The Sonnet

Here are some things you were taught,
you are responsible for having learned:
the sonnet, its origin, thesis/antithesis
rhetorical devices _____________
personae (voices), allusion,
metacognition (will be taught)
octave, sestet, quatrain, (triad), couplet
the Petrarchian or the Italian Sonnet
the English Renaissance
the Spenserian Sonnet
the English or Shakespearean Sonnet
masculine rhyme/feminine rhyme
assonance/alliteration (will be taught)
repetition
linked quatrains
rhyme scheme
alternating rhyme/internal rhyme
Queen Elizabeth, King James I (formerly James IV of Scotland)
The Chamberlain's Men/The King's Men
pastoral tradition
conventions of love poetry
King James translation of The Bible

VOCABULARY FROM THE POEMS,
IN YOUR NOTES, AND NEGATIONS
OF WORDS YOU DID NOT KNOW.