Sonnets Quiz

Who originated the sonnet?

• Shakespeare

• Petrarch

• Anglo Saxons

• Greeks

Sonnets are primarily about ________ love.

• Unrequited

• Brotherly

• Forbidden

• New

Shakespearean sonnets have __ lines

• 10

• 12

• 14

• 20

Each sonnet has __ quartrains

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

A quatrain is a stanza that has __ lines

• 2

• 4

• 8

• 14

Every Shakespearean sonnet ends in a _______

• Couplet

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Two consecutive lines that rhyme are a...

• Sonnet

• Quatrain

• Iamb

• Couplet

The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is...

• AABBCCDDEEFFGG

• ABBACDDCEFFEGG

• 12123434565677

• ABABCDCDEFEFGG

The meter of a Shakespearean sonnet is...

• ABABCDCDEFEFGG

• Iambic Pentameter

• Petrarchan

• Shakespearean

An Iamb is...

• an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable

• Two unstressed syllables in a row

• Two stressed syllables in a row