Key Vocabulary: Sonnets

What emotion are sonnets typically exploring?

How many lines does a sonnet have?

What is poetic meter?

• The layout of the poem on the page

• Something only associated with sonnets

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• A literary term to describe the length of a poem

What is the typical rhyme scheme for the majority of a sonnet?

What is a "rhyming couplet"?

• A pair of lines which rhyme

• When the first and last line of the poem rhyme

• The ABAB rhyme scheme

What is "Iambic Pentameter"

• A line of 10 syllables where the first syllable is stressed

• A line of 10 syllables where the second syllable is stressed

• A line of 5 syllables where the second syllable is stressed

Which poetic meter does this image show us?

• A dactyl

• A trochee

• Iambic Pentameter

How does this image relate to iambic pentameter?

• Shakespeare loved to use it

• Sonnets are about love

• The meter can mimic the sound of a heartbeat

• Reading iambic pentameter can increate your heartrate

What is a "volta" in a sonnet?

• A moment where the speaker addresses the reader

• A moment where the tone, rhyme scheme or attitude of the poem change.

• A moment where the meter of the poem is broken

Spell the name of this famous Sonnet writer:

S__________