This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is famous for writing many sonnets? A) Emily Dickenson. B) Naomi shi ha BN also. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 2. The two ending rhymes are called a couplet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. In Shakespearean dramas, a/an ..... is an outcome that no one expects to happen. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Misunderstanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 4. Which one is the correct rhyme scheme for sonnets? A) Aabb ccdd eeff gg. B) Aabb ccdd eeff gghh ii. C) Abab cdcd efef gg. D) Abcd abcd efgh efgh ii. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abab cdcd efef gg. 5. What makes a sonnet? A) Fourteen lines. B) Three Quatrains. C) Two octaves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fourteen lines. 6. Shakespeare uses a sonnet which, initially at least, points out the flaws of his (supposed) lover. This use of the sonnet is an example of ..... A) Satire. B) Commission. C) Litotes. D) Hyperbole. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Irony. 7. When the speaker in Sonnet 29 says "Haply I think on thee, and then my state, /Like to the lark at break of day arising/ From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" he is comparing thinking about his love to A) Being worried in the nighttime. B) Singing along with the birds. C) Birds singing at daybreak. D) The death of a loved one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birds singing at daybreak. 8. Sonnets Composed Upon Westminster bridge is the description of A) River Thames. B) A bridge. C) The city of London. D) A ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The city of London. 9. Have 14 lines-divided into an octave and a sestet-that follow the rhyme scheme ABB ABBA CDCCDC or ABBA ABBA CDECDE. A) Spenserian. B) Petrarchan. C) Shakespearean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarchan. 10. In "Sonnet XIX", Milton is facing what kind of crisis? A) Faith. B) Time. C) Love. D) Midlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Midlife. 11. How many quatrains are in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) 14. B) 5. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 12. Why was iambic pentameter preferred by Shakespeare's actors? A) It was naturally suited to the English language. B) The queen despised iambic tetrameter. C) Only the upper class could understand it. D) It was Shakespeare's personal preference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was naturally suited to the English language. 13. What is the figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things by using "like" or "as?" A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 14. Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other is ..... A) Smile. B) Metaphor. C) Meataphor. D) Simile. E) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. What are most closely the themes of Sonnet 18? A) Nature and man. B) Beauty and death. C) Love and immortality. D) Uncertainty and time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love and immortality. 16. Shakespearean sonnet has ..... quatrains followed by a ..... A) Poems, speaker. B) Three, couplet. C) Quarters, couple. D) Quarts, cups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three, couplet. 17. Shakespearean Sonnets have how many stanzas? A) 4. B) 2. C) 1. D) 3. E) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1. 18. What is iambic meter? A) A "foot" with an unstressed and stressed syllable (u /). B) A "foot" with a stressed and unstressed syllable (/ u). C) A line with 10 syllables. D) A line with a varied meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A "foot" with an unstressed and stressed syllable (u /). 19. Sonnets are usually written in iambic pentameter. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. William Shakespeare is the only person who ever wrote sonnets. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 21. Which of the following meanings of prime is used in this sentence?The garden was lovely two weeks ago, but now it is past its prime. A) First in rank, value or quality; excellent. B) The earliest part of something; the beginning. C) The best, most vigorous, or most fully mature stage of something. D) Of a number that can be divided evenly by no number except itself andthe number one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The best, most vigorous, or most fully mature stage of something. 22. In a drama, the opposite of what is expected. A) Foreshadow. B) Conflict. C) Symbolism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 23. Why would a poet choose free verse form rather than a sonnet form? A) The freedom of the form allows the poet to include lots of imagery, speak his/her thoughts freely, and support the theme more easily. B) Free Verse rhymes. C) Free verse must be 14 lines and include iambic pentameter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The freedom of the form allows the poet to include lots of imagery, speak his/her thoughts freely, and support the theme more easily. 24. What is assonant rhyme A) Verses that end in the same vowel I want to see it. B) Verses that end in the same vowel and syllabledearhusbandlost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verses that end in the same vowel I want to see it. 25. Which characteristic of Shakespearean sonnets is found in Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130? A) Fourteen lines plus a rhymed couplet. B) An idealized view of love and life. C) A conclusion in the final two lines. D) An irregular rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A conclusion in the final two lines. 26. A soliloquy is ..... A) A character's thoughts. B) A poem. C) A few characters speaking. D) One character talking, speaking their thoughts aloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One character talking, speaking their thoughts aloud. 27. An example of synesthesia is found in ..... A) 9. B) 11. C) 6. D) 14. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 28. The other name for English sonnets is A) Shakespearean sonnets. B) Classic sonnets. C) Petrarchan sonnets. D) Italian sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespearean sonnets. 29. ..... is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England A) Iambic pentameter. B) Bionic pentameter. C) Symbiotic pentamenter. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 30. In the case of a sonnet, how many syllables does a feet have? A) It's not about how many syllables a feet has, but how many letters. B) One. C) Three. