CSET English Subtest 1.Final Exam Test 2024\2025.
Villanelle
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
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
Written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the
rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
Limerick
a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba,
popularized by Edward Lear.
rhyme
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are
used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Iambic pentameter
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
2 lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
Volta
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
is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist
from youth to adulthood (coming of age)
, CSET English Subtest 1.Final Exam Test 2024\2025.
Modernism
1900-1960 literature
- self-conscious breaks from traditional styles of poetry and verse
- industrialization. (T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, James Joyce)
Postmodernism
1960-Present literature
- fragmentation - Paradox - Unreliable Narrator (Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, Allen Ginsberg)
Romanticism
1800-1850 literature
-overflowing of emotions
-individualism
- glorification
-Reaction to Industrial Revolution
Hellenistic
323 BC-31BC literature
- Ancient Greek
- The Epic/Epic Poems
- Gods, Humans, Heroes
(Homer)
Ab Ovo
Latin "from the egg" - narrative that starts at beginning of the plot & moves forward
chronologically.
In Medias Res
Latin "in the middle of things" - starts in middle of the plot
-heighten dramatic tension
-create sense of mystery
-flashback/memories
Stream of Consciousness
Character's thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and memories are presented in
discombobulated, fragmented form.
Villanelle
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
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
Written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the
rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
Limerick
a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba,
popularized by Edward Lear.
rhyme
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are
used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Iambic pentameter
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
2 lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
Volta
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
is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist
from youth to adulthood (coming of age)
, CSET English Subtest 1.Final Exam Test 2024\2025.
Modernism
1900-1960 literature
- self-conscious breaks from traditional styles of poetry and verse
- industrialization. (T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, James Joyce)
Postmodernism
1960-Present literature
- fragmentation - Paradox - Unreliable Narrator (Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, Allen Ginsberg)
Romanticism
1800-1850 literature
-overflowing of emotions
-individualism
- glorification
-Reaction to Industrial Revolution
Hellenistic
323 BC-31BC literature
- Ancient Greek
- The Epic/Epic Poems
- Gods, Humans, Heroes
(Homer)
Ab Ovo
Latin "from the egg" - narrative that starts at beginning of the plot & moves forward
chronologically.
In Medias Res
Latin "in the middle of things" - starts in middle of the plot
-heighten dramatic tension
-create sense of mystery
-flashback/memories
Stream of Consciousness
Character's thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and memories are presented in
discombobulated, fragmented form.
