Academic Vocabulary
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 Shakespearean Sonnet/English Sonnet: A fourteen
line poem broken up into three quatrains and one
couplet. The three quatrains set up a question or idea
and the couplet answers that question or idea.
 Quatrain: Four lines of poetry that encapsulates one
idea.
 Couplet: Two lines of poetry that encapsulates one
idea and rhymes.
 Iambic Pentameter: Each line contains 10 syllables
Sonnet 18
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 Shift: Mark the quatrains, couplet, and rhyme scheme
 Title: Ignore
 Paraphrase
 If I compare you to a summers day, I would say that you are more beautiful and lovely than it.
 Sometimes the sun is not as bright as it always is and sometimes beautiful things are not
always beautiful
 Death will never kill you and you will never become ugly
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Because as long as people read this they will know how beautiful you are
 Connotation:
 Buds of May – Delicate flower – Subject
 Untrimm’d – Things are allowed to go wild and get ugly (like a hedge)
 Attitude: Subject = Woman + She is beautiful = We think she is beautiful
 Title: Ignore
 Theme Through Shakespeare’s 18th Sonnet, readers learn how a woman’s beauty can
last forever if it is captured in words.
Sonnet 29
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 As a team do a STPCATT
Sonnet 33
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 Write a commanding paragraph on the sonnet’s
tone.
Sonnet 73
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 Individually create a thesis you could write to on this
poem.
 When everyone is done, compare your thesis against
your team members.
Sonnet 116
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 Identify the purpose of the poem
 Identify the words that lead you to that purpose
 Set up an L1-L3 Chart that allows you to check to see
if you are correct
Sonnet 129
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 Create a body paragraph while at the same time
using the academic vocabulary of this style of
writing.