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WHAT IS A SONNET?. OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to define a Shakespearean sonnet. OBJECTIVES: 2. Students will be able to analyze a sonnet. OBJECTIVES: 3. Students will be able to formulate an interpretation of sonnet through analysis. OBJECTIVES:
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WHAT IS A SONNET?
OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to define a Shakespearean sonnet.
OBJECTIVES: 2. Students will be able to analyze a sonnet.
OBJECTIVES: 3. Students will be able to formulate an interpretation of sonnet through analysis.
OBJECTIVES: 4. Students will be able to explain characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet.
OBJECTIVES: 5. Students will be able to identify Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme.
OBJECTIVES: 6. Students will be able to label Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme.
DEFINITION: • A fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme. • Often written in iambic pentameter.
WHAT IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER?
DEFINITION: • A line of poetry with five iambs. • Example of beat: • da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM • * DUM= Stressed
EXAMPLE USING IAMBIC PENTAMETER: Shall I / compare / thee to / a sum / mer’sday?
SHAKESPEREAN SONNET
LOOKS LIKE: • Three four –line quatrains plus a concluding two line couplet. • Rhyme sheme: • ababcdcdefefgg • Each of the three quatrains usually explores a different variation of the main theme
LOOKS LIKE: Rhyming couplet-often dramatic statement that resolves, restates, or redefines the central problem of sonnet.
SEQUENCE: 154 Sonnets Numbered Addressed to a handsome young man urging him to marry and have children who can carry on young man’s talents. Rival poet midway through sonnets.
SEQUENCE: Twenty –five of the later sonnets are addressed to a dark lady.
DEFINITION: • A fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme. • Often written in iambic pentameter.
WHAT SPECIFIC SONNET WILL WE BE GOING OVER IN THIS UNIT?
Answer: SHAKESPEREAN SONNET
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SHAKESPEREAN SONNET?
LOOKS LIKE: • Three four –line quatrains plus a concluding two line couplet. • Rhyme sheme: • ababcdcdefefgg • Each of the three quatrains usually explores a different variation of the main theme
LOOKS LIKE: Rhyming couplet-often dramatic statement that revolves, restates, or redefines the central problem of sonnet.