NAME: ______DATE: ______
Sonnet Quiz
1. What are the 3 characteristics of a sonnet?
a. 12 lines, 5 pentameters, rhyme scheme
b. 14 lines, iambic pentameter, specific rhyme scheme
c. unlimited lines, iambic pentameter, specific rhyme scheme
2. What are the three types of sonnets?
a. Italian, English, Petrarchan
b. Shakespearean, Italian, English
c. Shakespearean, Italian, Spenserian
3. What is the stanza form of a Shakespearean sonnet?
a. 3 quatrains and a couplet
b. an octave and a sestet
c. 3 linking quatrains and a couplet
4. What is the stanza form of an Italian sonnet?
a. 3 quatrains and a couplet
b. an octave and a sestet
c. 3 linking quatrains and a couplet
5. What is the stanza form of a Spenserian sonnet?
a. 3 quatrains and a couplet
b. an octave and a sestet
c. 3 linking quatrains and a couplet
6. What is the rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet?
a. abbaabba cdcdcd or abbaabba cdecde
b. abab cdcd efef gg
c. abab bcbc cdcd ee
7. What is the rhyme scheme for a Petrarchan sonnet?
a. abbaabba cdcdcd or abbaabba cdecde
b. abab cdcd efef gg
c. abab bcbc cdcd ee
8. What is the rhyme scheme for a Spenserian sonnet?
a. abbaabba cdcdcd or abbaabba cdecde
b. abab cdcd efef gg
c. abab bcbc cdcd ee
9. How many lines is a quatrain? ______
10. How many lines is a octave? ______
11. How many lines is a sestet?______
12. How many lines is a couplet? ______
13. How many beats per line is iambic pentameter? ______
14. What is the purpose of the octave?
15. What is the purpose of the sestet?
Give the rhyme scheme and tell
What type of sonnet is this: ______
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
Give the rhyme scheme and tell
What type of sonnet is this: ______
The young Endymion sleeps Endymion’s sleep;
The shepherd-boy whose tale was left half told!
The solemn grove uplifts its shield of gold
To the red rising moon, and loud and deep
The nightingale is singing from the steep;
It is midsummer, but the air is cold;
Can it be death? Alas, beside the fold
A shepherd’s pipe lies shattered near his sheep.
Lo! in the moonlight gleams a marble white,
On which I read: “Here lieth one whose name
Was writ in water.” And was this the meed
Of his sweet singing? Rather let me write:
“The smoking flax before it burst to flame
Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.”