Sonnet Quiz Flashcards by Kyrie Garlic | Brainscape

Q

Common theme

A

Love

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Three types of sonnets

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Petrarchan, Spenserian, Shakespearean

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What is Petrarchan?

A

Italian sonnet with octave and sestet

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Blank verse

A

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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Pause in a line of poetry

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Couplet

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A rhymed pair of lines, usually same length

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Heroic couplet

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Couplet in iambic pentameter

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End-stopped

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Line with natural ending of punctuation

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Enjambment

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Line that doesn’t end with punctuation

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