This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 35 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison between unlike items using the words like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. What is the typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Abab;cdcde;efef;gg. B) Aabb; ccdd; eeff. C) Aaab;bbbc;cccd;dd. D) Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abab;cdcde;efef;gg. 3. How many lines is a sonnet meant to have? A) Sixteen lines. B) Fourteen lines. C) Twelve lines. D) Ten lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fourteen lines. 4. What is the purpose of the octave in a sonnet? A) To introduce the main idea. B) To change the rhyme scheme. C) To conclude the poem. D) To summarize the argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To introduce the main idea. 5. Sonnets are written in iambic tetrameter A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, " is the opening line to A) 3. B) 18. C) 34. D) 127. E) 130. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 7. An Italian sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet have the same number of lines A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. How many quatrains are there in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 9. The theme of a sonnet can be about- A) Love. B) Nature. C) People. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 10. Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of five syllables. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. What is the traditional meter used in sonnets? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Trochaic tetrameter. C) Anapestic hexameter. D) Dactylic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 12. The poem is written by A) S T Coleridge. B) William Blake. C) Williams Wordsworth. D) H W Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Williams Wordsworth. 13. A sonnet is consisted of ..... A) 16 lines. B) 15 lines. C) 14 lines. D) 10 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14 lines. 14. What is a sestet (the 2nd part of an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes a ballad has these)? A) Rhyming lines of 3. B) Rhyming lines of 4. C) Rhyming lines of 6. D) Rhyming lines of 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming lines of 6. 15. What does a speaker of a sonnet often start the poem with? A) A problem, question or emotion. B) A problem, solution or answer. C) A question, a fact, and a statistic. D) An emotion and the causes and effects of that emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A problem, question or emotion. 16. What is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" A) Sonnet 18. B) Sonnet 34. C) Sonnet 99. D) Sonnet 155. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet 18. 17. Feel or show triumphant elation or jubilation. A) Sojourn. B) Exults. C) Sated. D) Languishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exults. 18. Which poetry type is usually written in quatrains (with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABCB) or sestets (with a rhyme scheme of ABCBDB)? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 19. What is the name of the meter Shakespeare uses that sounds much like a heartbeat? A) Iambic Tetrameter. B) Trochaic Pentameter. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Iambic Trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic Pentameter. 20. In a Shakespearean drama, a humorous episode to offset seriousness of previous scene is called ..... A) Comic relief. B) Humorous moment. C) Contradictions. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comic relief. ← 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