Vocabulary 4

Question 1

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 1

• aka Italian sonnet
• a sonnet that divides the poem into one section of eight lines (octave) and a second section of six lines (sestet)
• follows the “abba abba cde cde” rhyme scheme
• the sestet has a varying rhyme scheme

Question 2

Plot

Answer 2

the arrangement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of the events

Question 3

Protagonist

Answer 3

• the main character in a work (may or may not be heroic)
• ie: Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451
• ie: Ralph in Lord of the Flies

Question 4

Quatrain

Answer 4

• a poetic stanza of four lines
• ie:
  Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
  In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye
  Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Question 5

Realism

Answer 5

the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail
- Henry James and Mark Twain are authors in this school

Question 6

Refrain

Answer 6

• a repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song

- ie: “Glory, glory hallelujah: Glory, glory hallelujah.” from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Question 7

Rhetorical Question

Answer 7

• a question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered
• ie: the opening line of “The Road Not Taken,”
  Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
  That every man in arms should wish to be?

Question 8

Rhyme

Answer 8

• the repetition of the same or similar sounds

- most often at the ends of lines

Question 9

Rhythm

Answer 9

the modulation of weak and strong or stressed and unstressed elements in the flow of speech

Question 10

Rising Action

Answer 10

• the development of action in a work
• commonly located at the beginning
• first part of plot structure

Question 11

Sarcasm

Answer 11

• a form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift

Question 12

Satire

Answer 12

• a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure
• George Orwell and Jonathon Swift

Question 13

Scansion

Answer 13

the analysis of verse to show its meter

Question 14

Setting

Answer 14

the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play

Question 15

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 15

• aka an English sonnet
• divides the poem into three units of four lines each and a final unit of two
• “abab cdcd efef gg”

Question 16

Shaped Verse

Answer 16

• another name for concrete poetry

- supposed to be the shape of an object