Shakespearean Sonnets Flashcards
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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A poem expressive of thought, emotion, or idea (love poem)
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Sonnet
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A lyric poem consisting of 14 lines
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Shakespearean Sonnet consists of
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Three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet
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Quatrain
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Four line stanzas in a Shake. Sonnet
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Couplet
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Two rhyming lines in a Shake. Sonnet
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Rhyme scheme
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Abab cdcd efef gg
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Meter
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It’s rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables organized into patterns called feet
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Iambic Pentameter
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Type of meter Shakespeare used
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Iamb
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A foot consisting of two syllables one stressed and one unstressed
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Stressed
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/
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Unstressed
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U
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Pentameter
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Five feet, so each line contains five iambs
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Number of syllables in a line
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10
14
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Prose
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Everyday speech
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Free Verse
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Verse that is free from rhythm and rhyme
