Poetry - Sonnets

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How many lines are in a quatrain?

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4

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What type of poems are sonnets usually?

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Love poems

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What is a couplet?

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Two lines of a verse that rhyme and have the same meter.

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What is a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable?

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Iambic pentameter.

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The last 'part' of a sonnet contains how many lines?

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2

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What is a sonnet?

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A 14-line poem typically written in iambic pentameter.

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What are the two main types of sonnets?

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Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English).

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What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

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ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

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What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet?

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ABBAABBACDCDCD.

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What is a volta in a sonnet?

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A turn or shift in thought or argument.