Unit 4 Test Review - Love Sonnets

What meter is most commonly used by poets writing sonnets in English?

• iambic pentameter

• trimeter

• tetrameter

• hexameter

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Petrarchan sonnets begin with a(n) ______________ and end with a(n) _____________.

• Octave; sestet

• Volta; octave

• Octave; volta

• Quatrain; couplet

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Shakespearean sonnets begin with ________________ and end with a(n) _______________.

• Three octaves; sestet

• Two couplets; quatrain

• Three quatrains; rhyming couplet

• Two voltas; octave

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The speaker in Sonnet 18 by Petrarch uses negative words and phrases throughout the sonnet to express the fact that _________________.

• He cannot find time to meet with his beloved.

• He cannot capture his beloved’s beauty in verse

• He cannot accept that his beloved has died

• He cannot understand what others see in his beloved.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What do the speaker’s descriptions of his “wild disorder’d gestures” and “lovelorn looks” help to convey in Sonnet 28 by Petrarch?

• He wants people to hear about his love

• He is in anguish over love.

• He is extremely happy with his beloved

• He is defiant in his refusal to love

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the speaker of Petrarch’s Sonnet 28 expressing when he says in line 13, “Where’er I wander, love attends me still”?

• He is at least able to feel comforted thanks to the love of another.

• He has been able to find some peach in his solitude in the natural world.

• He does not want to be alone as he did earlier in the poem.

• He cannot escape from his misery and lovesickness.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does the speaker in Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare mean when he says that he can “drown an eye”?

• He can forget

• He cannot swim

• He can cry

• He cannot see

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

To which of the following does the speaker of Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare not compare himself?

• The glowing embers of a fire

• Young and strong deer

• A tree in late autumn

• A day at twilight

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Based on the language of the first 2 quatrains in Sonnet 29, which of the following words best describes the mood of this part of the poem?

• proud

• fearful

• sad

• hopeful

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In lines 3 and 4 of Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, references to the "soul" and "ideal Grace" make readers view the love between the speaker and her beloved in _______.

• Spiritual terms

• scientific terms

• physical terms

• intellectual terms

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9