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Shakespearean
Petrarchan
Iambic Pentameter
Vocabulary
How Many...?
100
How many couplets in this sonnet?
1
100
How many lines are in the octave?
8
100
What does penta mean?
5
100
What is the name of a 14-line lyric poem?
Sonnet
100
Lines in a sonnet?
14
200
How many quatrains in this sonnet?
3
200
How many lines in the sestet?
6
200
What is the name for an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?
Iamb
200
What is the name for a paragraph in poetry?
Stanza
200
Lines in a quatrain?
4
300
Another name for a Shakespearean sonnet?
English
300
Another name for this sonnet type?
Italian
300
An iamb is also called what?
Foot
300
Name for 5 sets of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Iambic Pentameter
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Iambs in one line of iambic pentameter.
5
400
In what meter is this type of sonnet written?
Iambic Pentameter
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What is the full name of the creator of this sonnet type?
Francesco Petrarch
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The rhythmical pattern of a sonnet.
Meter
400
2 rhyming lines.
Couplet
400
Syllables in one line of iambic pentameter.
10
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
500
What is the purpose f the first 8 lines? The last 6 lines?
Problem and Resolution
500
What is the rhythmical pattern of a sonnet called?
Meter
500
The pattern in which rhymed line endings are arranged.
Rhyme Scheme
500
Syllables in one iamb?
2