Unleash Your Potential - Namagunga Girls Coding Club
Sonnet Vocabulary
1.
2. a
verse form of 14 lines in iambic
pentameter with rhymes arranged
according to a fixed scheme
3. use
of language to create mental images
and sensory impressions; can be used for
emotional effect and to intensify the impact
on the reader
4. figurative
language that makes
comparisons in unexpected ways with the
purpose of showing similarities in process
or structure
5. language
not intended to be taken literally
but layered with meaning through the use
of imagery, metaphors, and other literary
devices
6. a
commonly used metric line where each
line of a poem is made up of 10 syllables;
the syllables are counted in pairs as
iambs/feet and follow the pattern
unstressed/stressed
7. a
sonnet where the first 12 lines are
divided into 3 quatrains (sets of 4 lines)
which set up a theme or problem that is
resolved in the last 2 lines which are a
rhyming couplet
8. the
pattern of rhyming lines; for
Shakespearean sonnets it is ABAB CDCD
EFEF GG