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Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. How many syllables are in a line of a sonnet?
2. True or False:The two types of syllables we talked about are stressed and unstressed.
3. Which theme is commonly explored in Shakespearean sonnets?
4. Classic sonnets normally have the following components:
5. Sonnets are usually .....
6. Shakespeare's love is not true.
7. How is a Spenserian sonnet different from a Petrarchan sonnet?
8. What is the arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase called?
9. In lines 9-13 of Sonnet 30, the speaker implies she might
10. What's the rhyme scheme of a limerick?
11. Which of the following best illustrates a trochee?
12. A group of 6 lines in a sonnet is called a/an
13. Satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full.
14. How many lines per stanza/paragraph in a sonnet?
15. How many iambs in a line?
16. 2 rhymed lines at the end of a sonnet is called a
17. Which of Shakespeare's children died at a young age?
18. How does the sonnet form affect the content of the poem?
19. What is the basic form of a sonnet?
20. How many lines does a sonnet have
21. In Petrarch's sonnet 169, what is his main problem?
22. Iambic is a pattern of .....
23. Although a sonnet contains only one stanza, its structure has ..... 'parts'.
24. Giving human qualities to a thing or abstraction; for example, "The kettle sang on the hearth, " or "After the victory, freedom held its head high in the nation."
25. Which is the best paraphrase of this line from Spenser's Sonnet 35? All this world's glory seemeth vain to me .....
26. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and rhyming
27. How many stanzas are in a traditional villanelle?
28. What is a repeating line of poetry called?
29. The beauty of the morning is compared to a
30. A sonnet has a 'twist' at the end that makes the poem rude or funny.
31. One set of stressed and unstressed syllables is called
32. Shakespeare's love has sweet breath.
33. The word sonnet comes from .....
34. What does the hyperbole, "I have a million things to do today" mean?
35. The second part of the Petrarchan sonnet is known as
36. True or False:The upper class consisted of nobles and gentry.
37. What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 in these final lines? If this be error, and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
38. What is poetry without a consistent meter, rhyme, or stanza length called?
39. What does iambic pentameter help to create in a sonnet?
40. A long narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of a heroic figure
41. The Shakespearean sonnet can also be called the
42. It was terribly hot this afternoon. What is the word terribly in this sentence?
43. Which of the following words is NOT considered a shift word?
44. What type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDCDCD and is made up of on octave and a sestet?
45. What is the speaker's problem that is revealed in the three quatrains of Sonnet 29?
46. What is unusual about the woman Petrarch wrote his sonnets about?
47. Shakespeare is said to have written ..... plays and ..... sonnets.
48. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.
49. In Petrarch's sonnet 292 what has happened?
50. All of Shakespearean Sonnets rhyme.
51. A iambic pentameter has ten feet
52. What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet?
53. The speaker is in the city of
54. What 20th century American poet is known for her sonnets?
55. What is it that makes a set of lines?
56. What is the rhythm/meter of this line? "Kings and queens do often sleep here."
57. What is it called when a line has 10 syllables?
58. The rhyme scheme of the first eight lines of sonnet 43 is
59. The first twelve lines of a sonnet .....
60. Translate:He hath taken o'er th' kingdom.
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