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Question 1

Italian sonnet

Answer 1

a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (such as cde cde or cdc dcd)

Question 2

lyric

Answer 2

originally, a song accompanied by lyre music. now, a relatively short poem expressing the thought or feeling of a single speaker.

Question 3

metaphor

Answer 3

a figurative expression consisting of two elements in which one element is provided with special attributes by being equated with a second, unlike element

Question 4

meter

Answer 4

refers to recurrent patterns of accented and unaccented syllables in verse

Question 5

metonymy

Answer 5

a figure of speech in which a word stands for a closely related idea

Question 6

monologue

Answer 6

a long, uninterrupted speech by a character

Question 7

mood

Answer 7

the atmosphere or general feeling of a work

Question 8

muses

Answer 8

the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who preside over various humanities

Question 9

narrator

Answer 9

the speaker of the story, not to be confused with the author.

Question 10

near rhyme

Answer 10

usually the occurrence of consonance where the rhyme is expected