SONNETS - S2

What is rhyme?

• The beats in a line

• The repetition of the final sound

• iambic pentameter

• a ballad

Rhythm is ​ ​ (a)  

• a dancer
• the genre of poem
• the theme in a poem
• a quatrian
• the beat and pace of a poem

We label rhyme in poetry by

• assigning each rhyme a number

• assigning each rhyme a letter

Meter is the basic pattern of rhythm in a poem.

The meter that Shakespeare used in his sonnets is...

• Trochaic tetrameter

• Iambic pentameter

• free verse

Iambic pentameter is made up of ​ (a)   pairs ​ (b)  

• five
• of unstressed/ stressed syllables
• four
• stressed/ unstressed

The number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter is

• 8

• 6

• 12

• 10

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme is called a

• Rhyming duo

• Rhyming couplet

• Rhyming pair

• Rhyming partner

A syllable is ​ (a)  

• a unit of sound (a beat)
• a line of poetry
• poetic form

A sonnet has 3 ​ (a)   and 1 ​ (b)  

• quatrains
• rhyming couplet
• lines
• rhymes
• iambic pentameter

A sonnet presents a problem in the first two quatrains, then goes on to solve it in the third. The turning point is called the

• volta

• iambic pentameter

• rhyming couplet