Shakespearean Sonnet
Petrarchan Sonnet
Poetic Elements
Vocabulary
Who Wrote it
100
How many couplets are in the sonnet?
one
100
How many lines are in an octave?
8
100

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of word. For example, "With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim” - Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty."

Alliteration

100

A group of lines in a poem is known as what?

Stanza

100

The poet who wrote "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud"

William Wordsworth

200
How many quatrains are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
three
200
How many lines are in a sestet?
six
200

Giving human-like traits to inanimate objects

Personification

200

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG how many stanzas does this sonnet have?

four

200

Name one of the Japanese haiku poets we read

Basho or Yosa Buson. 

300
What is another name for the Shakespearean sonnet?
English Sonnet
300
What is another name for a Petrarchan sonnet?
Italian Sonnet
300

The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.

For example, "Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –            When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;" Gerard Manley Hopkins "Spring"        

Assonance
300

Writing that is not poetry is _____

Prose

300

"The Apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough."

Ezra Pound

400
In what meter is a Shakespearean sonnet written?
Iambic Pentameter
400
What is the turn?
A shift in tone and/or subject that occurs after the octave and at the beginning of the sestet
400

A poem that tells a story is a ____ poem

Narrative Poem
400

A three line poem that has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, and 5 in the last line. These poems often combine observations with nature with an abstraction.

Haiku

400

"I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.

A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home. 

I have wasted my life"

James Wright

500
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
500
What is introduced in the first 8 lines of the sonnet? What about the last 6 lines?
Problem and Resolution
500

A description using one or more of the five senses.

Imagery

500

The turn or shift near the end of a poem. Most commonly known in the sonnet. 

Volta

500

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

Elizabeth Barret Browning

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