A. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines.
B. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-ef,g-g.
C. A sonnet is only written in Italian.
D. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet.
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) is false ?
A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.
B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.
D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem. - Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 153” is what kind of poem ?
A. A poem about death
B. A poem about love
C. A poem about writing poetry
D. A poem about Shakespeare and his father - Where does the sonnet form originate from ?
A. England
B. Spain
C. France
D. Italy - Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
A. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal “gross indecency.”
B. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.
C. Wilde was the author of such poems as “Bénédiction,” “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”
D. He was notorious for his use of paradox. - Which of the following statements concerning “Vorticism” is false ?
A. The term “Vorticism” was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.
B. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.
C. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism’s principal tenets.
D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I. - 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 - The first sonnet form invented was the____________?
The first sonnet form invented was the
A. Spenserian
B. Shakespearean
C. Wordsworthian
D. Petrarchan - 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 - To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses his sonnet sequence Amoretti ?
A. Lisa Boyle
B. Mary Jane
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. Elizabeth Boyle - How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
A. 10
B. 16
C. 14
D. 22
