NES/ORELA ELA (301) Exam Study Guide.
Verses - answera single line of stressed and unstressed syllables
Stanzas - answergroups of verses arranged rhythmically
Couplet - answertwo-line stanza
Triplet - answerthree-line stanza
Quatrain - answer4-line stanza
Sonnet - answer14 line stanza. can be...
Petrarchan Sonnet - answer✔(Italian) named after Francesco Petrarch
often wrote poems about a woman he saw in church who was married, so he could never have
her (Laura)
2 stanzas: octave and sestet
octave: abbaabba
sestet: cdcdcd or cdecde
octave represents subject of the poem, sestet represents solution or change
Volta - answer✔line nine of a Petrarchan sonnet, shows the turn or change of the poem
Shakespearean sonnet - answer✔Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets
Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
Writes of love and beauty
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