Poetry Unit-Sonnets

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

• Petrarchan Sonnet

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

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A four line stanza.

• couplet

• refrain

• quatrain

• octave

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The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called the

• couplet

• quatrain

• iambic pentameter

• volta

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Which of the following indicates a shift in the tone?

• yet

• but

• however

• both yet and but

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Although a sonnet contains only one stanza, its structure has _____ 'parts'.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

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Common subjects in Shakespeare's sonnets are ___________ and __________.

• love and taxes

• love and England

• English and history

• time and love

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An extended metaphor:

• conceit

• simile

• centro

• paradox

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When I do count the clock that tells the time,

And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;

When I behold the violet past prime,

And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white;

When lofty trees I see barren of leaves

Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,

And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves

Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,

Then of thy beauty do I question make,

That thou among the wastes of time must go,

Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake

And die as fast as they see others grow;

And nothing ‘gainst Time’s scythe can make defence

Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

In what line does the shift happen and what is the signal word?

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_{Which of the following lines from sonnet 60 best exemplifies the inevitability of time?}

• "NATIVITY, ONCE IN THE MAIN OF LIGHT"

• "AND NOTHING STANDS BUT FOR HIS SCYTHE TO MOW"

• "CRAWLS TO MATURITY, WHEREWITH BEING CROWN'D"

• "AND YET TO TIMES IN HOPE MY VERSE SHALL STAND"

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In Sonnet 73, line 12 "Consumed with that which it was nourish’d by" is an example of a(n) _____________.

• simile

• imagery

• paradox

• metaphor

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