Lietary Terms

Question 1

Couplet

Answer 1

A pair of lines of meter in poetry

Question 2

Foot

Answer 2

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Question 3

Iambic pentameter

Answer 3

Five sets of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Question 4

Meter

Answer 4

Iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme where each line consists of ten syllables

Question 5

Quatrain

Answer 5

A type of stanza consisting of four lines

Question 6

Rhyme scheme

Answer 6

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem

Question 7

Aside

Answer 7

Where the character speaks to the audience

Question 8

Blank verse

Answer 8

Am unrhymed meter

Question 9

Dialoguea

Answer 9

Someone speaking

Question 10

Drama

Answer 10

Romantically tragic

Question 11

Imagery

Answer 11

Visually descriptive or figurative language

Question 12

Inversion

Answer 12

Literary technique where the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter

Question 13

Dramatic irony

Answer 13

Where the full significance of a character’s words are clear to the audience but are unknown to the other character

Question 14

Verbal irony

Answer 14

Saying one thing and meaning the other

Question 15

Irony of situation

Answer 15

Where the audience knows more than the character

Question 16

Monologue

Answer 16

A long speech by a character

Question 17

Oxymoron

Answer 17

A figure of speech where apparently contradictory terms appear together

Question 18

Personification

Answer 18

Giving human qualities in inanimate objects

Question 19

Prologue

Answer 19

A separate introductory section of a literary work

Question 20

Prose

Answer 20

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form

Question 21

Pun

Answer 21

The use of words that sound alike but mean different things

Question 22

Rhyming couplet

Answer 22

In which the couplet rhymes

Question 23

Soliloquy

Answer 23

A character speaking to themselves while alone on stage

Question 24

Sonnet

Answer 24

A form of poetry that originated in Italy

Question 25

Split line

Answer 25

When two character share a line of dialogue

Question 26

Tragedy

Answer 26

A flawed protagonist is placed in a stressful situation and it ends badly for them

Question 27

Verse

Answer 27

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

Question 28

Alliterative

Answer 28

The repetition of consonants