Terms

Question 1

lyric

Answer 1

(as adjective): expressing the (usually internal) emotional,
intellectual, or spiritual state of a speaker, writer, or character

Question 2

speaker

Answer 2

the perspective, voice, or persona through which a lyric
poem is expressed

Question 3

narrative

Answer 3

A fictional or nonfictional account of a series of related or
connected events

Question 4

narrator

Answer 4

The perspective, voice, or persona through which a narrative
account is rendered

Question 5

meter

Answer 5

The rhythm of, and the quantity of rhythmic units in, a line or lines of
poetry

Question 6

scansion

Answer 6

The process of identifying the stress pattern and rhythmic unit
quantity of a poem or a line of poetry in order to determine its meter

Question 7

apostrophe

Answer 7

rhetorical device by which a poetic speaker addresses a
person, place, or thing directly

Question 8

stanza

Answer 8

section of a poem containing the same number of lines (and often
the same metrical scheme) as other section

Question 9

verse paragraph

Answer 9

section of a poem containing a different number of lines
than other sections

Question 10

Petrarchan sonne

Answer 10

14-line poem with a regular meter and rhyme scheme,
generally dealing with unrequited love, divided into an octet and sestet with
the volta occurring between lines 8 and 9

Question 11

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 11

14-line poem with a regular meter and rhyme
scheme, generally dealing with unrequited love, divided into three quatrains
and a couplet with the volta occurring between lines 12 and 13

Question 12

volta

Answer 12

a turn or change in the treatment of the subject of a poem, typically a
sonnet

Question 13

blank verse

Answer 13

lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter