STUDY GUIDE for Renaissance Poetry Quiz

How many lines are in a sonnet? 

• 12
• 14
• 10
• 16

The Rhyme Scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet is 

• ABABCDCDEFEFGG
• ABABBCBCCDCDEE
• ABBABCCBCDDCDD
• ABBACDDCEFFEGG

Where did the sonnet originate?

• France
• England
• Portugal
• Italy

What does the word sonnet mean in Italian?

• little song
• little poem
• love song
• 14 lines

What Italian poet popularized the sonnet form?

• Shakespeare
• Milton
• Petrarch
• Donne

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

• 157
• 154
• 14
• 721

Tags

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

What does "thee" mean?

• They
• Me 
• You
• Him

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3

CCSS.RF.1.4

CCSS.RF.K.3

CCSS.RF.K.4

CCSS.RF.2.3F

What does the following mean?
"The apparel oft proclaims the man"

• The cloths that people wear often engulfs them.
• The clothes a person wears is often worn by a man
• A person is often judged by the clothes they wear.

What does the following mean?
"All that glitters is not gold"

• Sometimes valuables are in silver
• Sometimes gold doesn't glitter
• Not everything that looks valuable is worth anything

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

Alliteration is ___________________.

• The repetition of vowel sounds.
• The repetition of consonant sounds.
• The repetition of letters in a word.
• The repetition of the same word.