Задание

Read the text about Shakespearean sonnets and complete the sentences below with suitable words.

Apart from writing well-developed and intriguing plays, William Shakespeare is known to be the author of 154 sonnets. But what is a sonnet?

A sonnet is a special form of a poem that expresses the author's ideas and thoughts. It can differ in structure, but all sonnets have got two things in common: they have got fourteen lines and they are written in iambic pentameter.

Iambic pentameter is a type of poetry structure that refers to the number of weak and stressed syllables in each line. Normally, Shakespearean sonnets have the following rhyming pattern: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, which means that every second line rhymes with the next one, and the last two lines rhyme with each other.

Write one word in each gap.

William Shakespeare wrote one hundred fifty-four s _ _ _ _ _ s.

A sonnet is a type of p _ _ m.

There are fourteen l _ _ _ s in each sonnet.