How do you determine if a sonnet is written in an iambic...

1. How do you determine if a sonnet is written in an iambic pentameter? How is rhythm different from the rhyming scheme? Give an example.
2. Why was (and still is) there so much stigma associated with AIDS in the 1980s?
3. What kind of theatrical performance does Tony Kushner prefer? What does he say about the way Angels in America should be staged?
4. Why are lyric poems considered to be subjective? Explain and give an example from one of the poems discussed in class: explain how it is subjective.
5. Explain how Spiegelman's Maus is both a novel and not a novel. What other genres are ascribed to Maus by critics and why?