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Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which type of poetry is considered to be challenging to write due to the many restrictions (line length, rhyme scheme, and rhythm)?
2. The woman looked angrily at her. What is angrily in this sentence?
3. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABABBCBCCDCDEE
4. How many feet are in each line of iambic pentameter?
5. Common subjects in Shakespeare's sonnets are ..... and .....
6. Which of the following poets ends his sonnets with a couplet?
7. Quatrain:8 line stanza
8. A Shakespearean sonnet always has ..... quatrains and a final couplet
9. Failing to make progress or be successful.
10. Rhyme scheme:For a Spanish sonnet
11. What do sonnets end with?
12. How many quatrains (four-line stanzas) are there in a Shakespearean sonnet? (a)
13. Soneto de ingles/ shakespeariano what is the rhyme pattern
14. What's a metre? (in the context of a poem).
15. From which period does the sonnet originate?
16. What is the type of sonnet written by Francesco Petrarca?
17. What is the structure like?
18. Similar sounds between the words or the endings of words
19. Sonnets can have a varying number of stanzas, although they are usually broken up into quatrains (4 line stanzas)
20. Metaphor, simile, hyperbole
21. Shakespeare stopped writing plays and started writing sonnets because .....
22. A collection of lines that function like a paragraph in a poem
23. Which line from Shakespeare's sonnet 116 best states the speaker's concept of love?
24. The ff. ideas are true about the sonnet 'On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three EXCEPT .....
25. Which type of poetry builds toward one idea (in 12 lines) throughout the poem but then changes to a different idea (in the last two lines) at the end?
26. What is poetic meter?
27. What are the typical themes of Shakespeare's sonnets?
28. What is another term for the "turn" in a sonnet?
29. What figure of speech uses human attributes to nonhuman subjects?
30. In Sonnet 43 the poet calls attention to "I love thee" through the use of what literary element?
31. Sonnets follow a strict rhyme scheme.
32. ..... occurs when there is a contrast between what the reader expects and what actually happens
33. The big, bad bear boldly bares it's teeth at all the baby bunnies by the bushes. This sentence is an example of a(n) .....
34. 8 lines in a stanza is called a/an
35. A great technique, used by ballads and other poetic forms, to help reinforce the main point or theme is .....
36. What is the central idea for Sonnet 116?
37. The first six lines of Sonnet 30 express which of the following views of love?
38. Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)-paints a clear picture in the reader's mind.
39. Rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is a characteristic of sonnets
40. Type of metaphor in which objects are presented as if they were human
41. True or False:William Shakespeare's popularity contributed to making literature and theater the most popular forms of art and leisure at this time.
42. What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's go to poetry form?
43. Which stanza in an English sonnet introduces a problem/situation or asks a question?
44. Which poem is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet?
45. To whom were his sonnets written?
46. When Shakespeare says:My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; This is an example of:
47. What do we call a change in tone, subject, or theme between the second and fourth quatrains of a sonnet?
48. Which poetry type introduces characters, setting, and possible conflict (usually in the first stanza)?
49. In Shakespearean dramas, a/an ..... is when a character says something unexpected or employs sarcasm.
50. Which word of small phrase is NOT an example of an iambic rhythm?
51. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a much more pleasing sound:This means .....
52. Where is the final message of a sonnet found?
53. What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet?
54. A humorous play on words, possibly via homophones.
55. What topics are used in a sonnet?
56. Who answers Milton's question: "Doth God exact day labor, light denied?"
57. The third quatrain of the sonnet is there to
58. How many lines are in the sestet section of a sonnet?
59. The attitude of the writer toward the topic or subject
60. How many feet are in a line written in tetrameter?
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