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English Sonnet

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  • AKA Shakespearean sonnet

- Sonnet divided into three four-line units or quatrains followed by a concluding two-line unit or couplet

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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  • AKA Italian sonnet
  • Divided into two parts: 8th line octave with rhyme scheme abbaabba and a six-line sestet with rhyme scheme ceded or cdcdcd
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Volta

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  • Turn in thought (common to Italian sonnets)

- Appears after 8th line

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Sestet

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-A poem or stanza of six lines

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Octave

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  • AKA octet

- First eight lines of Petrarchan sonnet

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Conceit

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Fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes connection between two dissimilar things

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Quatrain

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-Stanza consisting of four lines which may follow variety of rhyme schemes

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Apostrophe

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-Figure of speech in which a person not present or personified abstraction is addressed

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Oxymoron

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  • Greek for “pointedly foolish”

- Figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms which express startling paradox

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Scansion

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Analysis of metrical patterns of verse