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Poetry
A Guide to the Sonnet
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English
12th Grade
02/07/2013

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Sonnet
Definition
A fourteen-line lyric poem.
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Lyric
Definition
A poem that expresses the personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker.
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Persona
Definition
The speaker in a poem (a word meaning "mask").
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Lyricism
Definition
The emotional or song-like quality, the lyrical property, to lyric poetry.
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
What sonnets are written in. Contain a carefully followed rhyme scheme.
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Rhyme Scheme
Definition
The pattern in which they rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem. This may be expressed as a sequence of recurrences in which each line ending on the same rhyme is given the same alphabetic symbol.
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Rhyming Couplets
Definition
(aabbcc, ect.)
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Common Quatrain
Definition
(abab, abcb, abba).
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Iambic
Definition
A type of metric foot. Refers to a foot of poetry that begins with an unstressed stable followed by a stresses one.
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Foot
Definition
The basic unit of measuring the accentual-syllabic meter at work in a poem.
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Pentameter
Definition
A metrical verse line having five main stresses, traditionally described as a line of five 'feet.'
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Rhyme Royal
Definition
Seven lines of iambic pentameter.
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Prosody
Definition
The rhyme, stress, and intonation of speech.
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All Sonnets are Arguments
Definition
Their form serves to advance the poet/persona's line of reasoning (with raying degrees of ethos, pathos, and logos) in order to persuade the reader and/or person addressed in the poem.
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Italian Sonnet
Petrarchan Sonnet
Definition
Consists of fourteen lines broken into an octave and a sestet.
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Octave
Definition
stanza consisting of eight lines. Usually rhymes abbaabbaa.
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Sestet
Definition
Stanza consisting of six lines. Usually rhymes cdecde or cdcdcd.
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English Sonnet
Elizabethan Sonnet
Shakespearean Sonnet
Definition
Consists of three quatrains and a couplet.
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Volta
Turn
Definition
Signaled by a transition word like "but" or "yet" at the beginning of the sestet, which means that the sestet must in some way release the tension built up in the octave.
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Quatrain
Definition
Groups of four lines.
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
A pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines at the end of an english sonnet.
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Explication
Definition
The line by line analysis of a poem.
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Scansion
Definition
The act of noting/marking the stressed & unstressed beats in a poetic line.
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