Creative Sonnet Assignment/ First Draft due on Friday, March 8 th, 2013

Final Draft Due: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Write an original sonnet with the following elements:

 14 lines
 Iambic Pentameter – ten syllables per line
 Shakespearean rhyme scheme – three quatrains and a couplet (abab cdcd efef gg)
 A minimum of two figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, and imagery
 Must have a tone shift, usually occurs in lines 9-12
 Must have a unifying theme and a creative title for the sonnet
 Presentation is YOUR choice. No required font size or type and paper type. Please be
creative with your sonnets in both form and content.
Sonnet Grading Rubric

Category 5 4 3 2
Format: Flawless use of 1-2 errors 3 errors 4 or more
Iambic iambic erros
Pentameter pentameter (14
lines, ten
syllables per
line)
Rhyme Follows the 1 error in rhyme 2 errors in 3 or more
Scheme rhyme scheme: rhyme errors in rhyme
abab cdcd efef
gg
Rhyming Contains a clear Contains a turn May contain a Does NOT
Couplet turn (VOLTA) a or volta turn or volta contain a turn
but or volta
Content Clear subject, Clear subject & Contains a No subject or
speaker, tone message. subject and message. Does
and message. Demonstrates message. not
Very creative – use of speaker Speaker and demonstrate
uses imagery and tone. tone may be use of speaker
and creative use unclear. and tone.
of metaphor, Creative and
simile & imaginative Creative and Lacks creativity
personification imaginative & imagination
Figures of Two clear Two examples One example of No examples
Speech examples of of either simile, either simile, of figures of
either simile, metaphor, metaphor, speech
metaphor, imagery and/or imagery and/or
imagery and/or personification personification
personification