This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Two consecutive lines of poetry A) Diction. B) Couplet. C) Epic Poem. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 2. What does Shakespeare mean when he says:"every far from far sometime declines" A) Flowers fall at some point. B) Beauty disappears at some point. C) Time ends at some point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beauty disappears at some point. 3. What is another name for an Italian sonnet? A) English. B) Shakespearean. C) Little Italy. D) Petrarchan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Petrarchan. 4. He spoke very slowly. What is very in this sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 5. What country did she choose to live in with her husband? A) Majorca. B) Italy. C) Spain. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 6. The number of syllables in a line of poetry and how they are said is the poem's ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Stanza. C) Meter. D) Iamb. E) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 7. Sonnets are often written in A) Iambic heptameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Free verse. D) Trochaic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 8. ..... occurs when the reader knows something that a character does not know. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 9. What is an understatement? A) A comparison using "like" or "as" . B) A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics. C) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. D) An expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. 10. What is the function of the volta in a sonnet? A) Conclusion. B) Shift or turn in thought. C) Introduction. D) Rhymed couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shift or turn in thought. 11. What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet. B) Quatrain, quatrain, couplet, couplet. C) At eight, it stops. D) Octave, octave, stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet. 12. Which type of poetry is considered to be challenging to write due to the many restrictions (line length, rhyme scheme, and rhythm)? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnets. 13. The woman looked angrily at her. What is angrily in this sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. 14. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABABBCBCCDCDEE A) Shakespearean. B) Spenserian. C) Petrarchan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spenserian. 15. How many feet are in each line of iambic pentameter? A) 10. B) 5. C) 8. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 16. Common subjects in Shakespeare's sonnets are ..... and ..... A) Love and taxes. B) Love and England. C) English and history. D) Time and love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time and love. 17. Which of the following poets ends his sonnets with a couplet? A) Ronsard. B) Petrarch. C) Dante Alighieri. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespeare. 18. Quatrain:8 line stanza A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. A Shakespearean sonnet always has ..... quatrains and a final couplet A) One. B) Two. C) FIve. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three. 20. Failing to make progress or be successful. A) Languishing. B) Console. C) Repose. D) Commend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Languishing. ← 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 8Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books