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Sonnet

  • Game Code: 2203943
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    What you need to know about sonnets
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  • a poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern
    sonnet
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  • a stanza of four lines
    quatrain
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  • an eight-line stanza in an Italian/Petrarhan sonnet
    octave
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  • the last six lines of an Italian/Petrarhan sonnet
    sestet
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  • repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
    repetition
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  • the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
    enjambment
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  • address to an absent or imaginary person
    apostrophe
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  • the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
    symbolism
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  • comparing two things using like or as
    simile
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  • comparison not using like or as
    metaphor
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  • the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
    personification
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  • exaggeration
    hyperbole
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  • the use of words that imitate sounds
    onomatopoeia
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  • description that appeals to the senses
    iamgery
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  • a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
    allusion
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  • the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem
    Volta
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