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Sonnets

Sonnets. Literary Devices: 1/3. Connotation : associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. --emotional attachment Denotation : Dictionary definition of a word. Connotation/Denotation. Which word has a more positive connotation?

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets

  2. Literary Devices: 1/3 • Connotation: associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. • --emotional attachment • Denotation: Dictionary definition of a word

  3. Connotation/Denotation • Which word has a more positive connotation? Ted’s Restaurant is furnished with (old, antique) furniture. Mike’s (shabby, vintage) bike is black and gold. A group of (loud, enthusiastic) students walk to school every day. My parents argue (loudly, passionately) about politics over dinner.

  4. Literary Devices • Meter: The recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. • Onomatopoeia: a word that imitates the source of the sound it describes. • Buzz • Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines contradictory ideas. • Parallelism: a poetic device in which two or more words, phrases or lines of a poem reflect each others' content.

  5. Literary Devices: • Pathos: The appeal to an emotion • Pun: A play on words, usually for comic reception. • Soliloquy: A dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections.

  6. Poetic Devices • Iamb: a group of two syllables with a unstressed and stressed syllable. • Iambic Pentameter: a line of 5 feet that are unstressed and stressed: • “That time of year thou mayst in me behold. • Feet: groups of syllables in a line. • Penta=5 • Meter=The basic rhythmic structure of a verse of lines in verse.

  7. Sonnets • 14 lined poem • 2 types • Shakespearean • Petrarchan

  8. Petrarchan Sonnet • 14 lines; 2 stanzas • First 8 lines: octave • Problem is presented • Final 6 lines: sestet • Answer to the problem

  9. Shakespearean Sonnet • 14 lines • 3 quatrains • 1 couplet

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