ILA + LT - A7

Question

How does assonance add musical quality to a poem?

Answer 1

- Open sounds like 'o', 'u' and 'a' slow the rhythm down

- Slender sounds like 'i' and 'e' create a quicker pace

Answer 2

The basic unit of metre. It consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables.

Answer 3

1. Count number of syllables

2. Identify position of stresses or accents

3. define line into feet

4. Give name (iambic tetrameter (4), spondaic heptameter (7))

Answer 4

When a pause occurs naturally at the end of a line

Answer 5

A short story in verse, often accompanied by music, that belong to an oral tradition of poetry.

Answer 6

1. They rarely tell a story from beginning to end (start at climax)

2. Description is brief (no info about characters)

3. Narrative is impersonal (motives behind actions remain unexplained)

4. Refrain

5. Stock descriptive phrases (milk-white steed, gallant knight)

Answer 7

1. A little song in which the poet expresses his thoughts
2. 14 lines
3. 8 lines introduce subject, 6 lines writer's opinion
4. ABBA ABBA CDC CDC

Answer 8

Repeated verses with the same number of lines

Answer 9

1. It contributes to the telling of the story
2. It reveals characters

Answer 10

Similar to a soliloquy, but there are people who hear what the person says.

Answer 11

Type of irony which occurs when an event or situation turns out to be the reverse of what is expected or appropriate

Answer 12

Type of irony which occurs when the audience knows something that one or more of the characters on stage do not know.

Answer 13

- it could mirror the feelings of a character
- It could be an antagonist (people try to break free of the setting, (slum))
- It could reveal a character (the way they describe a setting, may tell something about person)
- It could reinforce a theme (desolate house = loneliness)

Answer 14

- What is their relationship to the plot? (major or minor role)
- What is the degree to which they are developed? (complex or 1D)
- Do they grow over the course of the story? (or become more significant)

Answer 15

- Telling (He's a careless boy)
- Showing (How does he react in a situation, writer is silent)
   + Dialogue
   + Action (brave, coward)
   + Comparison with other characters
   + Setting (in a war setting people are not happy)
   + Names (Heathcliff = wild, rugged)
   + Appearance

Answer 16

1. Conflict (with himself or with external forces)
2. Suspense (denying the reader information)
3. Subplot (helps understanding the main plot)

Answer 17

- The omniscient (he knows everything, all the thoughts, etc.)
- Limited omniscient (someone in the story tells it.)
- Dramatic (you don't know any thoughts)

Answer 18

When a writer tries to represent the conscious and subconscious thoughts and impressions in the mind of a character.

Answer 19

The central idea that directs and shapes the subject matter of a story, play or poem. It is the views of life or the insights into human experiences that the author wishes to communicate to his readers.

Answer 20

A theme that is clearly stated in the text

Answer 21

The theme is the answer to the question "what does the story mean", while the subject is the answer to the question "what is the story about".

Answer 22

A figure of speech in which a series of words or expressions rises step by step, beginning with the least important and ending with the most important. The term may also be used to refer only to the last item in the series.

Answer 23

An example of figurative language that states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect. Similes, metaphors and personification are figures of speech, which are based on comparisons.

Answer 24

A play of words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time. e.g. I'm grave for tomorrow = he's dead.

Answer 25

An overstatement or deliberate exaggeration. Its purpose is to emphasize something or go produce a humorous effect. e.g. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

Answer 26

A placement of two people, things or ideas in such a way as to show how they are different.

Answer 27

A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.

Answer 28

In a plot structure this occurs after the climax. It ties up the loose ends of a story.

Answer 29

- Setting
- Exposition
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
- Resolution

Answer 30

This is a writers' technique in which the author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an incident of an earlier time.

Answer 31

A writing that helps the reader to picture scenes, events and characters.

Answer 32

1st person - Story told from perspective of a character ("I")
2nd person - Author addresses the story to "you"
3rd person limited
3rd person omniscient

Answer 33

The character or voice from whose point of view events are told.

Answer 34

- Lyrical -A single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
- Narrative - Poetry that is meant to tell a story
- Dramatic - Poetry that is meant to be performed on stage
- Sonnet

Answer 35

-Internal - rhyming within a line
-End - rhyming at the end of a line
-Slant/impure - near rhyme. When words don't quite rhyme
-Eye rhyme - Rhyme that depends on spelling (flow/how_

ILA + LT - A7

35 important questions on ILA + LT - A7

How does assonance add musical quality to a poem?

What is a foot?

How do you analyse metre?

What is the rhythmic device 'end-stopped line'?

What is a ballad?

What are the 5 characteristics of a ballad?

What is a sonnet?

What is a stanza?

What are the two major functions of dialogue in a play?

What is a monologue?

What is situational irony?

What is dramatic irony?

What could be the function of a setting?

How do you define a character?

In what ways could a character be conveyed?

What are the three elements that stories usually share?

What sort of third-person narrators are there?

What is a stream of consciousness?

What is a theme?

What is an overt theme?

What is the difference between a theme and a subject?

What is a climax?

What is a figure of speech?

What is a pun?

What is a hyperbole?

What is a juxtaposition?

What is a paradox?

What is falling action?

What is the general structure of a plot?

What is a flashback?

What is a description?

Which types of point-of-views are there?

What is a narrator?

Which types of poetry are there?

What types of rhyme are there?

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