Poetry - Sonnets

Front

What is a couplet?

Back

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

Front

How many lines are in a quatrain?

Back

4.

Front

What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?

Back

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

Front

What is a sonnet?

Back

A poem of 14 lines which can have different rhyme schemes.

Front

What is meter in poetry?

Back

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme.

Front

What is an iamb?

Back

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Front

What is a Petrarchan Sonnet?

Back

A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet, typically with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdcdcd.

Front

What is a stanza?

Back

A grouped set of lines within a poem, often sharing a common rhyme scheme.

Front

What is rhyme scheme?

Back

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem.

Front

What is a sestet?

Back

A stanza or poem of six lines.