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
Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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