This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet typically rhyme and are called ..... A) A deadly duo. B) A two-two. C) A rhyming couplet. D) A rhyming duet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A rhyming couplet. 2. Which type of poetry allows the poet to choose any form? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 3. How many lines are in a quatrain? A) 4. B) 14. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 4. A 14 lined, rhymed poem with a specific rhyme scheme is called a A) Lyric. B) Octave. C) Sonnet. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 5. A movement during the Renaissance that emphasized secular ideas and concerns, based on classical studies A) Renaissance. B) Naturalism. C) Humanism. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humanism. 6. The ABAB rhyme scheme lends itself to bouncing between pairs of ideas. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Who did English poets borrow the sonnet form from? A) Francesco Petrarch. B) William Shakespeare. C) John Donne. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Francesco Petrarch. 8. In Sidney's Sonnet 31, what does the moon symbolize? A) Lost chances. B) Natural beauty. C) All life on earth. D) His feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His feelings. 9. How words are in a line of iambic pentameter A) 5. B) 10. C) 2. D) 4. E) No set amount. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) No set amount. 10. Soliloquies help us to understand ..... A) A character's appearance. B) The climax of a story. C) Nothing. D) A character's thoughts and a problem they may be facing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A character's thoughts and a problem they may be facing. 11. We performed badly. What is the word badly in this sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. 12. A sonnet is split into an.....-line stanza and a.....-line stanza A) 6, 10. B) 8, 10. C) 6, 8. D) 8, 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8, 6. 13. Verse without rhyme yet in iambic pentameter is ..... A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Prose. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 14. What type of poem includes an iambic pentameter rhythm? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnets. 15. A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph/ verse) A) Stanza. B) Figurative language. C) Parody. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 16. The heroic couplet contains the ..... A) Conclusion. B) Thesis. C) Antithesis. D) Turn of thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conclusion. 17. Language that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and personification for poetic effect rather than for precise, factual meaning A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Humanism. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 18. According to William Shakespeare, the world is compared to ..... A) House. B) Room. C) River. D) Stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage. 19. "Dear God!" is an exclamation by the poet as an expression of A) Disgust. B) Shame. C) Wonder. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wonder. 20. Shakespearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme and structure as Italian sonnets. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← 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 7Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books