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What does the word sonnet mean?
"Little song" or "little sound" (Italien)
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How many lines are in a sonnet?
14
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Famous Italien sonnet writer?
Petrarch
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What was imitated from Petrarch's writing?
conventions
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What things did Petrarch include in his sonnets?
- To Laura
- Idealized (courtly) love
- Conventions
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Who wrote Tottel's Miscellany?
Wyatt and Surrey
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Who introduced the sonnet to the English?
Wyatt and Surrey
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Who wrote about Stella?
Phillip Sidney
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Sonnet conventions
- Love
- Themes
- Descriptions, despciptive metaphors, and similies
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Love convention
- One-sided (courtly)
- Beloved can be cruel to the lover.
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Conventions: themes
- Immortalization of the beloved
- Love is like a hunt
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Despcriptions, metaphors, and similies
- Physical similies
- Shakespear's "unconventional" sonnet- didn't use the conventions.
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3 types of sonnets
- English (Shaspearean)
- Italian (Petrarchan)
- Spenserian
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Snglish sonnet
- abab cdcd efef gg
- 3 quatrains & a couplet
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Italien sonnet
- Octave: abba abba
- seset: cddc ee
- volta
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Volta
change or transition
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Spenserian sonnet
- abab bcbc cdcd ee
- 3 quatrains & a couplet, with interlocking rhyme.
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