This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 29 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is known for writing the famous sonnet sequence 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'? A) William Shakespeare. B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. C) John Keats. D) Percy Bysshe Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 2. 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. 3. When were the first sonnets supposedly written? A) 13th Century. B) 14th Century. C) 15th Century. D) 16th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th Century. 4. Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets to a blonde lady A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. 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. 6. What is a Catharsis? A) A bird. B) The process of releasing and providing relief from repressed emotions. C) A church such as a cathedral. D) The thing a caterpillar goes into to become a butterfly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of releasing and providing relief from repressed emotions. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. How many syllables are in a line of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) 5. B) 7. C) 10. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 10. 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. 11. 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) Predicting. B) Inferring. C) Paraphrasing. D) Summarizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paraphrasing. 12. 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 have the skill to describe her beauty. C) We are no longer able to say romantic things. D) We do not say certain things out loud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We do not have the skill to describe her beauty. 13. 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. 14. What do we call the person speaking in the poem? A) Speaker. B) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 15. What makes a Petrarchan sonnet? A) Octave and a sestet. B) Three Quatrains. C) Two octaves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave and a sestet. 16. What is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds called? A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 17. A couplet has how many lines? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. E) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 18. The speaker in Shakespeare's sonnet 130 could best be described as A) Mostly cruel but yet loving. B) Critical of his mistress's looks. C) Critical of his mistress in general. D) Realistic and critical of romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realistic and critical of romanticism. 19. The children ran quickly to the school. What is quickly in this sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. 20. In Sonnet 30, how would you characterize the ending? A) She is definitely leaving her lover. B) The ending is vague as to what she will do. C) She will leave him for another. D) She will marry him immediately. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ending is vague as to what she will do. ← 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