Sonnet Notes Flashcards
why sonnets are written: they pose a … and provide …
problem; resolution
sonneta: … in Italian
little song
original sonnet
petrarchan/ Italian
Petrarchan sonnet components:
the first 8 lines- …., which poses ….
last six lines- …, which poses ….
the turn in the petrarchan sonnet occurs at line ..
octave; the problem/question; sestet; resolution/answer; 9
turn is the shift from … to …
question; answer
second form of sonnet
spenserean sonnet
Spenserean sonnet adds a …., audience is …. for the majority of the poem
rhyme; left in doubt
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 …
quatrains; 12; 3; problem/question; 2; couplet; resolution/answer; triumphant; 13
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 ….
rhymes; quatrain 1; problem/question 1; quatrain 2; problem/question 2; quatrain 3; problem/question 3; partial resolution; couplet; final resolution
in a Shakespearean sonnet, the turn occurs at line
9
all sonnets have … lines
14
all of shakespeare’s sonnets written as
love poems
Shakespeare was frequently grateful for the idea of
a rival
Shakespeare wrote … sonnets
154
Shakespeare’s sonnets were written in …, groups of which were devoted to …
order; certain characters
group 1 of Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated to …. and leads scholars to believe that Shakespeare may have been …
a young man; bisexual
group 2 of Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated to ….
rival poet
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 ….
Christopher Marlowe; playwright; spy; Queen Elizabeth; dead; knife in his eye
When people would audition for SHakespeare’s plays, they would use …, which would anger Shakespeare. Some believe Shakespeare …
Marlowe’s lines; killed Marlowe
Group 3 of Shakespeare’s sonnets dedicated to …. who was either … or …, and was Shakespeare’s …
dark-complexioned; Moroccan; Ethiopian; real mistress
sonnets are usually
iambic (pantameter)
end rhyme: rhyme at the … of a line
end
rhyme within a line of poetry:
internal rhyme
rhyme words that do not sound quite the same, called:
near rhyme
meter: regular pattern of … that counts the … of a line, referring to the pattern of … or … …, combinations of which we call …
rhythm; measure; stressed; unstressed; syllables; feet
iambic pantameter: … iambic …
iambic tetrameter: … iambic …
five; feet; four; feet
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pantameter
… of poetry establish the connection between structure and meaning
forms
the most common form of poetry is the
sonnet
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): ….
elegy; lyric; ode; villanelle
run-on line, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line to complete it’s meaning:
enjambment
a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated:
caesura
musical quality of poetry
sound
sound includes
rhyme, enjambment, caesura
sound can be created by rhythm and … (related to the … and … of the …)
cadence; rise; fall; voice
the speaker for all shakespeare’s sonnets are
male
all shakespearean sonnets are of this meter:
iambic pentameter
