Renaissance Poetry Review

All of the following elements are characteristic of a sonnet except:

• It is a lyric poem

• It has fourteen lines

• It is written in free verse

• Its meter is iambic pentameter

What is another name for the Petrarchan sonnet?

• the Italian sonnet

• the Elizabethan sonnet

• the English sonnet

• the Octavian sonnet

The Shakespearean sonnet consists of:

• one octave and one sestet

• three quatrains and a couplet

• Two tercets and one cinquain

• one sestet and four couplets

Which of the following is the rhyme scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet?

• abba, abba, cde, cde

• abba, cdd, abba, eff, ffe

• abba, cddc, abba, cddc, eff

• abab cdcd efef gg

Common subjects of carpe diem poetry are:

• faith and religion

• heroes and adventures

• fame and fortune

• love and death

From reading the included Shakespearean sonnets, one can conclude that Shakespeare's idea of love involves the premise that

• true love ends when circumstances require that it do so

• people must be close in age to be truly in love

• real love brings a person money, fame, and respect

• true love is indifferent to wealth, beauty, age and circumstance

In Sonnet 29, the first twelve lines emphasize the speaker’s

• jealousy

• feelings of love

• self-pity

• sense of hope

The passage "Love's not Time's fool" in Sonnet 116 suggests that love

• is not deluded by material wealth

• cannot last forever

• endures the decline of youth

• is strongest when people are young

Before the final couplet, the speaker in Sonnet 130 seems to be

• praising his mistress

• criticizing his mistress

• criticizing society

• fooled by his mistress’ beauty

The speaker in "To the Virgins, to Make much of Time" uses the setting of the sun to emphasize

• his love

• a religious faith

• respect for the elderly

• the brevity of life