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WorksheetsEdmund Spenser
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 3hrs 4mins
A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Shakespearean Sonnet
Italian Sonnet
English Sonnet
Spenserian Sonnet
A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
trochee pentameter
trochee tetrameter
A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.
trochee
dactyl
anapest
iamb
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme.
Cadence
Meter
Iamb
All of the above
What is a quatrain?
A poem made up of 4 stanzas
A group of 4 authors working together
A stanza made up of 4 lines
A train made up of 4 cars
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
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
The Renaissance was the rebirth of
arts, literature, and science
Monarchy
theatre
Religion
In Spenser’s Sonnet 75, the speaker writes his love’s name in the sand. What is his main message to his love in this poem?
He will love her forever.
His poem will make their love immortal.
Their love has survived great suffering.
The pleasures of love end with death.
How is a Spenserian sonnet different from a Petrarchan sonnet?
A Spenserian sonnet is always written as part of a sequence.
A Spenserian sonnet deals with love and the natural world.
A Spenserian sonnet has a different rhyme scheme.
A Spenserian sonnet has a different number of lines.
"A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise." What does the speaker’s beloved say about his efforts to write her name in the sand?
She asks him to keep trying so that she can see her name written in the sand.
She says it is pointless because, just as she will die someday, her name will be wiped out and forgotten
She scolds him for doing such a ridiculous thing
She praises his efforts for immortalizing her name.
"To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."
Why does the speaker say that his beloved’s name, as well as their love, will last forever?
Because he has written about them in his poetry.
Because they have become famous.
Because songs about her virtues will be sung throughout eternity.
Because the heavens will declare her glorious name.
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away". The setting of the poem is....
The speaker's beachhouse
On board a ship
Along the beach
in heaven
