This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How do the speaker's feelings change between the beginning and the end of Sonnet 29? A) They change from hopeless to thankful. B) They change from fearful to courageous. C) They change from joyful to sorrowful. D) They change from hopeful to grateful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They change from hopeless to thankful. 2. When Shakespeare says:My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red. Shakespeare means ..... A) Her lips are not red. B) Her lips are like coral. C) Her lips are coral. D) She has no lips, only coral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her lips are not red. 3. How does this poem differ from traditional sonnets? A) Number of lines. B) Point of view. C) Pattern of meter. D) Use of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Use of language. 4. The words "mine ears" and "tongue's tune" in line 5 are examples of ..... feet. A) Trochaic. B) Dactylic. C) Anapestic. D) Spondaic. E) Pyrrhic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spondaic. 5. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with five lines each. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of a line. A) Satire. B) Imagery. C) Cesura. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cesura. 7. What is the rhyme scheme for the poem "Dreams" ?Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. A) AABB. B) Father. C) ABBC. D) ABCB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABCB. 8. How does the repetition of lines in a villanelle affect the reader's experience? A) Makes the poem long. B) Adds musical quality. C) Adds length to the poem. D) Makes the poem harder to read . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adds musical quality. 9. What is a reference to another work of literature, person, or event? A) Symbolism. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 10. What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds? A) Composition. B) Sensation. C) Preservation. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 11. A Shakespeare Sonnet has ..... lines A) 10. B) 12. C) 14. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 12. These two sonnets were A) Ballads. B) Written by females. C) Written as Shakespearean sonnets. D) American. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Written by females. 13. Which sonnet form did Milton use? A) Italian. B) English. C) French. D) Greek. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italian. 14. An extended metaphor: A) Conceit. B) Conceive. C) Center. D) Cello. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 15. Is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization? A) Shakespearean. B) Petrarchan. C) Sonnet. D) Miltonic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 16. ..... occurs when a character says one thing (sometimes by using a figure of speech or pun) but means something else. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 17. Usually the narrator of a ballad tells the story with personal feelings or attitudes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. What is a tercet (a villanelle has 5 of them)? A) Rhyming lines of 2. B) Rhyming lines of 3. C) Rhyming lines of 4. D) Rhyming lines of 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyming lines of 3. 19. How many syllables are in a foot A) 5. B) 10. C) 2. D) 4. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 20. The final two verses of a Shakespearean sonnet are called A) Kissed lines. B) Rhymed lines. C) Twin lines. D) Rhyming couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming couplet. ← 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