Sonnet Test Review

1. A quatrain has how many lines? 4 2. A sestet has how many lines? 6 3. A octave has how many lines? 8 4. A pair of rhyming lines is called a couplet. 5. What does the word “sonnet” mean? “Little sound/song”

Use the following outlines to label the parts of each sonnet:

 Structure (quatrains, sestets, octaves, turns)  Rhyme Scheme  Volta  Location of problem  Location of solution

6. Petrarchan: 1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A Octave/ problem 5. A 6. B 7. B 8. A Volta 9. C 10. D 11. E Sestet/ solution 12. C 13. D 14. E

7. Shakespeare: 1. A Quatrain 1 2. B 3. A 4. B Main Idea 1 5. C Quatrain 2 6. D 7. C 8. D Volta (possible) 9. E Quatrain 3/ Idea 2 10. F 11. E 12. F Volta (possible) 13. G Couplet/ conclusion 14. G

8. What is the turn called? Volta

9. Where is the problem found in a Petrarchan sonnet? Octave

10. Where is the solution found in a Petrarchan sonnet? Sestet

11. What is Iambic Pentameter? 5 sets of two syllables in an unstressed/stressed pattern

12: Using Shakespearean Sonnet 130, identify the following:

 Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG  Location of the Volta: Line 13  Why is this a blazon? It catalogues the features of a woman.  Lit devices present: Alliteration, personification, imagery, metaphor

13. In Petrarchan sonnets, what is located in the octave? Problem

14. In Petrarchan sonnets, what is located in the sestet? Solution

15. The Petrarchan sonnet is also known as the Italian sonnet.

16. The Shakespearean sonnet is also known as the English sonnet

17. How many lines does a sonnet have? 14

18. Definition of “volta” Shift or turn in a sonnet; signal words—“but,” “yet,” “and yet,” “or”

19. Common themes of sonnets: Love, beauty, morality, politics

20. Using Petrarch Sonnet 28, identify the following:

 Rhyme scheme: ABBA ABBA CDE CDE  Turn location: Line 9  Lit device: Personification, alliteration  Theme: Love- You are never alone with love.

21. Use Sonnet 97 to identity the following:

1 How like a winter hath my absence been A 2 From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! B Q1 3 What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! A 4 What old December's bareness every where! B 5 And yet this time remov'd was summer's time, C 6 The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, D Q2 7 Bearing the wanton burden of the prime, C 8 Like widow'd wombs after their lord's decease: D 9 Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me E volta

10 But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; F Q1 11 For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, E 12 And, thou away, the very birds are mute; F 13 Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer G couplet 14 That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. G

 Type of sonnet? Shakespearean  Identify the following:  Structure  Volta  Rhyme Scheme  Summary: The speaker’s love has left him during the summer. He is upset and depressed, so much so that it feels like winter to him. Even the birds will not sing for him.

 Problem: The speaker is alone and sad. He feels like it’s winter instead of summer.  Resolution: The speaker has given himself over to sadness. He is mourning and depressed. Nothing is important to him anymore.

 Possible theme: Love- Lost love can rob us of joy.