Sonnets characteristics and definitions reg

1. Sonnets
Ms. Marshall-Krauss
8th Grade English

2. Sonnets
December 1, 2011
•Warm up: What different types of
poems do you know? What makes
each one different?
•Today’s objective is to identify the
special characteristics of a sonnet
and scan poetry for meter.
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3. Poetic Devices
•Length
–14 lines
•Rhyme Scheme
–Shakespearean: ababcdcdefefgg
–Petrarchan: abbaabbacdecde

4. Poetic Devices
•Topic
–Love, lost love, beauty, etc
•Meter
–Iambic Pentameter

5. What is meter?
•Meter: The recurrence of a pattern of
stressed and unstressed syllables.
•Foot: A basic unit of meter including two
or three syllables. The feet are what
repeat.
•Iamb: A specific type of foot with 1
unstressed followed by1 stressed syllable
•Iambic Pentameter: A meter where there
are five iambs in each line.

6. Iam piratewitha
awoodenleg.

7. “Two households, both
alike in dignity”
“But soft! What light from
yonder window breaks?”

8. Write Your Own
•With your partner, write a
conversation in iambic pentameter.
It should be four lines (each person
speaks twice).
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