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Sonnet 116 Flashcards

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Form?

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Sonnet, written in iambic pentameter

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Symbolism & Imagery?

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Alliteration - ‘love is not love….’
Personification - ‘tempests’, ‘wandering bark’
Time/Age/Death
Navigation - ‘ever-fixed mark’

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Structure?

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Quatrain

Volta - The turn or change in a sonnet, whether the poets observations of love are not true

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GCSE Literature - Poetry (8 decks)

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