Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 6 (20 MCQs)

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1. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet typically rhyme and are called .....
2. Which type of poetry allows the poet to choose any form?
3. How many lines are in a quatrain?
4. A 14 lined, rhymed poem with a specific rhyme scheme is called a
5. A movement during the Renaissance that emphasized secular ideas and concerns, based on classical studies
6. The ABAB rhyme scheme lends itself to bouncing between pairs of ideas.
7. Who did English poets borrow the sonnet form from?
8. In Sidney's Sonnet 31, what does the moon symbolize?
9. How words are in a line of iambic pentameter
10. Soliloquies help us to understand .....
11. We performed badly. What is the word badly in this sentence?
12. A sonnet is split into an.....-line stanza and a.....-line stanza
13. Verse without rhyme yet in iambic pentameter is .....
14. What type of poem includes an iambic pentameter rhythm?
15. A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph/ verse)
16. The heroic couplet contains the .....
17. Language that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and personification for poetic effect rather than for precise, factual meaning
18. According to William Shakespeare, the world is compared to .....
19. "Dear God!" is an exclamation by the poet as an expression of
20. Shakespearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme and structure as Italian sonnets.