English Sonnets Flashcards by Maggie Schmidt

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English sonnet rhyme scheme

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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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English sonnet turn/volta

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right before couplet

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English sonnet meter

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iambic pentameter; 10 per line, stressed and unstressed

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English and Italian sonnet similarities

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14 lines, rhymes, iambic pentameter

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Italian sonnet rhyme scheme (2)

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ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
ABBA ABBA CDECDE

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Italian sonnet turn/volta

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between 8+9 line

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Italian sonnet meter

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iambic pentameter

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stanza

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like a verse of poetry

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octave

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set of eight lines

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sestet

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last six lines of sonnet

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quatrain

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stanza of four rhymes, usually with alternating rhymes

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couplet

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2 lines, usually rhyme

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volta

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change in tone

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meter

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line structure

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iamb

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unstressed syllable-stressed syllable

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trochee

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stressed syllable-unstressed syllable

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anapest

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unstressed-unstressed-stressed

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dactyl

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stressed-unstressed-unstressed

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iambic pentameter

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structure including meter

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satire

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humor to criticize society

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verbal irony

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say one thing, mean another

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dramatic irony

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reader knows, characters don’t

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situational irony

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opposite of expected happens