Shakespearean Sonnets

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

• 154

• 156

• 165

• 172

How many lines are in a sonnet?

• 10

• 16

• 14

• 12

What is a quatrain?

• A stanza that includes four lines of poetry

• Two lines at the end of a poem that have the same rhyme scheme

• A stanza that includes six lines of poetry

• Four lines in a poem that all rhyme

How many quatrains are in a Shakespearean sonnet?

• 4

• 2

• 5

• 3

What is a couplet?

• Two lines of poetry that both have different rhyme schemes

• Two lines of poetry that Shakespeare wrote for a patron

• Two lines of poetry that appear at the end of a sonnet

• Two lines of poetry that never have the same rhyme scheme

What is the rhyme scheme for the first quatrain of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• ACAC

• ABBA

• AABB

• ABAB

What is the rhyme scheme for the second quatrain of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• CDCD

• BCBC

• CCBB

• ABCD

What is the rhyme scheme for the third quatrain of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• FEFE

• FFEE

• EFEF

• EEFF

What is the rhyme scheme for the couplet of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• ABAB

• BBBB

• GG

• HH

Shakespeare wrote most of his sonnets in...

• Iambic hexamter

• Trochaic hexameter

• Iambic penameter

• Iambic pentameter