This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 12 (27 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A typical upper-class evening of entertainment after dinner at someone's home during the Elizabethan period would include all of the following except: A) Women seeking husbands. B) Couples writing sonnets together. C) Men reading their newly written sonnets to the guests. D) Men and/or women playing musical instruments while others danced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couples writing sonnets together. 2. What makes a rhyming couplet? A) Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme. B) Two lines with 'ab' rhyming scheme. C) Three lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme. 3. In Sonnet 73, line 12 "Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by" is an example of a(n) ..... A) Imagery. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 4. An Elegy is..... A) A sad, song-like poem expressing sorrow and grief for one who is dead or for a lifestyle that is gone. B) A sad song about someone not loving you back. C) A chant. D) A happy, short poem with 3 lines and rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sad, song-like poem expressing sorrow and grief for one who is dead or for a lifestyle that is gone. 5. In Sidney's Sonnet 39, the speaker asks sleep to "make in me those civil wars to cease." What does he mean by "civil wars" ? A) A quarrel between the speaker and Stella. B) The speaker's anger toward society. C) The war going on in England between the common people and the king. D) The conflict and despair he feels because of his love for Stella. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The conflict and despair he feels because of his love for Stella. 6. Scholars believe Shakespeare invented ..... A) 500 words. B) More than 1700 words. C) Less than 300 words. D) 100 words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More than 1700 words. 7. In sonnet 18 the speaker promises the youth's beauty will not fade. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. How many feet are in a line of iambic pentameter A) 5. B) 3. C) 2. D) 10. E) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 9. What do we call two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme? A) A dynamic duo. B) A diameter. C) A chorus. D) A couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A couplet. 10. How many syllables per line in a sonnet? A) 6. B) 4. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 11. I ate an enormous meal today. What is the word enormous in this sentence? A) Adverb. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adjective. 12. A reference to something or someone else well known outside of the work being read. A) Illusion. B) Allusion. C) Foreshadow. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 13. In Sonnet 43 what is concluded? A) She wishes to make a change but can't. B) She is finished with her lover. C) She will continue to love but with rules. D) She will always love beyond measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She will always love beyond measure. 14. The first 8 lines are called the ..... A) Sestet. B) Octave. C) Turn. D) Merry Go Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. 15. Line 9 implies that the speaker ..... A) Can't possibly make his feelings clear to his love. B) Has written poems that say what he can't express with speech. C) Wants to end the relationship. D) Believes his feelings are not being reciprocated by his love. E) Will never be able to express his feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has written poems that say what he can't express with speech. 16. The arrangement of words in poetry based on rhythm, accents, and the number of syllables in a line A) Metric. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 17. What do we call a description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) A) Rule of fives. B) Sensory plus. C) Sensations. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 18. Metre in a Shakespearean sonnet: A) Alternating rhyme. B) Iamb. C) Trochee. D) Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. 19. In a Shakespearean drama, a/an ..... is a comment made to the side that only the audience can hear. A) Monologue. B) Soliloquy. C) Aside. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 20. The first eight lines of a sonnet A) Analyze the previous sonnet. B) Argue for change. C) Give a moral. D) Give a proposition, problem, or question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give a proposition, problem, or question. 21. The long, blonde hair and brown eyes were unique to her. What is long in this sentence? A) Verb. B) Adverb. C) Adjective. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 22. Each line in a sonnet must have ..... syllables A) 10. B) 12. C) 5. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 23. How many syllables does iambic trimeter have? A) 6. B) 10. C) 8. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 24. What is the tone of this poem? A) Upset and sad. B) Joyful and Happy. C) Sarcastic and Bossy. D) There was no tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upset and sad. 25. What is love compared to in Shakespeare's Sonnet 116? A) A star. B) Time. C) A flower. D) A ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A star. 26. In Sonnet 130, how does the speaker's mistress compare to such symbols as the sun, coral, and a rose? A) She is more beautiful. B) She is as beautiful. C) She does not rival their beauty. D) She combines them all into her special beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She does not rival their beauty. 27. Which type of rhythm imitates the sound of a horse galloping? (UU/) A) Iamb. B) Anapest. C) Trochee. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anapest. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 1Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 2Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 3Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 4Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 5Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 6Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 7Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books