Sonnet and Poetry Vocabulary

How many lines are in a sonnet

• 14

• 5

• 10

• 20

Sonnets are the Earliest form of what type of poem

• Lyrical

• Love

• Hate

• All the above

Petrarchan Sonnet was created by who

• William Shakespeare

• Petrarch

Many feel Petrarch is the -------- of the Italian Renaissance Developed the style

• Father

• Mother

Petrarchan Sonnet is what version of the Sonnet

• Italian version

• English version

Shakespearean Sonnet was developed by who

• William Shakespeare

• Petrarch

Shakespeare also wrote ---- poems in sonnet form

• 154

• 10

• 287

• 356

William Published together the poems in a book called ------, in 1609

• Quarto

• William Shakesperare

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Octive

a group of at least four lines of poetry with a set length, meter, and rhyme scheme is known as what

• Stanza

• Meter

• Quatrain

• Sestet

a stanza of eight lines of poetry, especially to begin an Italian Sonnet is known as what

• Octet / Octave

• Stanza

• Sixtet

• Meter