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two. 31. How does Shakespeare describe love in Sonnet 116? A) Love is humorous. B) Love is brief. C) Love is eternal. D) Love is harsh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love is eternal. 32. Words with similar ending sounds such as hit/bit, yellow/fellow, bark/park, and so on; when words at the end of a line of poetry or verse sound the same, the lines are said to rhyme A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhythm. C) Rhetoric. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 33. What is the purpose of the volta in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) A shift in tone. B) A twist in the narrative. C) Introduction of a new theme. D) A resolution or conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Introduction of a new theme. 34. According to the speaker in Sonnet 12 ( "When I do count the clock that tells the time" ), what is the one way in which human beings can defend themselves against the destructive nature of time? A) Using beauty products. B) Behaving ethically. C) Planting gardens. D) Having children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Having children. 35. How many syllables in an iamb? A) 10. B) 14. C) 5. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 36. What is the purpose of the final couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) To provide a twist. B) To make it rhyme with the rest of the sonnet. C) To provide commentary on the previously developed subject of the sonnet. D) To follow the structure created by Petrarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To provide commentary on the previously developed subject of the sonnet. 37. This poem has sometimes been compared to ..... A) Manipulation of an inferior intellect. B) A prisoner trapped in a cage. C) A confession to a clergyman. D) A rationalization. E) Surrendering to a foe in battle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A confession to a clergyman. 38. Which of the following is an example of sensory language? A) If this be error and upon me proved,. B) To seek the very one that I should flee;. C) That took me from myself for such a space. D) Coral is far more red than her lips' red;. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coral is far more red than her lips' red;. 39. When Shakespeare says:And in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.This is an example of: A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) The idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A metaphor. 40. Volta in a sonnet is? A) A diverging effect of theme occur in the ninth line. B) Penultimate line of a sonnet. C) Ultimate line of a sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A diverging effect of theme occur in the ninth line. 41. Consider this line: "'Vain man, ' said she, 'that doest in vain assay" '. Which of the following explains both uses of vain correctly? A) The first means vain, and the second serious. B) The first means foolish and the second means useless. C) The first means blood vessel, and the second means worthless. D) The first means happy and the second means nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The first means foolish and the second means useless. 42. A comparison between unlike items using the words like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 43. What is the typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Aaab;bbbc;cccd;dd. B) Abab;cdcde;efef;gg. C) Aabb; ccdd; eeff. D) Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abab;cdcde;efef;gg. 44. How many lines is a sonnet meant to have? A) Sixteen lines. B) Ten lines. C) Fourteen lines. D) Twelve lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fourteen lines. 45. What is the purpose of the octave in a sonnet? A) To conclude the poem. B) To summarize the argument. C) To change the rhyme scheme. D) To introduce the main idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To introduce the main idea. 46. Sonnets are written in iambic tetrameter A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, " is the opening line to A) 127. B) 18. C) 130. D) 34. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 3. 48. An Italian sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet have the same number of lines A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 49. The theme of a sonnet can be about- A) Love. B) Nature. C) People. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 50. Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of five syllables. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. What is the traditional meter used in sonnets? A) Dactylic pentameter. B) Trochaic tetrameter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Anapestic hexameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 52. The poem is written by A) S T Coleridge. B) Williams Wordsworth. C) William Blake. D) H W Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Williams Wordsworth. 53. A sonnet is consisted of ..... A) 14 lines. B) 16 lines. C) 15 lines. D) 10 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14 lines. 54. What is a sestet (the 2nd part of an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes a ballad has these)? A) Rhyming lines of 4. B) Rhyming lines of 3. C) Rhyming lines of 6. D) Rhyming lines of 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming lines of 6. 55. What does a speaker of a sonnet often start the poem with? A) A problem, question or emotion. B) A problem, solution or answer. C) A question, a fact, and a statistic. D) An emotion and the causes and effects of that emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A problem, question or emotion. 56. What is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" A) Sonnet 18. B) Sonnet 34. C) Sonnet 99. D) Sonnet 155. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet 18. 57. Feel or show triumphant elation or jubilation. A) Sated. B) Languishing. C) Sojourn. D) Exults. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exults. 58. Which poetry type is usually written in quatrains (with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABCB) or sestets (with a rhyme scheme of ABCBDB)? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 59. What is the name of the meter Shakespeare uses that sounds much like a heartbeat? A) Trochaic Pentameter. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Iambic Tetrameter. D) Iambic Trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic Pentameter. 60. In a Shakespearean drama, a humorous episode to offset seriousness of previous scene is called ..... A) Contradictions. B) Comic relief. C) Humorous moment. D) Irony. 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