What Is a Sonnet

What Is a Sonnet

12th Grade

15 Qs

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What Is a Sonnet

What Is a Sonnet

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

CCSS
RL.9-10.10, RI.9-10.4, RL.9-10.9

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.

Epic

Narrative Poem

Sonnet

Limerick

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

Petrarchan Sonnet

Shakespearean Sonnet

Spenserian Sonnet

Italian Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an accented, unaccented pattern.

Trochee

Iamb

Pentameter

Octometer

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is another name for the Shakespearean sonnet.

Italian Sonnet

Petrarchan Sonnet

Spenserian Sonnet

English Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A four line stanza.

couplet

refrain

quatrain

octave

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.

iambic pentameter

iambic tetrameter

trochee pentameter

trochee tetrameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.

quatrain

couplet

octave

sestet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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