List 12

Question 1

Petrarchan Somnet

Answer 1

n. noun
1. A sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet following any of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd.

Example:
From Visions
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

Being one day at my window all alone,
So manie strange things happened me to see,
As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.
At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,
So faire as mote the greatest god delite;
Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.
Of which the one was blacke, the other white:
With deadly force so in their cruell race
They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,
That at the last, and in short time, I spide,
Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.
(Trans. Edmund Spenser)

Question 2

Quatrain

Answer 2

n. noun

1. A stanza or poem of four lines.

Question 3

Refrain

Answer 3

n. noun
1. A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza.
2. Music for the refrain of a song.
3. A song or melody.

Question 4

Scansion

Answer 4

n. noun

1. Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.

Question 5

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 5

n. noun
1. The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.

Question 6

Stanza

Answer 6

n. noun
1. One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.

Question 7

Stereotype

Answer 7

A stereotype is a character, with generalized traits (characteristics that make the character a group representative rather than an individual). Writers sometimes use stereotypes as minor characters.

Question 8

Stock Character

Answer 8

noun
1. a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.

Examples:
Alien Invaders
Action Hero
Black Brute

Question 9

Persona/ Speaker

Answer 9

n. noun
1. The character represented by the voice of the speaker in a literary work.
2. The characters in a dramatic or literary work.