Sonnet
a fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter
ten syllables or five feet (usually unstressed, stressed)
What are the three types of sonnets?
English (Shakespearean), Italian (Petrarchan), and Spenserian
What is the rhyme scheme of an English (Shakespearean) sonnet?
ababcdcdefefgg
What is the rhyme scheme of an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet?
abbaabbacdecde
What are the last two lines of an English (Shakespearean) sonnet called?
concluding couplet
There are three _____ in an English (Shakespearean) sonnet.
quatrains
What is the first part of an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet called?
Octave
What is the transition point in an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet called?
Volta
What is the last part of an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet called?
Sestet
How many lines are in an Octave?
eight
How many lines are in a Sestet?
six
Conceit
Extended metaphor
What is the rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet?
ababbcbccdcdee
