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Shakespearean Sonnets

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Quick and easy quiz over a few Shakespearean sonnets #sonnet #shakespeare

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1
Which set of lines usually signal the volta?
The Couplet
the last quatrain
The last line
the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
2
What is the Rhyme Scheme of a sonnet?
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
AABBCCDDEEFFGG
ABCDEFG
ABCABCEFEFGG
3
A regular measurable pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called
rhythm
rhyme scheme
iambic pentameter
scanning
4
Shakespearean sonnets are divided into
Three quatrains and a couplet
There is no division
Two sestets and a couplet
Two quatrains and a sestet
5
What beat does Iambic Pentameter mimic?
War drums
The "We will Rock You " beat
There is no beat in Iambic Pentameter
A Human Heart
6
An appropriate claim in literary analysis must include what
Literary Devices
Summary of what the text says.
You must TAG then restate the statement.
You must TAG, restate, and answer (how; what devices) and (why; theme).
7
In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare plainly says (paraphrased)
His mistress' breath smells like perfume
His mistress' voice sounds just like music
His mistress' eyes shine just like the sun
His love is as rare as any woman who is lied to by her lover
8
A quatrain is a group of how many lines in a poem?
10
6
2
4
9
How many lines are in a sonnet?
12
15
13
14
10
Which of the following best describes a couplet?
A couple, like a boyfriend and a girlfriend
Two lines of verse, in the same meter, joined by rhyme
Four lines of verse, in the same meter, joined by rhyme
2 things that rhyme together