2ND QTR: Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 1

It is a variation on the Italian sonnet tradition.

Answer 1

Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 2

What are the other names for Shakespearean Sonnet?

Answer 2

Elizabethan sonnets or English sonnets

Question 3

It is a collection of lyrics on various subjects dealing with different moods and conditions.

Answer 3

Sonnets

Question 4

What are the elements of a Shakespearean Sonnet?

Answer 4

→ They are fourteen lines long
→ The fourteen lines are divided into four parts.
→ The first three subgroups have four lines each, which makes them “quatrains,” with the second and fourth lines of each group containing rhyming words.
→ concludes with a two-line subgroup, and these two lines rhyme with each other.

Question 5

It is the rhyming sequence or arrangement of sounds at the end of each line of poetry.

Answer 5

Rhyme Scheme

Question 6

What is the rhyme scheme used in Shakespearean Sonnet?

Answer 6

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Question 7

What is the difference between the Shakespearean sonnet and the Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet?

Answer 7

The way the poem’s fourteen lines are grouped. The Petrarchan sonnet divides its lines between an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines).