Edmund Spenser and the Spenserian Sonnet

A Sonnet is

• a fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme
• a free verse poem
• a poem divided in eight line ocatve
• I thought the place to get burgers was called Sonic

Who is the father of the English sonnet?

• Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Sir Philip Sidney
• Sir Edmund Spenser

A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

• English Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

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

• iambic pentameter

• iambic tetrameter

• trochee pentameter

• trochee tetrameter

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.

• trochee

• dactyl

• anapest

• iamb

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme.

• Cadence

• Meter

• Iamb

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is a quatrain?

• A poem made up of 4 stanzas

• A group of 4 authors working together

• A stanza made up of 4 lines

• A train made up of 4 cars

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.

• Sestet

• Iamb

• Quatrain

• Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem.

• Octave

• Sestet

• Couplet

• Quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.

• quatrain

• couplet

• octave

• sestet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5