Sonnet 18

The last "part" in a Shakespearean sonnet is called

• rhyming couplet
• rhyming octave
• iambic tercet
• epistrophe

A sonnet contains _____ lines. 

• 12
• 4
• 14
• 16

The last 'part' of a sonnet contains ____ lines 

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The first 'part' of a sonnet contains ____ lines. 

• 4
• 3
• 2
• 1

The rhyme scheme of a sonnet depends upon ______________. 

• internal rhyme
• meter
• iambic pentameter
• end rhyme

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 

Which of the following is the English Sonnet's Rhyme Scheme?

• ABBAABBA CDECDE
• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• AAAA BBBB CCCC DE
• ABAB CDCD EFEF GGHH

Shakespeare's sonnet 18 compares a girl to..

• spring day
• summer's day
• nature
• his heartbeat 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Shakespeare says his mistress will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

• People will read about her in his poems 
• She will die and go to heaven 
• She will fall out of line
• People will know her because of her beauty 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 ("My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun") is an example of...

• Anti-Sonnet
• Fiction
• Octave
• Quatrains