CSET English Subtest 1 Exam Questions with Complete Solutions

Villanelle - Answer-An intricate French poetic form with 19 lines divided into 5 3-lined stanzas (called tercets), and one final quatrain. It has only 2 rhyming sounds, so it is difficult to write one in English. Petrarchan sonnet - Answer-Italian sonnet with the rhyme scheme of abba abba. It divides into 2 parts, the first part being an octet and the second being a sestet. Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet - Answer-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-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-2 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. Bildungsroman - Answer-is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age) Modernism - Answer- literature - self-conscious breaks from traditional styles of poetry and verse - industrialization. (T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, James Joyce) Postmodernism - Answer-1960-Present literature - fragmentation - Paradox - Unreliable Narrator (Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, Allen Ginsberg)