This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 15 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Italian poet is credited with establishing the sonnet as a major poetic form? A) Ronsard. B) Petrarch. C) Boccaccio. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarch. 2. Ballads are part of the oral tradition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Shakespeare's sonnets have what kind of rhyme scheme? A) Abba cddc effe gg. B) Abab cdcd efef gg. C) Abcd abcd abcd ee. D) Abab abab cdcd of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abab cdcd efef gg. 4. What is the main characteristic of a villanelle? A) It has a specific rhyme scheme. B) It has a lot of humor. C) It has a repeated refrain. D) It uses free verse. . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has a repeated refrain. 5. What type of poetry has no set rhyme scheme, rhythm, or line length? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 6. A poem of 14 lines typically having 10 syllables per lines. A) Sestet. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 7. What is the structure of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet? A) Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet. B) Quatrain, quatrain, couplet, couplet. C) Octave, quatrain, sestet. D) At eight, it stops. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At eight, it stops. 8. "Love's not Time's fool" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. The last six lines contain the A) Resolution. B) Theme. C) Exposition. D) Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution. 10. Petrarchan sonnets and Shakepearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 11. Who was the popular English playwright and poet who lived in the 16th century who wrote 154 Sonnets? A) Shakespeare. B) Chaucer. C) Waldon. D) Hinton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespeare. 12. In a sonnet, each line should consist of A) One syllables with two unstressed and three stressed syllables. B) Two syllables with three unstressed and four stressed syllables. C) Five syllables with ten unstressed and ten stressed syllables. D) Unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. 13. This large theater built by Shakespeare in 1599 fit commoners on the ground and the wealthy on the balconies. A) Pantages Theater. B) Broadway Theater. C) Queen's Theater. D) Globe Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Globe Theater. 14. What is the name of the last 2 lines of a sonnet? A) Triplet. B) Pentameter. C) Couplet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 15. Shakespearean sonnets have a rhymed couplet at the end. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. How is a spanish sonnet set up A) 2 quartets and 2 triplets. B) 2 quartets and 6 triplets. C) 3 quartets and 2 triplets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2 quartets and 2 triplets. 17. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABBA ABBA CDCDCD A) Shakespearean. B) Spenserian. C) Petrarchan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petrarchan. 18. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called the A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time. 19. "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? A) Because he has written about them in his poetry. B) Because they have become famous. C) Because songs about her virtues will be sung throughout eternity. D) Because the heavens will declare her glorious name. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he has written about them in his poetry. 20. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything used ..... sound device. A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 1Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 2Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 3Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 4Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 5Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 6Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 7Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books