Sonnet Notes

Question 1

why sonnets are written: they pose a … and provide …

Answer 1

problem; resolution

Question 2

sonneta: … in Italian

Answer 2

little song

Question 3

original sonnet

Answer 3

petrarchan/ Italian

Question 4

Petrarchan sonnet components:
the first 8 lines- …., which poses ….
last six lines- …, which poses ….
the turn in the petrarchan sonnet occurs at line ..

Answer 4

octave; the problem/question; sestet; resolution/answer; 9

Question 5

turn is the shift from … to …

Answer 5

question; answer

Question 6

second form of sonnet

Answer 6

spenserean sonnet

Question 7

Spenserean sonnet adds a …., audience is …. for the majority of the poem

Answer 7

rhyme; left in doubt

Question 8

Spenserean sonnet is separated into … for the first … lines, there are … of these sections. These sections collectively pose the ….. The last .. lines, called the …, pose the …. and tend to be … The turn occurs at line …

Answer 8

quatrains; 12; 3; problem/question; 2; couplet; resolution/answer; triumphant; 13

Question 9

Shakesperean/English sonnet has more … than any other sonnet. Structure:
Lines 1-4 are … and pose …
Lines 5-8 are … and pose …
Lines 9-12 are … and pose … as well as ….
The last lines are the … and pose the ….

Answer 9

rhymes; quatrain 1; problem/question 1; quatrain 2; problem/question 2; quatrain 3; problem/question 3; partial resolution; couplet; final resolution

Question 10

in a Shakespearean sonnet, the turn occurs at line

Answer 10

9

Question 11

all sonnets have … lines

Answer 11

14

Question 12

all of shakespeare’s sonnets written as

Answer 12

love poems

Question 13

Shakespeare was frequently grateful for the idea of

Answer 13

a rival

Question 14

Shakespeare wrote … sonnets

Answer 14

154

Question 15

Shakespeare’s sonnets were written in …, groups of which were devoted to …

Answer 15

order; certain characters

Question 16

group 1 of Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated to …. and leads scholars to believe that Shakespeare may have been …

Answer 16

a young man; bisexual

Question 17

group 2 of Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated to ….

Answer 17

rival poet

Question 18

the rival poet of shakespeare’s sonnets may be …., who was the best … of Shakespeare’s time and was a … for …., at the height of his career he was found … with a ….

Answer 18

Christopher Marlowe; playwright; spy; Queen Elizabeth; dead; knife in his eye

Question 19

When people would audition for SHakespeare’s plays, they would use …, which would anger Shakespeare. Some believe Shakespeare …

Answer 19

Marlowe’s lines; killed Marlowe

Question 20

Group 3 of Shakespeare’s sonnets dedicated to …. who was either … or …, and was Shakespeare’s …

Answer 20

dark-complexioned; Moroccan; Ethiopian; real mistress

Question 21

sonnets are usually

Answer 21

iambic (pantameter)

Question 22

end rhyme: rhyme at the … of a line

Answer 22

end

Question 23

rhyme within a line of poetry:

Answer 23

internal rhyme

Question 24

rhyme words that do not sound quite the same, called:

Answer 24

near rhyme

Question 25

meter: regular pattern of … that counts the … of a line, referring to the pattern of … or … …, combinations of which we call …

Answer 25

rhythm; measure; stressed; unstressed; syllables; feet

Question 26

iambic pantameter: … iambic …

iambic tetrameter: … iambic …

Answer 26

five; feet; four; feet

Question 27

blank verse

Answer 27

unrhymed iambic pantameter

Question 28

… of poetry establish the connection between structure and meaning

Answer 28

forms

Question 29

the most common form of poetry is the

Answer 29

sonnet

Question 30

contemplative poem for one who has died: ….
short poem of personal thoughts/feelings of first-person speaker: …
poetry to meditate on or address a single object/condition: …
poetry with five tercets (3-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain, where the first line of tercet 1 is repeated at the end of tercet 2 and 4 (these repeated lines are called refrain lines): ….

Answer 30

elegy; lyric; ode; villanelle

Question 31

run-on line, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line to complete it’s meaning:

Answer 31

enjambment

Question 32

a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated:

Answer 32

caesura

Question 33

musical quality of poetry

Answer 33

sound

Question 34

sound includes

Answer 34

rhyme, enjambment, caesura

Question 35

sound can be created by rhythm and … (related to the … and … of the …)

Answer 35

cadence; rise; fall; voice

Question 36

the speaker for all shakespeare’s sonnets are

Answer 36

male

Question 37

all shakespearean sonnets are of this meter:

Answer 37

iambic pentameter