This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 35 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Shakespeare says:And in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.This is an example of: A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) The idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A metaphor. 2. Volta in a sonnet is? A) A diverging effect of theme occur in the ninth line. B) Penultimate line of a sonnet. C) Ultimate line of a sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A diverging effect of theme occur in the ninth line. 3. Consider this line: "'Vain man, ' said she, 'that doest in vain assay" '. Which of the following explains both uses of vain correctly? A) The first means vain, and the second serious. B) The first means foolish and the second means useless. C) The first means blood vessel, and the second means worthless. D) The first means happy and the second means nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The first means foolish and the second means useless. 4. A comparison between unlike items using the words like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. What is the typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Abab;cdcde;efef;gg. B) Aabb; ccdd; eeff. C) Aaab;bbbc;cccd;dd. D) Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abab;cdcde;efef;gg. 6. How many lines is a sonnet meant to have? A) Sixteen lines. B) Fourteen lines. C) Twelve lines. D) Ten lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fourteen lines. 7. What is the purpose of the octave in a sonnet? A) To introduce the main idea. B) To change the rhyme scheme. C) To conclude the poem. D) To summarize the argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To introduce the main idea. 8. Sonnets are written in iambic tetrameter A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, " is the opening line to A) 3. B) 18. C) 34. D) 127. E) 130. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 10. An Italian sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet have the same number of lines A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 11. How many quatrains are there in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 12. The theme of a sonnet can be about- A) Love. B) Nature. C) People. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 13. Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of five syllables. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. What is the traditional meter used in sonnets? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Trochaic tetrameter. C) Anapestic hexameter. D) Dactylic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 15. The poem is written by A) S T Coleridge. B) William Blake. C) Williams Wordsworth. D) H W Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Williams Wordsworth. 16. A sonnet is consisted of ..... A) 16 lines. B) 15 lines. C) 14 lines. D) 10 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14 lines. 17. What is a sestet (the 2nd part of an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes a ballad has these)? A) Rhyming lines of 3. B) Rhyming lines of 4. C) Rhyming lines of 6. D) Rhyming lines of 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming lines of 6. 18. What does a speaker of a sonnet often start the poem with? A) A problem, question or emotion. B) A problem, solution or answer. C) A question, a fact, and a statistic. D) An emotion and the causes and effects of that emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A problem, question or emotion. 19. What is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" A) Sonnet 18. B) Sonnet 34. C) Sonnet 99. D) Sonnet 155. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet 18. 20. Feel or show triumphant elation or jubilation. A) Sojourn. B) Exults. C) Sated. D) Languishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exults. ← 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