SHAKESPEAREAN
PETRARCHAN
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
VOCABULARY
HOW MANY...?
100
How many couplets?
1
100
Lines in an octave?
8
100
What does penta mean?
5
100
A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter?
Sonnet
100
Syllables in an iamb?
2
200
How many quatrains?
3
200
Another name?
Italian
200
What do you call 2 syllables, unstressed and stressed?
Iamb
200
A paragraph in poetry?
Stanza
200
Lines in a quatrain?
4
300
Another name for Shakespearean?
English
300
Who is the creator of the sonnet? First and last name.
Francesco Petrarch
300
What is the rhythmical pattern of a poem called?
Meter
300
2 rhyming lines of verse?
Couplet
300
Iambs in one line of verse?
5
400
What meter is the sonnet written?
Iambic Pentameter
400
Lines in a sestet?
6
400
Mark proper iambic pentameter.
Answer on board.
400
Pattern in which the rhymed line endings are arranged?
Rhyme scheme
400
Syllables in one line of verse?
10
500
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
500
Purpose of first 8 lines and purpose of last 6 lines?
Problem and resolution.
500
Mark proper iambic pentameter.
Answer on board.
500
When a syllable is omitted? Over=O'er
Expansion
500
Lines in a sonnet?
14
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