Sonnet Type
This type of sonnet has an ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme.
What is Shakespearean?
What question does the shepherd repeatedly ask his love in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"?
What is "live with me and be my love"?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
All sonnets consist of this many lines.
What is 14?
A grouping of eight lines of poetry.
This poet wrote a sonnet about immortalizing his wife's name through his poetry.
Who is Spenser?
What is Spenserian?
What are quatrains?
Figurative language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
All sonnets are written in this meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
A grouping of six lines of poetry.
What is a sestet?
This poet wrote a sonnet inviting Sleep to come visit him.
Who is Sidney?
This type of sonnet has an abbaabbacdecde rhyme scheme.
What is Petrarchan?
What basic argument does the nymph use throughout "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"?
What is that young love grows old/cold?
Repetition of interior vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
All sonnets are about this subject.
What is love?
The PATTERN of syllables in a SINGLE FOOT of iambic pentameter.
What is unstressed stressed?
This poet wrote a sonnet with frank/honest depictions of his love's appearance.
Who is Shakespeare?
This is the only type of sonnet we studied that does not have a rhyming couplet at the end.
What is Petrarchan?
Both pastoral poems we read have grouped lines that consist of two of these each.
What is are rhyming couplets?
What is personification?
There are this many syllables in each line of a sonnet.
What is 10?
The "pent" in pentameter stands for this number.
What is five?
This poet wrote a sonnet that serves as an extended metaphor for an experience he had watching two men pursue a helpless woman.
Who is Petrarch?
Both Shakepearean and Spenserian sonnets have three of these line groupings.
What are quatrains?
A kirtle, mentioned in both poems, is what?
What is a skirt or dress?
What poetic device is utilized at the end of the following lines?
"Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove."
What is slant/forced/approximate/eye rhyme?
Each sonnet must have this, which means "a dramatic shift or change."
What is turn or volta?
The poet who first wrote and popularized the sonnet as a form.
Who is Petrarch?
This poet wrote a sonnet that uses nautical metaphors and personification of Time to describe the nature of true love.
Who is Shakespeare?