This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Shakespeare's sonnet 29, when the speaker thinks of his love what wouldn't he do? A) Stop loving her. B) Change a thing about her. C) Trade places with a king. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trade places with a king. 2. A series of two or three syllables in a specific pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. A) Trochaic foot. B) Iambic foot. C) Metrical foot. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metrical foot. 3. In a Shakespearean sonnet, what purpose does the closing rhymed couplet often serve? A) A shift in tone. B) A resolution or conclusion. C) Introduction of a new theme. D) A twist in the narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A resolution or conclusion. 4. The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes is an example of what type of poetry? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 5. What is the term for the poet's choice of words? A) Grammar. B) Imagery. C) Syntax. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 6. A stanza of eight lines in a poem A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Octave. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Octave. 7. In "Sonnet VII", Milton is reflecting on his life now that he has reached the age of ..... A) 23. B) 21. C) 22. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 23. 8. How many syllables does iambic tetrameter have? A) 8. B) 6. C) 4. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 9. What is the purpose of the volta in a sonnet? A) To conclude the poem. B) To summarize the argument. C) To introduce a change in tone or perspective. D) To change the rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To introduce a change in tone or perspective. 10. Traditional Sonnets include ..... A) No rhyme scheme, 6 lines. B) An unlimited number of lines, some rhyme. C) Iambic pentameter. D) A rhyme scheme, Iambic Pentameter, 3 Quatrains, 1 Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A rhyme scheme, Iambic Pentameter, 3 Quatrains, 1 Couplet. 11. A Spenserian Sonnet and a Shakespearean Sonnet only differ in A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Number of Lines. C) Name. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 12. Shakespeare wrote in mostly ..... pentameter A) Foot. B) Stressed. C) Meter. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic. 13. Shakespeare titled his sonnets using A) Italian phrases. B) Nature imagery. C) Numbers. D) Metaphors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Numbers. 14. Is a variation on the Italian sonnet tradition? They have 14 lines divided into 4 subgroups:3 quatrains and a couplet. Each line is typically ten syllables, phrased in iambic pentameter. A) Miltonic. B) Shakespearean. C) Petrarchan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean. 15. Which of the following lines is a simile from Sonnet 130? A) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. B) Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. C) My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. D) And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. 16. What is the theme of Sonnet 29? A) The speaker must learn to live with his disappointments. B) The memory of the speaker's beloved makes up for all of life's troubles. C) Life's greatest disappointment is to live alone. D) Even a hopeless love is better than any other experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The memory of the speaker's beloved makes up for all of life's troubles. 17. True or False:The English Renaissance started in the 19th century. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 18. In Sonnet 12, what connection does the speaker make between the change of seasons and the loved one's beauty? A) As the seasons change, time passes, and we all age. With age, comes the loss of beauty. B) As we age, just as with the seasons, we get more beautiful. C) With age comes the loss of innocence and motivation. D) As the seasons changes, so too do our emotions:spring makes us happy, and winter makes us sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As the seasons change, time passes, and we all age. With age, comes the loss of beauty. 19. When Shakespeare says:Coral is far more red, than her lips red. This is an example of ..... A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A metaphor. 20. Which statement most accurately describes the word choices in this line?The surf brushed the shore like a zealous housemaid's broom. A) Personification attributes human qualities to a broom. B) A simile compares a surfer at the beach to a servant cleaning a home. C) A simile compares the motion of waves to sweeping a house. D) A metaphor compares housecleaning to the passage of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A simile compares the motion of waves to sweeping a house. 21. The rhythm of iambic pentameter is similar to a A) Heart beat. B) Skip a beat. C) Drum beat. D) 808 beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heart beat. 22. Sonnets have a set structure. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 23. In poetry, five feet are called ..... A) Pentameter. B) Syllables. C) Stumbling blocks. D) Extra words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pentameter. 24. What do we call an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable? It is sometimes compared to a heartbeat. A) Quatrain. B) Penta. C) Couplet. D) Iamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iamb. 25. The life lesson learned from reading a literary work. A) Conflict. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Adversary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 26. What is a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable? A) Centimeter duo. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Decimeters. D) Amphitheater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 27. A type of sonnet that contains 3 quatrains and a couplet is called a/an ..... sonnet A) English. B) Spenserian. C) Petrarchan. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English. 28. As an "anti-Petrarchan" poem (which means against poets subject matter of the time), Sonnet 130 makes fun of Petrarchan A) Women. B) Similes. C) Sonnet cycles. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 29. Which lines contain an example of enjambment? A) Lines 5 and 6. B) Lines 7 and 8. C) Lines 8 and 9. D) Lines 13 and 14. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lines 5 and 6. 30. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is the beginning line of sonnet A) LV. B) CXVI. C) CXXX. D) XVIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) XVIII. 