Shakespearean Sonnets Quiz

A sonnet contains _____ lines. 

• 12
• 4
• 14
• 16

A quatrain contains

• 2 lines of poetry
• 3 lines of poetry
• 4 lines of poetry
• 5 lines of poetry

How many quatrains are contained in an English/Shakespearean Sonnet?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The last 'part' of a sonnet contains ____ rhyming lines

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The last two lines of a sonnet are called a couplet.

• true
• false

The rhyme scheme of a sonnet depends upon ______________. 

• internal rhyme
• meter
• iambic pentameter
• end rhyme

What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• aa bb cc dd ee ff gg
• abcd efgh ijkl mm
• abab cdcd efef gg
• aabb ccdd eeff gg

The rhyme scheme in this stanza is __________________ 
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts be dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 

• AABB
• ABABA
• ABAB
• ABBA 

Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter.

• true
• false

What does the word penta in pentameter mean?

• 10 iambs
• 5 iambs
• 4 iambs
• 2 iambs

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