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ornate sonnet

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A sonnet form distinguished by baroque intricacy, dense imagery, and ornamental diction, often associated with 17th-century metaphysical or courtly verse.

Detailed Definition
An ornate sonnet embellishes the traditional 14-line form with excessive rhetorical flourishes, intricate conceits, or lavish imagery, transforming the sonnet from a vehicle of concise thought into a showcase of linguistic and imagistic virtuosity.
Example
Example in poetry:
A sonnet, perhaps following the Spenserian or Petrarchan rhyme scheme, but employing dense, highly descriptive language and intricate metaphors; A fourteen-line poem whose subject is simple, but the language used to describe it is deliberately convoluted and flowery; A poem that adheres to the sonnet form but uses an overabundance of alliteration, assonance, and complex figures of speech; A Shakespearean sonnet that uses an elevated, archaic vocabulary and extremely complex syntax in every line.
Additional Notes
ornate sonnet: A sonnet (14 lines, often iambic pentameter) characterized by the use of highly decorative, complex, or richly detailed language, imagery, and figurative devices; sometimes called a Baroque sonnet.
Also Known As
embellished sonnet decorative sonnet ornate lyric form aureate sonnet Baroque sonnet elaborate sonnet ornate fourteen-liner
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