Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 12 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a group of lines in a poem called?

Correct Answer: D) Stanza.

2. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and rhyming

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

3. How many stanzas are in a traditional villanelle?

Correct Answer: C) 6.

4. What is a repeating line of poetry called?

Correct Answer: C) A refrain.

5. The beauty of the morning is compared to a

Correct Answer: C) A garment.

6. A sonnet has a 'twist' at the end that makes the poem rude or funny.

Correct Answer: B) False.

7. One set of stressed and unstressed syllables is called

Correct Answer: C) Foot.

8. Shakespeare's love has sweet breath.

Correct Answer: B) False.

9. The word sonnet comes from .....

Correct Answer: D) The Italian word sonetto meaning little song.

10. What does the hyperbole, "I have a million things to do today" mean?

Correct Answer: D) There is a lot to do today.

11. The second part of the Petrarchan sonnet is known as

Correct Answer: A) Sestet.

12. True or False:The upper class consisted of nobles and gentry.

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. 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.

Correct Answer: A) If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won't believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love.

14. What is poetry without a consistent meter, rhyme, or stanza length called?

Correct Answer: D) Free verse.

15. What does iambic pentameter help to create in a sonnet?

Correct Answer: D) Rhythm.

16. A long narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of a heroic figure

Correct Answer: B) Epic Poem.

17. The Shakespearean sonnet can also be called the

Correct Answer: A) English Sonnet.

18. It was terribly hot this afternoon. What is the word terribly in this sentence?

Correct Answer: D) Adverb.

19. Which of the following words is NOT considered a shift word?

Correct Answer: E) To.

20. What type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDCDCD and is made up of on octave and a sestet?

Correct Answer: B) Italian/Petrarchan.