Class Notes from Lecture
Sonnet Notes:
Shakespearean: (Elizabethan)
- 14 lines
- 3 Quatrains: 4 lines each
- 1 Couplet: Answer
- abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan: (Italian) "little song"
- 14 lines
- First Eight lines: Octave – Proposition, dilemma, question
- Last Six lines: Sestet – Comment, application, solution
- abba abba cde cde or cd cd cd
Literary Terms
1. Personification - giving human characteristics to non-human things
2. Simile - comparison of two unlike things using like or as
3. Metaphor - comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
4. Apostrophe: direct address to an absent or dead person, an abstract idea or an inanimate object
