A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________
LITERATURE
WAEC 2018
A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________
- A. A sestet
- B. An octave
- C. Two sestets
- D. Three quatrains
Correct Answer: D. Three quatrains
Explanation
The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. An important variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet (introduced by the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser), which links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee. In either form, the 'turn' comes with the final couplet, which may sometimes achieve the neatness of an epigram.
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