This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many lines are there in the sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet? (a) A) Four. B) Five. C) Seven. D) A Eight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Eight. 2. When Shakespeare says:If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.This is an example of: A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) The idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A metaphor. 3. What is not personified in the poem? A) Death. B) Time. C) Love. D) Doom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doom. 4. What is the rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean Sonnet? A) FATHER CDCDCD. B) FATHER CDECDE. C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 5. Implicit comparison between two things A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet are called ..... A) The trick. B) The flop. C) The turn. D) The river. E) The verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The turn. 7. Where does the turn occur in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Either the third quatrain or couplet. B) Always the third quatrain. C) Any quatrain or couplet. D) Either the second or third quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Either the third quatrain or couplet. 8. Which statement best explains how the structure of "Interflora" contributes to the meaning of the poem? A) The meter and rhyme scheme of the sonnet form emphasize the romantic theme of the poem. B) The poem's format as an email message contrasts with the serious topic of love. C) The poem's setup as a list of instructions emphasizes the theme of frustration with technology. D) The traditional sonnet form contrasts with the modern subject matter of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The traditional sonnet form contrasts with the modern subject matter of the poem. 9. AShakespearean sonnet mostly follows which rhyme scheme? A) AABB. B) ABCD. C) Father. D) AAAB. E) AAAH. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Father. 10. What makes a quatrain? A) Four lines. B) Three couplets. C) Five lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Four lines. 11. How many lines are in a couplet? A) 4. B) 3. C) 12. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 12. What is the typical rhyme scheme of a sonnet? A) Aa bb cc dd. B) Abacb gg. C) Abab cdcd efef gg. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abab cdcd efef gg. 13. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in ..... A) London. B) Stratford-Upon-Avon. C) Westminster Abbey. D) Birmingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford-Upon-Avon. 14. How does the use of the sonnet form affect the poem's style? A) The sonnet form leads the speaker to explain the relationship in three logical parts. B) The sonnet form leads the speaker to write in flowery language that focuses on emotions. C) The sonnet form leads the speaker to use a first-person point of view that reveals feelings. D) The sonnet form leads the speaker to use figurative language to create challenging metaphors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sonnet form leads the speaker to explain the relationship in three logical parts. 15. What is a "rhyming couplet" ? A) A pair of lines which rhyme. B) When the first and last line of the poem rhyme. C) The ABAB rhyme scheme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pair of lines which rhyme. 16. Which statement most accurately describes the word choices in these four lines?The autumn leaves Rustle from the trees:First gold, then red, Then brown, then dead. A) Images appealing to the senses of sight and sound describe the autumnleaves. B) Images appealing to the senses of sight and touch describe the leaflesstrees. C) A literal description of autumn leaves captures their dull appearance. D) A figurative description of autumn leaves conveys the speaker's joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Images appealing to the senses of sight and sound describe the autumnleaves. 17. A literary device used to show contrast between appearance and reality. A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Humor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 18. Which of the following is NOT a type of sonnet? A) Petrarchan sonnet. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Spenserian sonnet. D) Miltonic sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miltonic sonnet. 19. Come all ye lads draw near by me that I be not foresaken This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my living has been taken. This is an example of a ..... A) Sonnet. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 20. A rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines. A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) End rhyme. 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