Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 15 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which Italian poet is credited with establishing the sonnet as a major poetic form?
2. Ballads are part of the oral tradition.
3. Shakespeare's sonnets have what kind of rhyme scheme?
4. What is the main characteristic of a villanelle?
5. What type of poetry has no set rhyme scheme, rhythm, or line length?
6. A poem of 14 lines typically having 10 syllables per lines.
7. What is the structure of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet?
8. "Love's not Time's fool" is an example of .....
9. The last six lines contain the
10. Petrarchan sonnets and Shakepearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme
11. Who was the popular English playwright and poet who lived in the 16th century who wrote 154 Sonnets?
12. In a sonnet, each line should consist of
13. This large theater built by Shakespeare in 1599 fit commoners on the ground and the wealthy on the balconies.
14. What is the name of the last 2 lines of a sonnet?
15. Shakespearean sonnets have a rhymed couplet at the end.
16. How is a spanish sonnet set up
17. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
18. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called the
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?
20. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything used ..... sound device.