This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 30 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The themes of sonnets typically express strong emotion such as love. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. An example of an oxymoron would be A) A shepherd watching his sheep. B) Pairing fire and ice. C) Comparing ones love to a summer day. D) Comparing ones love to ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pairing fire and ice. 3. According to the speaker in Sonnet 73 ( "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" ), how will his aging affect the person he addresses? A) It will make that person grieve for him. B) It will make that person love him more. C) It will make that person forget about him. D) It will make that person understand him better. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will make that person love him more. 4. What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet? A) THE FATHER. B) CDCDCD. C) EFEF. D) GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EFEF. 5. Language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses, that makes readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things in their imagination; for example, "the coal-black night, " "the stinging cold, " "the rapping and tapping of rain on the roof" A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. In literature, the character who antagonizes the main character, considered the "bad guy." A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Central character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 7. What type of meter is used in sonnets? A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Trochaic tetrameter. C) Dactylic hexameter. D) Octameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic Pentameter. 8. The continuation of a sentence without a pause (punctuation) beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. A) Satire. B) Enjambment. C) Imagery. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 9. What is a device in literature where an object represents an idea. A) Representation. B) Objectivism. C) Symbolism. D) Idealism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 10. The imaginary person who speaks the words of a poem, not necessarily the poet A) Speaker. B) Style. C) Personification. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 11. Which of the following phrases from Sonnet 116 best supports Shakespeare's message in the sonnet that love will never change? A) "It is an ever fixed mark". B) "the edge of doom". C) "his bending sickle's compass". D) 'whose worth's unknown". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "It is an ever fixed mark". 12. Which type of poetry is usually written in common meter (alternating lines of tetrameter [8 syllables per line] and trimeter [6 syllables per line]? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 13. In general, 14 line poem with a set rhyme scheme is a ..... A) Shakespearean Sonnet. B) Spencerian Sonnet. C) Petrarchan Sonnet. D) Italian Sonnet. E) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Sonnet. 14. "My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is the opening line to A) 3. B) 18. C) 34. D) 127. E) 130. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 130. 15. How many syllables does iambic pentameter have? A) 4. B) 6. C) 8. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10. 16. Sonnets have..... lines A) 13. B) 15. C) 14. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 17. What topic did Shakespeare's sonnets focus on? A) Death. B) Romance. C) Individuality. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romance. 18. In Spenser's Sonnet 1, the speaker says the pages in his love's hands are "Like captives trembling at the victor's sight." What theme does this line support? A) The speaker's poem is not worthy of his love. B) The speaker is a hopeless captive at the mercy of his love. C) The speaker's beloved is cruel to treat him the way she does. D) The speaker's beloved is a better poet than he is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker is a hopeless captive at the mercy of his love. 19. "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day " is the opening line to A) 3. B) 18. C) 34. D) 127. E) 130. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 34. 20. What type of rhyme does a spanish sonnet have A) Rhyme. B) Lima anso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. ← 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