Exploring Sonnets Structure and History
Grade 17 · ELA · 55 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze the structural and historical evolution of the sonnet form.
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Shakespeare was a poet who used stress to emphasize certain syllables in words.
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An iamb is a two-syllable foot where the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed, as in the phrase 'I am'.
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Iambic pentameter is a meter where each line of verse has five iambs, totaling ten syllables.
