This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 36 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which poetry type is usually written in quatrains (with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABCB) or sestets (with a rhyme scheme of ABCBDB)? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 2. What is the name of the meter Shakespeare uses that sounds much like a heartbeat? A) Iambic Tetrameter. B) Trochaic Pentameter. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Iambic Trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic Pentameter. 3. In a Shakespearean drama, a humorous episode to offset seriousness of previous scene is called ..... A) Comic relief. B) Humorous moment. C) Contradictions. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comic relief. 4. A typical upper-class evening of entertainment after dinner at someone's home during the Elizabethan period would include all of the following except: A) Women seeking husbands. B) Couples writing sonnets together. C) Men reading their newly written sonnets to the guests. D) Men and/or women playing musical instruments while others danced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couples writing sonnets together. 5. What makes a rhyming couplet? A) Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme. B) Two lines with 'ab' rhyming scheme. C) Three lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme. 6. In Sonnet 73, line 12 "Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by" is an example of a(n) ..... A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Paradox. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 7. A group of lines in a poem, separated by a space A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 8. In Sidney's Sonnet 39, the speaker asks sleep to "make in me those civil wars to cease." What does he mean by "civil wars" ? A) A quarrel between the speaker and Stella. B) The speaker's anger toward society. C) The war going on in England between the common people and the king. D) The conflict and despair he feels because of his love for Stella. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The conflict and despair he feels because of his love for Stella. 9. Scholars believe Shakespeare invented ..... A) 100 words. B) 500 words. C) Less than 300 words. D) More than 1700 words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More than 1700 words. 10. In sonnet 18 the speaker promises the youth's beauty will not fade. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. How many feet are in a line of iambic pentameter A) 5. B) 10. C) 2. D) 4. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 12. What do we call two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme? A) A couplet. B) A dynamic duo. C) A chorus. D) A diameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A couplet. 13. How many syllables per line in a sonnet? A) 10. B) 8. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 14. I ate an enormous meal today. What is the word enormous in this sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 15. A reference to something or someone else well known outside of the work being read. A) Illusion. B) Allusion. C) Foreshadow. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 16. In Sonnet 43 what is concluded? A) She will always love beyond measure. B) She will continue to love but with rules. C) She is finished with her lover. D) She wishes to make a change but can't. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She will always love beyond measure. 17. The first 8 lines are called the ..... A) Turn. B) Sestet. C) Octave. D) Merry Go Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Octave. 18. Line 9 implies that the speaker ..... A) Will never be able to express his feelings. B) Wants to end the relationship. C) Has written poems that say what he can't express with speech. D) Can't possibly make his feelings clear to his love. E) Believes his feelings are not being reciprocated by his love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has written poems that say what he can't express with speech. 19. The arrangement of words in poetry based on rhythm, accents, and the number of syllables in a line A) Metaphor. B) Metric. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 20. What do we call a description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) A) Sensations. B) Sensory plus. C) Imagery. D) Rule of fives. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. ← 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