This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do we call an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable? It is sometimes compared to a heartbeat. A) Couplet. B) Iamb. C) Quatrain. D) Penta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. 2. The life lesson learned from reading a literary work. A) Conflict. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Adversary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 3. What is a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Centimeter duo. C) Amphitheater. D) Decimeters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 4. A type of sonnet that contains 3 quatrains and a couplet is called a/an ..... sonnet A) English. B) Italian. C) Petrarchan. D) Spenserian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English. 5. As an "anti-Petrarchan" poem (which means against poets subject matter of the time), Sonnet 130 makes fun of Petrarchan A) Similes. B) Women. C) Sonnet cycles. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 6. Which lines contain an example of enjambment? A) Lines 5 and 6. B) Lines 7 and 8. C) Lines 8 and 9. D) Lines 13 and 14. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lines 5 and 6. 7. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is the beginning line of sonnet A) CXXX. B) CXVI. C) XVIII. D) LV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) XVIII. 8. The final six lines are called A) Turn. B) Sestet. C) Octave. D) Merry Go Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sestet. 9. What makes a couplet? A) Four lines. B) Two lines. C) Three lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two lines. 10. Shakespearean Sonnets are written in ..... A) Iambic trimeter. B) Iambic quatrometer. C) Penta iambic meter. D) Foot rhythm. E) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Iambic pentameter. 11. What is part prison/ part panic closet? A) Prison. B) Life. C) The sonnets. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sonnets. 12. Wordsworth says that the daffodils "stretched in never-ending line" .from I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, Wordsworth WHAT KIND OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS SHOWN BY THIS EXAGGERATION? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. A stanza of six lines in a poem A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Pentagon. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sestet. 14. What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 when he says "Love's not Times' fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/ Within his bending sickle's compass come" ? A) Love doesn't always last a long time. B) Getting closer to death puts a strain on love. C) Love doesn't change with time even if beauty fades. D) Love causes cheeks to get rosy and lips to be red. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love doesn't change with time even if beauty fades. 15. The rules that govern how a poem is structured ..... A) Poetic form. B) Line break. C) Sonnet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetic form. 16. A quatrain contains A) 2 lines of poetry. B) 3 lines of poetry. C) 4 lines of poetry. D) 5 lines of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4 lines of poetry. 17. What does 'sonnet' mean? A) Young swan. B) Inscription. C) Little song. D) Scroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little song. 18. True or False:A Petrarchan sonnet is made up of 14 lines. The first 8 lines are part of the octave (octet) and the last 6 lines are part of the sestet, (sextet). A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called A) Blank verse. B) Rap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 20. Shakespeare's sonnets we studied all share the same A) Theme, tone, and form. B) Meter, couplets, and motif. C) Form, meter, and rhyme scheme. D) Speaker, subject, and metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form, meter, and rhyme scheme. ← 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