What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
Shakespearean Sonnets Quiz

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Dayanara Maghamil
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A 12-line poem
A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter
A poem that tells a story
A poem with no specific structure
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Who is credited with inventing the sonnet?
Shakespeare
Petrarch
Homer
Milton
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write that are known today?
Over 200
154
100
250
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet?
Three quatrains and a couplet
An octave followed by a sestet
A single stanza
Two equal parts of 7 lines each
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term used to describe the emotional turn in a sonnet?
Quatrain
Couplet
Volta
Sestet
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In Sonnet 18, what is the beloved compared to?
A winter's night
A summer's day
A beautiful flower
A starry sky
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How does the first quatrain of Sonnet 18 describe summer?
It is everlasting
It is perfect and unchanging
It fades and withers
It is always too cold
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