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10 Cards in this Set
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What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
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ABABCDCDEFEFGG
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How many quatrains does a Shakespearean sonnet have?
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3
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What are the four tools that you should use to understand a sonnet?
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1. look up any words that you don't know
2. identify the pronouns 3. figure out literal meaning 4. figure out figurative meaning |
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How many rhyming couplets does a Shakespearean sonnet have?
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1
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What is the rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet?
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ABABBCBCCDCDEE
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What is the rhyme scheme of the octave of in a Petrarchan sonnet?
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ABBAABBA
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What is the only difference between the Shakespearean and the Spenserian sonnet forms?
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The rhyme scheme
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Write a line of iambic pentameter about winter. Identify the feet (and stress) with the appropriate marks.
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In win / ter I / love to / sled down/ a hill.
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When does the shift in subject matter occur in each sonnet form? What line number and part of sonnet (section of lines)?
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same for all:
third quatrain and 9th line |
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What is a volta and what sonnet form is it related to.
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The volta is found in a Petrarchan sonnet when there is a shift in subject matter.
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