What is the 'volta' in a Petrarchan sonnet?

Between the sixth and the eighth line

The rhyme pattern ABBA ABBA CDCD CD is found in...

Neither Petrarchan or Shakespearean

A ceasura is when a ...

a stop or an interruption in the middle of a line.

comma ends the line because the idea continues into the next line.

period ends the line and a new idea begins in the next line.

pause occurs at the end of a stanza.

Sonnet Quiz

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A Shakespearean Sonnet has the following division:

Eight Lines of problem followed by six lines of solution

Four quatrains with a problem in the first two and a solution in the second

Three quatrains and a couplet that offer a theme, a metaphor, a twist, and a summary

Fourteen lines that tell a story in chronological order

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Common subjects in sonnets are _ and .

love and taxes

love and England

love and time

love and nature

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The rhyme scheme in this stanza is __________________
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts be dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

AABB

ABABA

ABAB

ABBA

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

An Italian sonnet has..

3 Quatrains, 1 Couplet

1 Octave, 2 Couplets

1 Octave, 1 Sestet

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following poets ends his sonnets with a rhyming couplet?

Ronsard

Petrarch

Dante Alighieri

Shakespeare

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is the "father" of European sonnets?

Shakespeare

Wyatt

Petrarch

Spenser

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which every other line rhymes.

true

false

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

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Sonnet Quiz

A Shakespearean Sonnet has the following division:

Common subjects in sonnets are _ and .

The rhyme scheme in this stanza is __________________
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts be dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

An Italian sonnet has..

Which of the following poets ends his sonnets with a rhyming couplet?

Who is the "father" of European sonnets?

Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which every other line rhymes.

The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.

An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. An example of an iamb would be "good-BYE".

All Shakespearean sonnets have a specific rhyme pattern.

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Sonnet Quiz

A Shakespearean Sonnet has the following division:

Common subjects in sonnets are ___________ and __________.

The rhyme scheme in this stanza is __________________ "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts be dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

An Italian sonnet has..

Which of the following poets ends his sonnets with a rhyming couplet?

Who is the "father" of European sonnets?

Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which every other line rhymes.

The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.

An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. An example of an iamb would be "good-BYE".

All Shakespearean sonnets have a specific rhyme pattern.

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Common subjects in sonnets are _ and .

The rhyme scheme in this stanza is __________________
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts be dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.