Sonnets

Which poem is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet?

• Sonnet 130

• Sonnet 18

• Sonnet 83

• Sonnet 77

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

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

• Quatrain

• Cinquain

• Quartet

• Tetrain

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

How many syllables are in a line of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• 5

• 7

• 10

• 12

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

How many quatrains are in a Shakespearean sonnet?

• 4

• 2

• 5

• 3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

How many syllables are in this line: By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

• 11

• 10

• 9

• 13

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Shakespeare's use of five iambs stringed together is called

• iambic pentameter

• trochaic quadmeter

• spondaic pentameter

• dactylic trimeter

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the rhyme scheme here?

• abab

• aabb

• abcd

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?

• abab bcbc cdcd ee

• abab cdcd efef gg

• abba abba cdecde

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the rhyme scheme of this excerpt?

• ababccbdd

• ababccdee

• ababcdcdee

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?

• abababab ccddee

• abbaabba cdcdcd

• abbacbbc dedede

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4