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What is a simile?
This is a comparison between two seemingly unlike objects using "like or as"
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What is Sonnet 18?
In this sonnet, the speaker compares their love to a summer's day
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What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
This rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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What is assonance?
This is repetition of a vowel sound in a line?
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What is a sonnet?
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
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What is a metaphor?
This is a comparison between two seemingly unlike objects using without using "like or as"
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What is Sonnet 29?
In this sonnet, the speaker declares that when they remember the their love, they would not trade places with a king
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What is an Italian Sonnet?
This rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA CDECDE
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What is diction?
This is the word choice the author uses.
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What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
This is another name for an English sonnet.
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What is connotation?
This is the emotional response or feeling from a word
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What is Sonnet 130
In this sonnet, the speaker repeatedly insults their lover by saying that their lips aren't as red as coral.
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What is a Quatrain?
This is the name of a group of 4 lines in a sonnet.
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What is alliteration?
This is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
This is another name for an Italian sonnet.
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What is denotation?
This is the dictionary meaning of the word
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What is Sonnet 116?
In this sonnet, the speaker declares that love is constant and unchanging.
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What is a Sestet?
This is the name of a group of 6 lines in a sonnet.
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What is onomatopoeia?
This is the process of using words to imitate sounds
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What is iambic pentameter?
This follows the pattern of unstressed-stressed pattern and has 5 feet.
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What is personification?
The is giving human qualities to inhuman objects
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What is Sonnet 130?
In this sonnet, the speaker repeatedly insults their lover by saying that music is more pleasing to hear over the love's voice.
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What is an Octave?
This is the name of a group of 8 lines in a sonnet.
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What is imagery?
This is language that appeals to the senses.
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What is an allusion?
This is a casual and indirect reference to something else.
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