Wacky Sonnets!!!!!
Review Vocabulary:
iamb – unit of poetry consisting of two syllables with the first syllable being unstressed and the
second syllable being stressed. Examples: become, the sun, undo, big blue
iambic pentameter – a line of poetry that consists of five iambs. Example: Go forth/ and be/ a
brave/ and hap/py child.
connotation – the idea or feeling of a word separate from its literal meaning. Example: pretty
and beautiful have similar meanings, but beautiful has a stronger connotation.
Directions: Part 1
For each item, come up with a word or group of words that fit ALL of the given criteria.
1.
Noun referring to a school appropriate body part
One syllable
___________
2.
Noun
1 iamb
Rhymes with run
____________
3.
Noun associated with the color red
(ex: fire engine)
1 iamb
____________
4.
1 syllable
associated with the color brown
(ex: UPS Uniform)
rhymes with run
_____________
5.
noun (preferably something gross)
one syllable
_____________
6.
restate #5 in another way
(ex: granny smith is another way to say apple)
1 iamb
_____________
7.
adjective (preferably something with nice connotation)
1 iamb
rhymes with light
______________
8.
noun followed by a verb depicting gracefulness
2 iambs
ending syllable rhymes with go
___________________________________
9.
adjective
one syllable
rhymes with rare
_______________
10.
2 iambs
ending syllable rhymes with rare
_______________
Directions: Part 2
Now fill in the blanks with your answers to 1-10 and see what kind of wacky sonnet you have
created!
Sonnet 130
My mistress’ ________________(1) are (is) nothing like __________________(2);
_________________(3) is far more red than her lips’ red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are _______________(4);
If hairs be ________________(5), ________________(6) grow(s) from her head.
I have seen damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more ________________(7)
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath far more pleasant sound.
I grant I never saw _______________________________(8):
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as _______________(9).
As any she belied _________________________(10).