Week 3 & 4

Question 1

Soliloquy

Answer 1

Dramatic speech uttered by one character while alone on stage.

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

A form of extended metaphor in which the objects, persons, places and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings outside the narrative itself.

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

A passing reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work (usually literary, mythological, biblical, or historical).

Question 4

Bathos

Answer 4

An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.

Question 5

Direct Characterization

Answer 5

The writer tells the reader what a character is like

Question 6

Indirect Characterization

Answer 6

The writer shows the reader what a character is like through his/her dialogue, actions or through other characters.

Question 7

Rhyme

Answer 7

The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words

Question 8

Rhyme scheme

Answer 8

A fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas

Question 9

End Rhyme

Answer 9

Rhymes that occur at the ends of the lines

Question 10

Internal Rhyme

Answer 10

A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur(s) within the line.

Question 11

Fixed Form

Answer 11

A form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage traditions (such as a sonnet or villanelle)

Question 12

Sonnet

Answer 12

A fixed form of 14 lines, normally in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to 1 or 2 main types – Italian or English

Question 13

English (Shakespearian) Sonnet

Answer 13

Sonnet rhyming a b a b c d c d e f e f g g. Content usually parallels the rhyme scheme, with 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet. A shift just before the couplet.

Question 14

Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet

Answer 14

Sonnet rhyming a b b a a b b a consisting of an octave and a sestet using any arrangement of 2 or 3 additional rhymes. Shift after 8’th line.