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5 Written Questions

1. A poem written in fourteen lines. The Petrachan sonnet (also called the Italian sonnet) falls into two parts: the first eight lines, called the octave and the final six lines, called the sestet. The lines of the octave rhyme abba, abba, while the lines of the sestet rhyme in variable ways such as cde, cde or cd, cd, cd. The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet) is written in three four-line sections (each section is called a quatrain) and a final pair of lines (called a couplet). Most commonly, the three quatrains follow the rhyme patterns abab cdcd efef and the closing couplet rhymes gg.
2. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last six lines of an Italian sonnet.
3. The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story..
4. A story that narrates strange happenings in a direct manner, without detailed descriptions of character.
5. The time and place where the action of a literary work occurs.

5 Matching Questions

1. stage direction
2. Soliloquy
3. quatrain
4. syntax
5. style

1. a A stanza of poetry containing four lines. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a couplet.
2. b A playwright’s descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play.
3. c The way an author chooses words, arranges them in lines, sentences, paragraphs, or stanzas, and conveys meaning through the use of imagery, rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, irony, and other devices.
4. d A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. If there are no other characters present, the soliloquy represents the character thinking aloud.
5. e The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Using the same or similar words, phrases, or images throughout a work for emphasis.
   1. Recognition
   2. setting
   3. Repetition
   4. resolution
2. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work
   1. sonnet
   2. theme
   3. tone
   4. tale
3. The main character in a tragic play.
   1. tragic hero
   2. tragic flaw
   3. tragedy
   4. theme
4. Use of language in an extremely restrained style, so as to literally state less than what the author anticipates the reader will understand
   1. sestet
   2. staging
   3. understatement
   4. setting
5. A line or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem or song, often at the end of stanzas, sometimes with small changes in the words.
   1. quatrain
   2. setting
   3. refrain
   4. reversal

5 True/False Question

1. tragic flaw → A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.
   

   True        False

2. Recognition → Using the same or similar words, phrases, or images throughout a work for emphasis.
   

   True        False

3. rhyme → The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. End rhyme indicates rhymes that occur at the end of lines of poetry, while internal rhyme indicates rhymes within lines.
   

   True        False

4. subject → A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
   

   True        False

5. rhythm → The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. End rhyme indicates rhymes that occur at the end of lines of poetry, while internal rhyme indicates rhymes within lines.
   

   True        False