Sonnet Flashcard

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What is a caesura?

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A stop or an interruption in the middle of a line.

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Who is known as the 'father' of European sonnets?

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Petrarch

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What is an iamb?

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A metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Front

True or False: An example of an iamb is 'good-BYE'.

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True

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Which poet ends his sonnets with a rhyming couplet?

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Shakespeare

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What is the rhyme pattern of a Petrarchan sonnet?

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ABBA ABBA CDCD CD.

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What is a Shakespearean sonnet's rhyme scheme?

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ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

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What is the main theme of most sonnets?

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Love and beauty.

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What is the typical length of a sonnet?

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14 lines.

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What is the difference between a Petrarchan and a Shakespearean sonnet?

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Petrarchan sonnets have an octave and a sestet; Shakespearean sonnets have three quatrains and a couplet.