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WHAT IS A SONNET?

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?

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  1. WHAT IS A SONNET?

  2. OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to define a Shakespearean sonnet.

  3. OBJECTIVES: 2. Students will be able to analyze a sonnet.

  4. OBJECTIVES: 3. Students will be able to formulate an interpretation of sonnet through analysis.

  5. OBJECTIVES: 4. Students will be able to explain characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet.

  6. OBJECTIVES: 5. Students will be able to identify Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme.

  7. OBJECTIVES: 6. Students will be able to label Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme.

  8. DEFINITION: • A fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme. • Often written in iambic pentameter.

  9. WHAT IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER?

  10. DEFINITION: • A line of poetry with five iambs. • Example of beat: • da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM • * DUM= Stressed

  11. EXAMPLE USING IAMBIC PENTAMETER: Shall I / compare / thee to / a sum / mer’sday?

  12. TYPE OF SONNET FOCUSING ON FOR UNIT

  13. SHAKESPEREAN SONNET

  14. 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

  15. LOOKS LIKE: Rhyming couplet-often dramatic statement that resolves, restates, or redefines the central problem of sonnet.

  16. 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.

  17. SEQUENCE: Twenty –five of the later sonnets are addressed to a dark lady.

  18. Review

  19. What is a sonnet?

  20. DEFINITION: • A fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme. • Often written in iambic pentameter.

  21. WHAT SPECIFIC SONNET WILL WE BE GOING OVER IN THIS UNIT?

  22. Answer: SHAKESPEREAN SONNET

  23. WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SHAKESPEREAN SONNET?

  24. 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

  25. LOOKS LIKE: Rhyming couplet-often dramatic statement that revolves, restates, or redefines the central problem of sonnet.

  26. Any questions?

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