Poetry, Sound, and Structure

Question 1

A speech that a character in a play speaks aloud, but it can only be heard by that character and the audience. It is used as a way of expressing the inner thoughts and feelings of a character to an audience, or revealing important plot details that we couldn’t otherwise know about.

Answer 1

soliloquy

Question 2

Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

Answer 2

dialogue

Question 3

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Answer 3

couplet

Question 4

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

What type of poem is this?

Answer 4

sonnet

Question 5

What I thought to be

Flowers soaring to their boughs

Were bright butterflies.

What type of poem is this?

Answer 5

Haiku