Sonnet Quiz

How many lines are in a sonnet?

• 10
• 12
• 14
• 16

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The Shakespearean Sonnet is also known as

• English
• Italian
• Irish
• Dickensian

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The Shakespearean Sonnet has

• one cinquain, one x-line stanza
• three quatrains, one couplet
• one octave, one sestet
• two septets

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What is the rhythmic meter of a sonnet?

• iambic pentameter 
• iambic monometer 
• trochaic tetrameter
• No rhythmic meter

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How many feet are in a pentameter?

• 10
• 11
• 4
• 5

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What type of sonnet is this?

Sonnet Number 18:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

• English

• Italian

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What is the typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• abab;cdcde;efef;gg
• aabb;ccdd;eeff
• aaab;bbbc;cccd;dd
• zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Who made the sonnet form famous?

• Petrarch
• Wyatt
• Shakespeare
• Burbage

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Why did Shakespeare use iambic pentamter in his writing?

• It helped actors to memorize lines better.
• He was trying to be a rapper.
• It was a gift from Italy

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A sonnet is

• Fourteen lines that follow that end in a couplet.
• Fourteen lines that follow a specific rhyme scheme and end in a couplet.

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