Sonnet

Sonnet

12th Grade

15 Qs

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Sonnet

Sonnet

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.11-12.13, RL.9-10.10, RL.9-10.9

+3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What do we call a change in tone, subject, or theme between the second and fourth quatrains of a sonnet?

plot twist

anticlimax

inciting incident

turn/Volta

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a group of four lines in a sonnet called?

Quatrain

Sestet

Quartet

Octave

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

1 min • 1 pt

An English/Shakespearean Sonnet has the following division: 

Eight Lines of problem followed by six lines of solution

Four quatrains with a problem in the first two and a solution in the second

Three quatrains and a couplet that offer a theme, a metaphor, a twist, and a summary

Fourteen lines that tell a story in chronological order

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet

Petrarchan Sonnet

English/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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The last six lines in an Italian sonnet

quatrain

couplet

octave

sestet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

Italian Sonnet

English Sonnet

Spenserian Sonnet

None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end an English sonnet.

Sestet

Iamb

Quatrain

Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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