Genre:a category or class into which literary works are grouped based on their similarities •Genres = drama, poetry, prose •(Sub)genres = mystery, love story, gothic horror, sci-fi, etc… •Genres identified in the “First Folio”: comedy, history, and tragedy Shakespeare’s Sonnets •Probably written between 1593 and 1603 •Published in 1609 •The speaker, or voice, of the sonnets is an old man •The focus of sonnets 1-126 is an attractive young man •The focus of sonnets 127-154 is an older “dark lady” •Alineof poetry is made up of a certain number of syllables •Asentencehas a subject and a verb. It makes grammatical sense, and it ends in a period, question mark, or exclamation point •A sonnet has 14 lines, but can have a various amount of sentences •“end-stop” means the sentence ending is coterminous (having the same boundaries) with the end of the line. The line will end at a natural place to pause. •“enjambment” is where the meaning and grammar of a sentence pulls the reader from one line to the next •lines of poetry are divided into “feet” oa foot is just a group of syllables oMonometer1 Foot (2 syllables) oDimeter2 Feet (4 syllables) oTrimeter3 Feet (6 syllables) oTetrameter4 Feet (8 syllables) oPentameter5 Feet (10 syllables)
