IMAGERY: A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes
the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of
literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem,
whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor. Imagery is not
limited to visual imagery; it also includes auditory (sound), tactile (touch),
thermal (heat and cold), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and kinesthetic
sensation (movement).
SONNET: a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete
thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with
rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the
strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave)
followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form
into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
Answer:
What is the function of the religious imagery of the sonnet within which Romeo and Juliet first meet?
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