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Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following best describes the speaker in Shakespeare's sonnet 116?
2. In Sonnet 73, at what stage of life is the speaker of this poem?
3. A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unstressed, stressed.
4. What might the repeating lines in a villanelle symbolize?
5. Which lines rhyme in each Shakespearean sonnet?
6. Each quatrain in a sonnet has how many lines?
7. Stay somewhere temporarily.
8. What was the conflict that Milton had when he was twenty-three?
9. What does the following symbol mean? /
10. What are English sonnets often called, and why?
11. What is the rhyming format for sonnets?
12. What are some themes that sonnets cover?
13. What does the speaker do in each quatrain of Sonnet 130?
14. Which line has a three-syllable word which is treated as a two-syllable word (to preserve regular iambic pentameter)?
15. Sestet is a stanza with .....
16. Though Shakespeare went to the King Edwards School, he did not go to .....
17. Which Sonnet addresses the fair youth as if he were his lord and he was his loyal servant?
18. Shakespearean sonnets have two quatrains and two tercets
19. How do you label rhyme scheme?
20. Akala says hip hop artists and Shakespeare are both ..... ?
21. If moving a load of bricks is referred to as toil, what kind of work must it be?
22. Limericks have existed for longer than sonnets have.
23. Which poetic form might feature repeating lines?
24. Identify whether the following sonnet is Shakespearean or Petrarchan by nature:
25. As the group faced the challenging puzzle, each member contributed ideas to ..... a strategy for solving it.
26. In a sonnet, how does the final couplet function?
27. Turning point in the Shakespearean sonnet, normally in line 9:
28. How many lines are there in the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet? (a)
29. What is the meter of a sonnet?
30. What are sonnets traditionally associated with?
31. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet typically rhyme and are called .....
32. Which type of poetry allows the poet to choose any form?
33. How many lines are in a quatrain?
34. A 14 lined, rhymed poem with a specific rhyme scheme is called a
35. A movement during the Renaissance that emphasized secular ideas and concerns, based on classical studies
36. The ABAB rhyme scheme lends itself to bouncing between pairs of ideas.
37. Who did English poets borrow the sonnet form from?
38. In Sidney's Sonnet 31, what does the moon symbolize?
39. How words are in a line of iambic pentameter
40. Soliloquies help us to understand .....
41. We performed badly. What is the word badly in this sentence?
42. A sonnet is split into an.....-line stanza and a.....-line stanza
43. Verse without rhyme yet in iambic pentameter is .....
44. What type of poem includes an iambic pentameter rhythm?
45. The heroic couplet contains the .....
46. Language that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and personification for poetic effect rather than for precise, factual meaning
47. According to William Shakespeare, the world is compared to .....
48. "Dear God!" is an exclamation by the poet as an expression of
49. Shakespearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme and structure as Italian sonnets.
50. Two consecutive lines of poetry
51. What does Shakespeare mean when he says:"every far from far sometime declines"
52. What is another name for an Italian sonnet?
53. He spoke very slowly. What is very in this sentence?
54. What country did she choose to live in with her husband?
55. The number of syllables in a line of poetry and how they are said is the poem's .....
56. Sonnets are often written in
57. ..... occurs when the reader knows something that a character does not know.
58. What is an understatement?
59. What is the function of the volta in a sonnet?
60. What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
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