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1
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why sonnets are written: they pose a … and provide …

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problem; resolution

2
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sonneta: … in Italian

A

little song

3
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original sonnet

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petrarchan/ Italian

4
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Petrarchan sonnet components:
the first 8 lines- …., which poses ….
last six lines- …, which poses ….
the turn in the petrarchan sonnet occurs at line ..

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

5
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turn is the shift from … to …

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question; answer

6
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second form of sonnet

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spenserean sonnet

7
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Spenserean sonnet adds a …., audience is …. for the majority of the poem

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rhyme; left in doubt

8
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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 …

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

9
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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 ….

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

10
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in a Shakespearean sonnet, the turn occurs at line

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9

11
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all sonnets have … lines

A

14

12
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all of shakespeare’s sonnets written as

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love poems

13
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Shakespeare was frequently grateful for the idea of

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a rival

14
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Shakespeare wrote … sonnets

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154

15
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Shakespeare’s sonnets were written in …, groups of which were devoted to …

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order; certain characters

16
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group 1 of Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated to …. and leads scholars to believe that Shakespeare may have been …

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a young man; bisexual

17
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group 2 of Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated to ….

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rival poet

18
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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 ….

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

19
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When people would audition for SHakespeare’s plays, they would use …, which would anger Shakespeare. Some believe Shakespeare …

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Marlowe’s lines; killed Marlowe

20
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Group 3 of Shakespeare’s sonnets dedicated to …. who was either … or …, and was Shakespeare’s …

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dark-complexioned; Moroccan; Ethiopian; real mistress

21
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sonnets are usually

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iambic (pantameter)

22
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end rhyme: rhyme at the … of a line

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end

23
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rhyme within a line of poetry:

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internal rhyme

24
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rhyme words that do not sound quite the same, called:

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near rhyme

25
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meter: regular pattern of … that counts the … of a line, referring to the pattern of … or … …, combinations of which we call …

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rhythm; measure; stressed; unstressed; syllables; feet

26
Q

iambic pantameter: … iambic …

iambic tetrameter: … iambic …

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five; feet; four; feet

27
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blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pantameter

28
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… of poetry establish the connection between structure and meaning

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forms

29
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the most common form of poetry is the

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sonnet

30
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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): ….

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elegy; lyric; ode; villanelle

31
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run-on line, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line to complete it’s meaning:

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enjambment

32
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a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated:

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caesura

33
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musical quality of poetry

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sound

34
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sound includes

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rhyme, enjambment, caesura

35
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sound can be created by rhythm and … (related to the … and … of the …)

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cadence; rise; fall; voice

36
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the speaker for all shakespeare’s sonnets are

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male

37
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all shakespearean sonnets are of this meter:

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iambic pentameter