This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 25 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Soneto de ingles/ shakespeariano has how many syllables in each verse A) 10. B) 16. C) 14. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 2. Which line reveals that the poem's speaker is sending an email? A) From Robert B. @ mailexcite dot com. B) Please find herewith as proof of my esteem. C) To unwrap blooms and place in vase use Drag. D) Petals won't wilt to husks nor leaves to slime. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From Robert B. @ mailexcite dot com. 3. Sonnet 130 displays strong feelings of love, despite the mistress's lack of physical beauty. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. What makes an English/Shakespearean sonnet? A) Octave and a sestet. B) Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. C) Two quatrains and a sestet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. 5. How many syllables are in this line:By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; A) 11. B) 10. C) 9. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 6. Sonnet 116 presents an ideal picture of love that is loyal and persevering. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What is consonant rhyme A) Verses that end in the same syllable lostcreidoperseguido. B) Verses that end in the same vowelholapocasopa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verses that end in the same syllable lostcreidoperseguido. 8. Alliteration is repetition of A) A word. B) A phrase. C) An initial consonant sound. D) What happens when you throw trash out the window. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An initial consonant sound. 9. In Spenser's sonnet number 30, what power does love have? A) To make the world go around. B) To stop people in the name of it. C) To alter the course of nature. D) To make someone warm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To alter the course of nature. 10. What are the "leaves" in these lines from Spenser's Sonnet 1? Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands, / Which hold my life in their dead doing might, / Shall handle you ..... A) Tree leaves the woman is holding. B) The woman's hair. C) The pages containing the speaker's poems. D) The speaker's hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pages containing the speaker's poems. 11. How many syllables in each line of a sonnet? A) 14. B) 10. C) 100. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 12. Which of the following is NOT another name for a Shakespearean sonnet A) Elizabethan. B) Italian. C) English. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italian. 13. Which type of poetry is defined as having 19 lines, split into 5 tercets and a quatrain? A) Free verse. B) Slam. C) Villanelles. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Villanelles. 14. Shakespeare's sonnets focused on friendship, fleeting time, and ..... A) Regret. B) Despair. C) Hope. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 15. The Rhyme Scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet is A) ABABCDCDEFEFGG. B) ABABBCBCCDEE. C) ABBABCCBCDDCDD. D) ABBACDDCEFFEGG. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABABCDCDEFEFGG. 16. In Spenser's sonnet number 30, how many questions does the speaker ask? A) 6. B) 14. C) 8. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 17. What does Milton believe is the task he should have made more progress toward at this point? A) Preaching sermons. B) Singing songs. C) Teaching children. D) Writing poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writing poems. 18. A pair of lines that rhyme which end the sonnet. A) Figurative language. B) Rhyming couplet. C) Time. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyming couplet. 19. What does Penta-mean? A) Six. B) Four. C) Five. D) Eight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Five. 20. What is the meter of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Iambic octameter. B) Iambic tetrameter. C) Iambic kilometer. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. ← 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