This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is another term for the "turn" in a sonnet? A) Time. B) Evolution. C) Spin. D) Spin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 2. What figure of speech uses human attributes to nonhuman subjects? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. In Sonnet 43 the poet calls attention to "I love thee" through the use of what literary element? A) Humor. B) Understatement. C) Persuasion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 4. Sonnets follow a strict rhyme scheme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. ..... occurs when there is a contrast between what the reader expects and what actually happens A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 6. The big, bad bear boldly bares it's teeth at all the baby bunnies by the bushes. This sentence is an example of a(n) ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 7. 8 lines in a stanza is called a/an A) Quatrain. B) Octave. C) Sestet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. 8. A great technique, used by ballads and other poetic forms, to help reinforce the main point or theme is ..... A) Rhythmn. B) Repetition. C) Ravioli. D) Reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 9. What is the central idea for Sonnet 116? A) Love takes too much time and no one needs to think about it. B) Love only takes place for the young and weak of heart. C) Love brings happiness and joy for one no matter the situation. D) Love takes advantage of people who read too many romance books and watch movies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love brings happiness and joy for one no matter the situation. 10. The first six lines of Sonnet 30 express which of the following views of love? A) Rational. B) Sarcastic. C) Sentimental. D) Passionate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rational. 11. Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)-paints a clear picture in the reader's mind. A) Enjambment. B) Sonnet. C) Imagery. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. Rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is a characteristic of sonnets A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. A stanza of four lines in a poem A) Couple. B) Sestet. C) Quatrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quatrain. 14. Type of metaphor in which objects are presented as if they were human A) Enumeration. B) Personification. C) Anaphora. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 15. True or False:William Shakespeare's popularity contributed to making literature and theater the most popular forms of art and leisure at this time. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's go to poetry form? A) Italian (or petrarchan) sonnets. B) Epic Poetry. C) Indian pantoums. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italian (or petrarchan) sonnets. 17. Which stanza in an English sonnet introduces a problem/situation or asks a question? A) Stanza 1. B) Stanza 2. C) Stanza 3. D) Stanza 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza 1. 18. Which poem is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet? A) Sonnet 130. B) Sonnet 18. C) Sonnet 83. D) Sonnet 77. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet 18. 19. To whom were his sonnets written? A) Mary Magdalene. B) Queen Elizabeth. C) The dark lady. D) Laura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laura. 20. When Shakespeare says:My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; This is an example of: A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A simile. ← 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 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books