ENG10 Poetry L5 (On His Blindness)

A Petrarchan sonnet consists of...

• An octave, a volta and a sestet

• Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet

• Free verse and a rhyming couplet

• Two quatrains, a volta and a rhyming couplet

True or False:

A Petrarchan sonnet has the same rhyme scheme as a Shakespearean sonnet.

• True

• False

True or False:

The speaker and the author are always the same thing.

• True

• False

John Milton was writing during an era known as...

• The Restoration Period

• The Elizabethan Era

• The Victorian Era

• The Postmodernist Period

The word 'intertextuality' refers to...

• Texts that interact or reference each other

• Texts that are not related in any way