were probably sung.
The verse form is the rhythmic pattern of signal verse
The stanza is the grip of verses

Question 9

Rhyme and free verse

Answer 9

Alliteration

Repetition adds to the meaning and the pleasure of reading

Question 10

Slant rhyme

Answer 10

When the final constant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different
Occurs frequently in Irish, Welsh, and Icelandic verse

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

Occurs when the initial sounds of a word beginning either with a Constant or vowel, are repeated I. Close succession

Question 12

Assonance

Answer 12

Occurs in the middle of the word

Gives a sense of continuity and fluidity to the verse