sonnet
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When you can write a sonnet but can’t spell “strawberry,” you haven’t achieved intelligence.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025
Underneath her outfit, “in a little bag next to her skin,” Vaill says, “she wore his little poem,” a love sonnet he’d written her during their courtship.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
That rude clatter is his equivalent of a sonnet.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
The sonnet sits in the miscellany alongside "politically charged" works from the 1640s - the decade of the English Civil War, fought between Royalists and Parliamentarians.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025
“In Lit class I’m going to write you a sonnet about how nothing could possibly be gayer than writing your friend a haiku.”
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing sonnet
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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