Sonnets - Petrarchan

What makes a quatrain?

• Four lines.

• Three couplets.

• Five lines.

What makes a sonnet?

• Fourteen lines.

• Three Quatrains.

• Two octaves.

What makes a couplet?

• Four lines.

• Two lines.

• Three lines.

What makes a rhyming couplet?

• Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme.

• Two lines with 'ab' rhyming scheme.

• Three lines.

What makes an alternate rhyming couplet?

• Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme.

• Two lines with 'ab' rhyming scheme.

• Three lines.

What makes an English/Shakespearean sonnet?

• Octave and a sestet.

• Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.

• Two quatrains and a sestet.

What makes a Petrarchan sonnet?

• Octave and a sestet.

• Three Quatrains.

• Two octaves.

Octave is a stanza with...

• eight lines

• six lines

• four lines

Sestet is a stanza with...

• eight lines

• six lines

• four lines

Volta in a sonnet is?

• A diverging effect of theme occur in the ninth line.

• Penultimate line of a sonnet.

• Ultimate line of a sonnet.