Shakespearean Sonnets

What is the meter of a poem?

• a rhythm created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• a pattern of rhyme

• the number of lines in the poem

• the final couplet of the poem

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A couplet is

• a 2 line stanza of a poem

• a 4 line stanza of a poem

• a 5 line stanza of a poem

• an 8 line stanza of a poem

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called the

• couplet

• quatrain

• iambic pentameter

• volta

Pentameter is ...

• another name for star-crossed lovers because "penta" is a star

• 5 repetitions of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme

• a 14 line poem

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Iambic is a pattern of...

• one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

• one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable followed by another unstressed syllable

• one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

• two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

Why does every Shakespearean sonnet have exactly 14 lines?

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.W.9-10.2

What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• ABAB CDCD EFGG

• ABAB BABA CDCD DCDC

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What does the volta of a sonnet do?

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Shakespeare titled his sonnets using

• nature imagery

• numbers

• Italian phrases

• metaphors

Which of the following is an example of iambic pentameter?

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