WorksheetsG7 Poetry and Sonnets
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
What are the two types of sonnets we covered?
Villanelle and Italian
Italian and Shakespearean
English and French
Haiku and Sonku
An Italian sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet have the same number of lines
false
true
The rhyme scheme is the
units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines
nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines
measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines
pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines
What is the rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
ABAB CDE CDE DDGG
ABBAABBA CDCDCD
ABBA ABAB CDCDEE
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
The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem.
Octave
Sestet
Couplet
Quatrain
The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.
quatrain
couplet
octave
sestet
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.
Sestet
Iamb
Quatrain
Couplet
