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Sonnet Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is NOT criteria for a sonnet?
a)
14 lines
b)
specific sound devices
c)
specific rhyme scheme
d)
specific rhythm
2.
Who created the sonnet?
a)
Petrarch
b)
Wyatt
c)
Shakespeare
d)
Burbage
3.
Who brought sonnets to England?
a)
Petrarch
b)
Wyatt
c)
Shakespeare
d)
Burbage
4.
Who made the sonnet form famous?
a)
Petrarch
b)
Wyatt
c)
Shakespeare
d)
Burbage
5.
What is the biggest difference between Italian and English sonnets?
a)
Themes
b)
Metaphors
c)
Rhyme scheme
d)
Tone
6.
What is the correct rhyme scheme for a Shakespearian sonnet?
a)
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
b)
ABBAABBACDECDE
c)
AABBCCDDEEFFGG
d)
ABCDABCDABCDEE
7.
What is the purpose of the first quatrain?
a)
States an idea or theme
b)
Give examples related to the idea or theme
c)
Summarize and re-state the theme
d)
Elaborate on initially established metaphor
8.
What is the purpose of the second and third quatrains?
a)
States an idea or theme
b)
Give examples related to the idea or theme
c)
Summarize and re-state the theme
d)
Elaborate on initially established metaphor
9.
What is the purpose of the concluding couplet?
a)
States an idea or theme
b)
Give examples related to the idea or theme
c)
Summarize and re-state the theme
d)
Elaborate on initially established metaphor
10.
What is the metaphor in Sonnet 18?
a)
Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved
b)
Comparing his beloved to a summer's day
c)
Comparing Shakepeare to a summer's day
d)
Comparing his beloved to time
11.

The love Shakespeare describes in Sonnet 18 can be characterized as . . .

a)

Idealistic

b)

Realistic

c)

Genuine

d)

Sexual

12.

The love Shakespeare describes in Sonnet 130 can be characterized as . . .

a)

Idealistic

b)

Realistic

c)

Genuine

d)

Sexual

13.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 130:


I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

a)

Her breath is bad.

b)

Her cheeks are pale.

c)

Her hair is black and coarse.

d)

Her skin is brownish-gray.

14.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 130:


If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun

a)

Her breath is bad.

b)

Her cheeks are pale.

c)

Her hair is black and coarse.

d)

Her skin is brownish-gray.

15.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 130:


If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

a)

Her breath is bad.

b)

Her cheeks are pale.

c)

Her hair is black and coarse.

d)

Her skin is brownish-gray.

16.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 130:


And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

a)

Her breath is bad.

b)

Her cheeks are pale.

c)

Her hair is black and coarse.

d)

Her skin is brownish-gray.

17.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 130:


And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

a)

My beloved is more beautiful inside than any other woman outside.

b)

I love my beloved despite all of her many flaws.

c)

My beloved is just as beautiful as the women misrepresented by false standards of beauty.

d)

I love my beloved and find her to be the most beautiful woman in the world, inside and out.

18.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 18:


And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

a)

Summer is not an adequate metaphor for my beloved because my beloved is more perfect than a summer's day.

b)

All beautiful things will fade, either due to accident or age.

c)

Summer is too windy, too short, and too hot.

d)

My beloved and his/her beauty will live on because I have immortalized him/her in this poem.

19.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 18:


Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

a)

Summer is not an adequate metaphor for my beloved because my beloved is more perfect than a summer's day.

b)

All beautiful things will fade, either due to accident or age.

c)

Summer is too windy, too short, and too hot.

d)

My beloved and his/her beauty will live on because I have immortalized him/her in this poem.

20.

Interpret the following line from Sonnet 18:


So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

a)

Summer is not an adequate metaphor for my beloved because my beloved is more perfect than a summer's day.

b)

All beautiful things will fade, either due to accident or age.

c)

Summer is too windy, too short, and too hot.

d)

My beloved and his/her beauty will live on because I have immortalized him/her in this poem.