How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The Petrarchan sonnet is composed of how many lines ?

   A. 9
   B. 10
   C. 12
   D. 14

2. Ezra Pound’s “Canto I” opens with the following lines: “And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(…).” Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole ?

   A. These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.
   B. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.
   C. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.
   D. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.

3. Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?

   A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
   B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
   C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
   D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

4. Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

   A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
   B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.
   C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
   D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges.

5. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

   A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
   the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
   B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
   C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
   D. All of the above

6. Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?

   A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
   B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
   C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
   D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

7. In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ?

   A. The European Magazine
   B. New Poetry
   C. The Tatler
   D. The Rambler

8. Where does the sonnet form originate from ?

   A. England
   B. Spain
   C. France
   D. Italy

9. What is a sonnet ?

   A. A poem of six lines
   B. A poem of eight lines
   C. A poem of twelve lines
   D. A poem of fourteen lines

10. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”, the poet does which of the following ?

    A. Compares his love to a winter storm
    B. Compares his love to a summer’s day
    C. Compares his love to a turbulent sea
    D. Compares his love to his fear of death