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 Poetic Foot: groups of syllables in a line.
Meter= The recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
Iamb: a group of two syllables with a unstressed and stressed syllable.
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold.”
“But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?”
“It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”
Iambic Pentameter: a line of 5 feet that are unstressed and stressed:
Blank Verse- verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Penta=5

7. Sonnets
14 lined poem
2 types
Shakespearean
Petrarchan

8. Shakespearean Sonnet 14 lines 3 quatrains 1 (Heroic) couplet
Problem is presented
1 (Heroic) couplet
Answer to the problem

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