What Is a Sonnet

A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.

• Epic

• Narrative Poem

• Sonnet

• Limerick

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

• Petrarchan Sonnet

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an accented, unaccented pattern.

• Trochee

• Iamb

• Pentameter

• Octometer

This is another name for the Shakespearean sonnet.

• Italian Sonnet

• Petrarchan Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

• English Sonnet

A four line stanza.

• couplet

• refrain

• quatrain

• octave

A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.

• iambic pentameter

• iambic tetrameter

• trochee pentameter

• trochee tetrameter

The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.

• quatrain

• couplet

• octave

• sestet

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.

• trochee

• dactyl

• anapest

• iamb

A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

• Italian Sonnet

• English Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

• None of the above

Another name for a type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

• English Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

• Petrarchan Sonnet

• None of the above