Sonnet

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

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

• Quatrain

• Sestet

• Quartet

• Octave

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

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet

• Petrarchan Sonnet

• English/Shakespearean Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

The last six lines in an Italian sonnet

• quatrain

• couplet

• octave

• sestet

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

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

How many quatrains are in an English sonnet?

• 4

• 2

• 5

• 3

The Sonnet began in what country

• Italy

• England

• London

• Greece

How many lines are in a sonnet?

• 14 lines

• 10 lines

• 5 lines

• 12 lines