CSET English Subtest 1 Question and answers rated A+

Petrarchan sonnet ANSWER- Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet is more easily fulfilled in that language than in English. The original Italian sonnet form divides the poem's 14 lines into two parts, the first part being an octet and the second being a sestet. Elizabethan sonnet or Shakespearearn sonnet ANSWER- a type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Limerick ANSWER- a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear. rhyme ANSWER- 1. correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. Iambic pentameter ANSWER- a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. Couplet ANSWER- two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. Volta ANSWER- the turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words as But, Yet, or And yet. The volta occurs between the octet and sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes between the 8th and 9th or between the 12th and 13th lines of a Shakespearean sonnet, as in William Shakespeare's sonnet number 130: Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation/development ANSWER- is a literary genre that