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Renaissance Poetry Review

Authored by Catherine Clark

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is another name for the Petrarchan sonnet?

the Italian sonnet

the Elizabethan sonnet

the English sonnet

the Octavian sonnet

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3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Common subjects of carpe diem poetry are:

faith and religion

heroes and adventures

fame and fortune

love and death

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

jealousy

feelings of love

self-pity

sense of hope

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