Shakespeare Sonnets

What is a sonnet?

• a poem 

• a poem of fourteen lines

•   a poem using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

• ALL of the above

Shakespeare wrote...

• 38 plays and 158 sonnets

• 158 plays and 38 sonnets

• 74 poems, 47 plays, 747 sonnets

• No one knows exactly how many things he wrote.

Which of the following poets ends his sonnets with a couplet?

• Ronsard

• Petrarch

• Dante Alighieri

• Shakespeare 

Which of the following is the English Sonnet's Rhyme Scheme?

• a b b a a b b ac d e c d e  

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

How many of William Shakespeare's sonnets were published in his complete works?

• 154

• 54

• 37

• All of them

How many sonnets did shakespeare write?

• 154

• 200

• 120

• 75

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

• 145

• 73

• 154

In Sonnet 130, how does the speaker's mistress compare to such symbols as the sun, coral, and a rose?

• She is more beautiful

• She is as beautiful

• She does not rival their beauty

• She combines them all into her special beauty

The Shakespearean sonnet is organized in ___ quatrains of alternating rhymes plus a group of two lines.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

How did Shakespeare break tradition when he wrote Sonnet 130?

• He wrote about his pet dog instead of a person to mock tradition. 

• He wrote about someone he hated to show his dislike of typical sonnets. 

• He did not break tradition. He stayed in tradition to show others he could do it. 

• He compared a woman to nature, but said she could not compare to nature's beauty as a way to critique other sonnet's unrealistic comparisons.