Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

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1. The speaker in Shakespeare's sonnet 130 could best be described as
2. The children ran quickly to the school. What is quickly in this sentence?
3. In Sonnet 30, how would you characterize the ending?
4. The themes of sonnets typically express strong emotion such as love.
5. An example of an oxymoron would be
6. According to the speaker in Sonnet 73 ( "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" ), how will his aging affect the person he addresses?
7. What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet?
8. Language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses, that makes readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things in their imagination; for example, "the coal-black night, " "the stinging cold, " "the rapping and tapping of rain on the roof"
9. In literature, the character who antagonizes the main character, considered the "bad guy."
10. What type of meter is used in sonnets?
11. The continuation of a sentence without a pause (punctuation) beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
12. What is a device in literature where an object represents an idea.
13. The imaginary person who speaks the words of a poem, not necessarily the poet
14. Which of the following phrases from Sonnet 116 best supports Shakespeare's message in the sonnet that love will never change?
15. Which type of poetry is usually written in common meter (alternating lines of tetrameter [8 syllables per line] and trimeter [6 syllables per line]?
16. In general, 14 line poem with a set rhyme scheme is a .....
17. "My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is the opening line to
18. How many syllables does iambic pentameter have?
19. Sonnets have..... lines
20. What topic did Shakespeare's sonnets focus on?