Shakespearean Sonnet

What is a sonnet?

• a theme
• a love poem
• an adventure
• a Shakespearean tragedy

What is a meter? 

• a poem's rhyme scheme
• a poem's meter
• a poem's rhythm
• a poem's meteoric

What is the purpose of stressed syllables?

• to create rhythm
• to divide
• to achieve purpose of method
• to orchestrate technique

Rhythm gives us ...

• 10 syllables

• musicality.

• blank verse

• repetition.

Penta means ...

• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Iambic pentameter is a ...

• pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.
• pattern of stressed syllables.
• pattern of unstressed  syllables.
• a pattern of 5 syllables

A Sonnet is  __________ of Iambic Pentameter with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme.

• 14 lines
• 15 lines
• 9 lines
• 10 lines

"Shall I compare thee to a _________?"

• winter's moon
• summer's day
• winter's snow
• buzzard's snack

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4