Shakespearean Sonnets

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

How many syllables are in a line of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• 5

• 7

• 10

• 12

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write ?

• 154

• 155

• 156

• 157

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

• 145

• 73

• 154

How many sonnets did shakespeare write?

• 154

• 200

• 120

• 75

How many of William Shakespeare's sonnets were published in his complete works?

• 154

• 54

• 37

• All of them

Which poem is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet?

• Sonnet 130

• Sonnet 18

• Sonnet 83

• Sonnet 77

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.

• Sestet

• Iamb

• Quatrain

• Couplet

How many lines are in a sonnet?

• 18

• 14

• 13

• 10

What is a group of four lines in a sonnet called?

• Quatrain

• Cinquain

• Quartet

• Tetrain