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SONNETS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many lines is a sonnet ?

a)

13 lines

b)

18 lines

c)

10 lines

d)

14 lines

2.

The poetic foot is?

a)

A stanza of four lines

b)

A group of two syllables 

c)

A ten-syllable line

d)

A group of four syllables

3.

The octave rhyming

a)

obbaabo

b)

cdcdcd

c)

abbaabba

d)

cededede

4.

The sestet rhyming

a)

cdecde

b)

cdcdcd

c)

cdedce

d)

All of the above

5.

The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem

a)

Octave

b)

Sestet

c)

Quatrain

d)

All of the above

6.

The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question in the first eight lines.

a)

triplet

b)

couplet

c)

sestet

d)

octave

7.

Iambic pentameter

a)

A group of syllables

b)

A stanza of four lines

c)

A twelve syllable line

d)

none of the above

8.

The sonnet developed in

a)

United Kingdom

b)

Italy

c)

America

d)

Romania

9.

Two major sonnet forms :

a)

none of the below

b)

the spenserian sonnet, the Miltonic sonnet, the terza rima sonnet

c)

the meter of iambic pentameter, and follow a set rhyme scheme

d)

Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet and the Shakespearean (English) sonnet.

10.

what is a sonnet ?

a)

A narrative poetry

b)

A very structured type of poetry

c)

A very structured type of rhyme

d)

A very hard type of poetry