Vocab 2

Question 1

admonish

Answer 1

warn or reprimand someone firmly; advise or urge someone earnestly

Question 2

akimbo

Answer 2

with hands on hips and elbows turned outward

Question 3

lassitude

Answer 3

state of physical/mental weariness, lack of energy

Question 4

licentious

Answer 4

promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual manners; disregarding accepted rules in literature/grammar

Question 5

muse

Answer 5

to be absorbed in thought

Question 6

pecuniary

Answer 6

relating to/consisting of money

Question 7

plight (verb)

Answer 7

pledge/promise solemnly (marriage/faith)

Question 8

plight (noun)

Answer 8

dangerous/difficult situation

Question 9

subversive (adj)

Answer 9

undermining the authority of established system

Question 10

vacuous

Answer 10

having/lacking intelligence, mindless, empty

Question 11

Elizabethan/Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 11

14 lines in a poem; rhyme scheme ABABCDCD+EFEF+GG

Question 12

meter - foot

Answer 12

the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry

Question 13

meter - iamb

Answer 13

unstressed, stressed (short, long) in sonnets; “upon”

Question 14

meter - trochee

Answer 14

stressed, unstressed (long, short) in sonnets; “midnight”

Question 15

meter - anapest

Answer 15

unstressed, unstressed, stressed (short, short, long); “in the dark”

Question 16

meter - dactyl

Answer 16

stressed, unstressed, unstressed (long, short, short); “go and ask” “feverish”

Question 17

enjambment

Answer 17

the continuation of a sentence without a pause after the end of a line/stanza; opposite of end-stopped line

Question 18

caesura

Answer 18

a break in the line of a verse dictated by a sense of natural speech/rhythm; “to be or not to be - that is the question”

Question 19

end-stopped line

Answer 19

the ending of a line - ensures each line has meaning; opposite of enjambment

Question 20

assonance

Answer 20

repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds in literature; “mike’s bike has bright white stripes”

Question 21

consonance

Answer 21

repetition of identical/similar consonant sounds in literature; “the string was long and strong and played ping pong”

Question 22

alliteration

Answer 22

repetition of identical consonant sounds in literature; “betty better have brought a buttload of butter”

Question 23

free verse

Answer 23

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

Question 24

stanza

Answer 24

group of lines forming basic recurring metrical unit in a poem, a verse

Question 25

octave

Answer 25

first 8 lines of a sonnet

Question 26

sestet

Answer 26

the last 6 lines of a sonnet

Question 27

couplet

Answer 27

two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme

Question 28

Italian / Petrarchan

Answer 28

divides 14 lines into two sections: 8-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA –> then 6-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE