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Petrarchan (Italian Sonnet)

Authored by Tonia Deacon-Bradnock

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 25+ times

Petrarchan (Italian Sonnet)
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.

Epic

Narrative Poem

Sonnet

Limerick

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.

quatrain

couplet

octave

sestet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

Italian Sonnet

English Sonnet

Spenserian Sonnet

None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Another name for a type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

English Sonnet

Spenserian Sonnet

Petrarchan Sonnet

None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem.

Octave

Sestet

Couplet

Quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme.

Cadence

Meter

Iamb

All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An Italian sonnet has..

3 Quatrains, 1 Couplet
1 Octave, 2 Couplets 
1 Octave, 1 Sestet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

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