This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rhyme scheme:For a Spanish sonnet A) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE. B) ABAB ABAB CDE CDE. C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE. 2. What do sonnets end with? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 3. How many quatrains (four-line stanzas) are there in a Shakespearean sonnet? (a) A) One. B) Two. C) A Three. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Three. 4. Soneto de ingles/ shakespeariano what is the rhyme pattern A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. B) ABAB CEFE EFEF BG. C) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE. D) ACAD CBCB EFEF GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 5. What's a metre? (in the context of a poem). A) The 'length' of a poem that determines how long a paragraph is. B) The 'rythm' of the poem that determines which syllables are stressed. C) The 'intonation' of a poem that determines which words are stressed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 'rythm' of the poem that determines which syllables are stressed. 6. From which period does the sonnet originate? A) Elizabethan period. B) Jacobean period. C) Renaissance period. D) Romantic period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renaissance period. 7. What is the type of sonnet written by Francesco Petrarca? A) Francescan sonnet. B) Petrarchan sonnet. C) Petra's sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarchan sonnet. 8. Shakespeare's sonnets rhyme scheme is A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. B) ABAB ABAB CDE CDE. C) ABBA ABBA CDC CDC. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 9. What is the structure like? A) 3 Quatrains. B) 5 Quatrains. C) 4 Quatrains. D) 6 Quatrains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3 Quatrains. 10. Similar sounds between the words or the endings of words A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 11. Sonnets can have a varying number of stanzas, although they are usually broken up into quatrains (4 line stanzas) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Metaphor, simile, hyperbole A) Examples of literal language. B) Examples of figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Examples of figurative language. 13. Shakespeare stopped writing plays and started writing sonnets because ..... A) He wanted to do something different. B) People started to get bored with his plays. C) The plague closed the theaters and he needed money. D) He wanted to reach more people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The plague closed the theaters and he needed money. 14. A collection of lines that function like a paragraph in a poem A) Rhyme scheme. B) Stanza. C) Meter. D) Quatrain. E) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 15. Which line from Shakespeare's sonnet 116 best states the speaker's concept of love? A) "Love is not love". B) "It is an ever-fixed mark". C) "It is a star to every wandering bark". D) "no man every loved". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "It is an ever-fixed mark". 16. The ff. ideas are true about the sonnet 'On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three EXCEPT ..... A) It was written on December 9, 1608. B) It is a devotional sonnet of a man of God. C) It is the poet's reflections on his late maturing. D) It was written in response to an acquaintance's note on his 'studying'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was written on December 9, 1608. 17. Which type of poetry builds toward one idea (in 12 lines) throughout the poem but then changes to a different idea (in the last two lines) at the end? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnets. 18. What is the rhyme scheme in a sonnet? A) Abab, cdcd, efef, gg. B) Basb, Dhaif, Guyh, J. C) Aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg. D) Abcd, efgh, ijkl, mm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abab, cdcd, efef, gg. 19. What is poetic meter? A) The layout of the poem on the page. B) Something only associated with sonnets. C) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. D) A literary term to describe the length of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. 20. What are the typical themes of Shakespeare's sonnets? A) Love and youth. B) Nature. C) Politics. D) War and loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love and youth. ← 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 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books