English 8 BA notes at start of poetry unit May 10th, 2010 (review sonnet form)

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You have a FINAL Exam in English 8 ... ALL multiple choice may contain a paragraph response.

Sight passages for poetry and short story. You will be tested on Romeo and Juliet.

Final Exam is valued at 10% of the year.

Term 1 = 30%, Term 2 = 30%, [T2 contains midyear], Term 3 =30%

Poetry:


Sonnet

Iambic pentameter is the meter

Elizabethan sonnet (Shakespearean or English)

abab cdcd efef gg

quatrain +quatrain + quatrain + rhyming couplet (heroic)

iambic pentameter


Petrarchan (Italian)

abba abba cdcdcd (or cde cde OR cc dd ee OR any combination of paired Cs Ds or Es)

VOLTA

abba abba *** cde cde

octave *** (= VOLTA)+ sestet

volta = point of shift in a sonnet. It occurs between the

octave and the sestet at the beginning of the 9th line.


Iambic pentameter


Each line of meter can be counted in FEET.


BUT there are many types of feet.

In Iambic Pentameter the feet are called iambs or iambic feet.


u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ = the symbols for a line of iambic pentameter


u = short syllable or unstressed

/ = long syllable or stressed


u/ = an iamb or iambic foot


u / x 5 per line

iambic pentameter







All sonnets have 14 lines

Set Rhyme Scheme

(see above)