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How Do I Love Thee

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is considered as the first author of "How Do I Love Thee"?

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Elizabeth Barett Browning

c)

Christina Rossetti

d)

William Wordsworth

2.

What kind of figurative speech are present in "How Do I Love Thee"? (select two)

a)

simile

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

hyperbole

d)

metaphor

3.

How many lines does this sonnet have?

a)

4

b)

20

c)

41

d)

14

4.

What is its rhyme scene?

a)

cdcdcdabbaabba

b)

abbaabbacdcdcd

c)

bbaabbaadccd

d)

bbaabbaacdcdcd

5.

Sonnet was derived from the Italian word called ______?

a)

sonneto

b)

sonetto

c)

sonteno

d)

sonnetto

6.

What kind of meter is present on Sonnet 43?

a)

Spondaic

b)

Trochaic

c)

Iambic

d)

Dactylic

7.

Who is considered as the "Greatest Dramatist of All Times"?

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Christopher Marlowe

c)

Ben Jonson

d)

Oscar Wilde

8.

When was William Shakespeare born?

a)

June 13, 1620

b)

March 18, 1520

c)

April 14, 1418

d)

April 23, 1564

9.

What does the word "sonetto" means?

a)

short story about life

b)

expressing one's feelings

c)

little sound or song

d)

poem

10.

What is the original form of sonnet?

a)

Petcharan

b)

Petrarchan

c)

Petirchan

d)

Perchantran

11.

A sonnet can be broken into how many parts?

a)

10

b)

5

c)

4

d)

8

12.

How many sonnets were published by Shakespeare?

a)

200

b)

120

c)

130

d)

154

13.

Which is an example of a metaphor?

a)

I love thee freely, as men strive for right

b)

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise

c)

I shall but love thee better

d)

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach

14.

Sonnet was introduced to England by Thomas Wyatt and _____?

a)

Henry Howard

b)

Charles Howard

c)

Anne Boleyn

d)

Dorothy Neville

15.

What kind of tone is present in the poem "How Do I Love Thee"?

a)

Devastated

b)

Lovely

c)

Tragic

d)

Romantic

16.

Since "How Do I Love Thee?" is a Petrarchan sonnet, what kind of stanzas does it have?

a)

An octave and a sestet

b)

7 couplets

c)

2 quatrain and a couplet

d)

2 sestets and 1 couplet

17.

What can you say about the rhyme from the line:

"I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death."

a)

It has an interior rhyme wherein the rhyming words appear within the same line

b)

It has no rhyme

c)

It has end rhyme which means the rhyming words are at the end of the lines

d)

It has an interior and an end rhyme

18.

What kind of point of view is used in the line,

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height"?

a)

First

b)

Third

c)

Second

19.

What kind of personal poem expresses extreme emotions?

a)

Lyrical

b)

Narrative

c)

Concrete

20.

What type of lyrical poem consists of 14 lines?

a)

Elegy

b)

Haiku

c)

Sonnet

d)

Ode