24-25 Sonnet Study: Intro / Sidney / Spenser

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What is iambic pentameter?

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A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.

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What is the narrator of a poem called?

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Speaker

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Vivid language that appeals to the five senses.

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What is an octave in a sonnet?

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The first eight lines of an Italian sonnet, usually posing a question.

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What is an apostrophe in literature?

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A literary device in which an absent person, place, or abstraction is addressed as though it were alive and present.

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What is a sestet in a sonnet?

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The last six lines of an Italian sonnet that answers the question posed in the octave.

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What is a couplet in poetry?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

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What is a quatrain?

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A stanza of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.

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What is personification?

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A literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human things.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.