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Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 5 (60 MCQs)

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1. How many lines are there in the sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet? (a)
2. When Shakespeare says:If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.This is an example of:
3. What is not personified in the poem?
4. Implicit comparison between two things
5. The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet are called .....
6. Where does the turn occur in a Shakespearean sonnet?
7. Which statement best explains how the structure of "Interflora" contributes to the meaning of the poem?
8. AShakespearean sonnet mostly follows which rhyme scheme?
9. What makes a quatrain?
10. How many lines are in a couplet?
11. What is the typical rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
12. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in .....
13. How does the use of the sonnet form affect the poem's style?
14. What is a "rhyming couplet" ?
15. Which statement most accurately describes the word choices in these four lines?The autumn leaves Rustle from the trees:First gold, then red, Then brown, then dead.
16. A literary device used to show contrast between appearance and reality.
17. Which of the following is NOT a type of sonnet?
18. Come all ye lads draw near by me that I be not foresaken This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my living has been taken. This is an example of a .....
19. A rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines.
20. What are the two types of sonnets we covered?
21. The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet
22. Which Italian poet is credited with establishing the sonnet as a major poetic form?
23. Ballads are part of the oral tradition.
24. Shakespeare's sonnets have what kind of rhyme scheme?
25. What is the main characteristic of a villanelle?
26. What type of poetry has no set rhyme scheme, rhythm, or line length?
27. A poem of 14 lines typically having 10 syllables per lines.
28. What is the structure of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet?
29. "Love's not Time's fool" is an example of .....
30. The last six lines contain the
31. Petrarchan sonnets and Shakepearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme
32. Who was the popular English playwright and poet who lived in the 16th century who wrote 154 Sonnets?
33. In a sonnet, each line should consist of
34. This large theater built by Shakespeare in 1599 fit commoners on the ground and the wealthy on the balconies.
35. What is the name of the last 2 lines of a sonnet?
36. Shakespearean sonnets have a rhymed couplet at the end.
37. How is a spanish sonnet set up
38. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
39. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called the
40. "To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."Why does the speaker say that his beloved's name, as well as their love, will last forever?
41. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything used ..... sound device.
42. "Her phone burst into flames like a Samsung" is alluding to .....
43. All Sonnets sonnet have the same number of lines.
44. How many lines must a sonnet have?
45. According to the speaker, in what way are the on-line flowers better than real ones?
46. In the poem, gym & crow is a pun on?
47. What is "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" ?
48. Look at this excerpt from a Shakespearean sonnet: "That time of year thou may'st in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang" How is Shakespeare using figurative language in these lines?
49. What type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet?
50. Sestet:6 line room
51. Is this a sonnet or a villanelle? ..... Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?They took my lover's tallness off to war, Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guessWhat I can use an empty heart-cup for.He won't be coming back here any more.Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knewWhen he went walking grandly out that doorThat my sweet love would have to be untrue.Would have to be untrue. Would have to courtCoquettish death, whose impudent and strangePossessive arms and beauty (of a sort)Can make a hard man hesitate-and change.And he will be the one to stammer, "Yes." Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
52. What does the word sonnet mean in Italian?
53. TYPICALLY the rhyme scheme should be abab cdcd efef gg
54. An English (or Shakespearean) sonnet usually ends with .....
55. A state of rest, sleep, or tranquility.
56. Shakespearean sonnets are typically associated with .....
57. ..... is a quality, trait, or characteristic of the tragic hero that leads to his or her downfall.
58. How do the speaker's feelings change between the beginning and the end of Sonnet 29?
59. When Shakespeare says:My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red. Shakespeare means .....
60. How does this poem differ from traditional sonnets?
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