Sonnets Video Quiz

What major public health crisis was London facing in 1603?

• The flu

• Cholera

• Smallpox

• The plague

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What was banned in London due to the plague?

• Travel out of the city

• All trade

• Public gatherings

• Fishing on the Thames

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How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write around the year 1600?

• 200

• 100

• 50

• 154

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What poetic form is characterized by having 14 lines?

• Sonnet

• Limerick

• Free verse

• Haiku

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Who popularized the sonnet form in England?

• Sir Philip Sidney

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• John Donne

• Christopher Marlowe

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What is the typical structure of a sonnet?

• Five tercets

• Two sestets

• Three quatrains and a couplet

• Four cinquains

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What meter is predominantly used in Shakespeare's sonnets?

• Dactylic dimeter

• Iambic pentameter

• Anapestic hexameter

• Trochaic tetrameter

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Which character in the sonnets is described as a 'fair youth'?

• A young nobleman

• A young peasant

• A middle-aged merchant

• An old king

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What theme is NOT commonly found in Shakespeare's sonnets?

• Space exploration

• Love

• Despair

• Jealousy

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What literary device involves the repetition of the same word at the start of lines?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Onomatopoeia

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