31. The final six lines are called A) Merry Go Round. B) Turn. C) Sestet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sestet. 32. What makes a couplet? A) Four lines. B) Two lines. C) Three lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two lines. 33. Shakespearean Sonnets are written in ..... A) Iambic pentameter. B) Foot rhythm. C) Iambic trimeter. D) Penta iambic meter. E) Iambic quatrometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 34. What is part prison/ part panic closet? A) Life. B) Prison. C) The sonnets. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sonnets. 35. Wordsworth says that the daffodils "stretched in never-ending line" .from I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, Wordsworth WHAT KIND OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS SHOWN BY THIS EXAGGERATION? A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 36. A stanza of six lines in a poem A) Pentagon. B) Sestet. C) Quatrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sestet. 37. What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 when he says "Love's not Times' fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/ Within his bending sickle's compass come" ? A) Love doesn't always last a long time. B) Getting closer to death puts a strain on love. C) Love doesn't change with time even if beauty fades. D) Love causes cheeks to get rosy and lips to be red. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love doesn't change with time even if beauty fades. 38. The rules that govern how a poem is structured ..... A) Poetic form. B) Stanza. C) Line break. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetic form. 39. A quatrain contains A) 3 lines of poetry. B) 4 lines of poetry. C) 2 lines of poetry. D) 5 lines of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4 lines of poetry. 40. What does 'sonnet' mean? A) Young swan. B) Inscription. C) Little song. D) Scroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little song. 41. True or False:A Petrarchan sonnet is made up of 14 lines. The first 8 lines are part of the octave (octet) and the last 6 lines are part of the sestet, (sextet). A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 42. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called A) Blank verse. B) Rap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 43. Shakespeare's sonnets we studied all share the same A) Theme, tone, and form. B) Meter, couplets, and motif. C) Form, meter, and rhyme scheme. D) Speaker, subject, and metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form, meter, and rhyme scheme. 44. Which of the following is a rhyme scheme of a sonnet? A) ABCD ABCD CDEF GG. B) AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD YES. C) ABCD EFGH IJKL M N. D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 45. A general time period stretching from roughly the fourteenth century to as late as the seventeenth century when the arts and intellectual activity flourished in Europe A) DaVinci. B) Italy. C) Renaissance. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renaissance. 46. All of the following are examples of slant rhyme EXCEPT ..... A) The players gonna play play play play play / And the haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate / I'm just gonna shake shake shake, shake it off. B) Stop! Collaborate and listen / Ice is back with a brand new invention. C) We're halfway there / Living on a prayer / Take my hand and we'll make it I swear / Oh! Living on a prayer. D) If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it / Don't be mad once you see that he want it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We're halfway there / Living on a prayer / Take my hand and we'll make it I swear / Oh! Living on a prayer. 47. Who is known for writing the famous sonnet sequence 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'? A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) John Keats. C) William Shakespeare. D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 48. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABABCDCDEFEFGG A) Shakespearean. B) Spenserian. C) Petrarchan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespearean. 49. When were the first sonnets supposedly written? A) 16th Century. B) 15th Century. C) 13th Century. D) 14th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14th Century. 50. Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets to a blonde lady A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. Which poetry type has a refrain (A1 and A2)? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Villanelles. 52. And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare. This means ..... A) He believes his love is more true and pure than any than any deceptive insincere demonstration of love he has seen. B) He thinks his love is stranger than any phony or superficial demonstration of love he has seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He believes his love is more true and pure than any than any deceptive insincere demonstration of love he has seen. 53. Which type of poetry usually focuses on intense or dark topics? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Villanelles. 54. How many syllables are in a line of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) 5. B) 10. C) 12. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 55. Iambic pentameter refers to a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 56. These lines are from Spenser's Sonnet 1:When ye behold that angel's blessed look, / My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss. Restating this thought in a simpler way is an example of what? A) Paraphrasing. B) Inferring. C) Summarizing. D) Predicting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paraphrasing. 57. In Sonnet 106, Shakespeare talks about his beloved's beauty. What does he mean when he says we "lack tongues to praise" ? A) We do not like to make compliments. B) We do not say certain things out loud. C) We are no longer able to say romantic things. D) We do not have the skill to describe her beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We do not have the skill to describe her beauty. 58. Besides the summer, what other elements does Shakespeare compare "you" with? A) Temperature and ocean. B) Wind and sun. C) Flowers and seeds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wind and sun. 59. What do we call the person speaking in the poem? A) Speaker. B) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 60. What makes a Petrarchan sonnet? A) Octave and a sestet. B) Three Quatrains. C) Two octaves. D) None of above. 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