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What you need to know about sonnets

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syllables in a line of a Shakespearean sonnet

10

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five feet are called

pentameter

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an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

iamb

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organ that iamb mimics in the human body

heart

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rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet

ABBAABBA CDCDCD or CDECDE

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the two lines end a Shakespearean sonnet

couplet

15

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

parallelism

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number of lines in a Shakespearean sonnet

14

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one "beat" of a word or phrase

syllable

15

a sound such by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', ' o', and 'u', which you pronounce with your mouth open, allowing the air to flow through it

vowel

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a sound such as ' p', ' f', 'n', or ' t' which you pronounce by stopping the air flowing freely through your mouth

consonant

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repetition of initial consonant sounds

alliteration

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repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

assonance

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the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a word, not just at the beginning

consonance

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the pattern of rhyme in a poem

rhyme scheme

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