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.

A sonnet expresses an i _ _ a.

A sonnet is written in i _ _ _ _ c pentameter.

The first and the third lines of a sonnet r _ _ _ e with each other.