English 10 HN Sonnets Quiz

Sonnets consist of __ lines

14

Shakesperean Rhyme Scheme

ABAB

CDCD

EFEF

GG

Spenserian Rhyme Scheme

ABAB

BCBC

CDCD

EE

Petrarchan

ABBA

ABBA

CDECDE (varies)

What 2 rhyme schemes must sonnets follow?

English or Italian

Why type of rhyme schemes are Shakesperean and Spenserian?

English

What type of rhyme scheme is Petrarchan?

Italian

Who invented the Spenserian Sonnet

Edward Spenser

Spenserian Sonnet

complicates the Shakespearean one by linking the rhyme scheme between the quatrains:

ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

Spenser usually entered a what by adding “but,” “yet,” or “but yet.”

volta

Spenser usually entered a volta by adding…?

“but,” “yet,” or “but yet.”

Quatrain

A stanza of four lines

Octave

An eight line stanza

Iamb

A two-syllable unit where the first syllable is unaccented and the second is accented.

Examples of an Iamb

today, forget, garage

Pentameter

Measure of five

Iambic Pentameter

five iambs to each line

Example of an Iambic Pentameter

“Today I will forget to weep for you”

Sestet

The second (6-line) section of an Italian Sonnet.

Volta

The shift in thought--from question to answer, problem to solution--that occurs at the beginning of the sestet. Sometimes occurs in the English sonnet between the twelfth and thirteenth lines.

English (or Shakespearean) Sonnets are divided into _____ quatrains and ___ couplet

three, one

Each quatrain in an English or Shakesperean Sonnet…

has a rhyme scheme of its own--usually alternating lines rhyme

The lines of a couplet in an English or Shakesperean sonnet _____

rhyme

In an English or Shakesperean Sonnet, each quatrain develops a ________ idea, but is _______ related to the ideas previously presented.

specific, closely

In an English or Shakespearean Sonnet the volta usually falls at the…

couplet

An Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet is divided into an ______ and a ______

octave, sestet

Octave in an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet Rhyme Scheme

ABBAABBA

Sestet in an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet Rhyme Scheme

CDECDE (most common), CDEDED, CDEDCE

The Octave in an Italian or Petrachan Sonnet does one of the following:

• Presents a narrative

• States a preposition

• Raises a question

The Sestet in an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet does on of these:

• Drives home the narrative by making an abstract comment

• Applies the preposition

• Solves the problem