This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Giving human qualities to a thing or abstraction; for example, "The kettle sang on the hearth, " or "After the victory, freedom held its head high in the nation." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. Which is the best paraphrase of this line from Spenser's Sonnet 35? All this world's glory seemeth vain to me ..... A) The things the world considers great in life seem meaningless to me. B) The world is a great place to live. C) I have not received the glory and honor I have earned. D) The wonders of this world are too great to enjoy in a short life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The things the world considers great in life seem meaningless to me. 3. What is a group of lines in a poem called? A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 4. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and rhyming A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 5. How many stanzas are in a traditional villanelle? A) 3. B) 5. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 6. What is a repeating line of poetry called? A) A repeat. B) A rerhyme. C) A refrain. D) An echo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A refrain. 7. The beauty of the morning is compared to a A) An ornament. B) The sun. C) A garment. D) A bright face of a girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A garment. 8. A sonnet has a 'twist' at the end that makes the poem rude or funny. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. One set of stressed and unstressed syllables is called A) Sonnet. B) Meter. C) Foot. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot. 10. Shakespeare's love has sweet breath. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. The word sonnet comes from ..... A) The Greek word sonos meaning sound. B) The Italian word sonnello meaning small poem. C) The Italian word sonosito meaning spicy sausage. D) The Italian word sonetto meaning little song. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Italian word sonetto meaning little song. 12. What does the hyperbole, "I have a million things to do today" mean? A) There are a million things to do today. B) There is nothing to do today. C) There is a lot to do tomorrow. D) There is a lot to do today. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There is a lot to do today. 13. The second part of the Petrarchan sonnet is known as A) Sestet. B) Sestina. C) Satin. D) Sasquatcha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sestet. 14. True or False:The upper class consisted of nobles and gentry. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 in these final lines? If this be error, and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved. A) If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won't believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love. B) What I've said is not a mistake because I am a writer and men have fallen in love. C) I may be mistaken in what I've said, but I am still a writer and men still fall in love. D) You don't have to believe me, but you must believe I am a writer and that men fall in love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won't believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love. 16. What is poetry without a consistent meter, rhyme, or stanza length called? A) Villanelle. B) Sonnet. C) Epic. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 17. What does iambic pentameter help to create in a sonnet? A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 18. A long narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of a heroic figure A) Narrative Poem. B) Epic Poem. C) Octave. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic Poem. 19. The Shakespearean sonnet can also be called the A) English Sonnet. B) Petrarchan Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English Sonnet. 20. It was terribly hot this afternoon. What is the word terribly in this sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books