lesson 2

Question 1

a poetic form that has fourteen lines

Answer 1

SONNET

Question 2

comes from the Italian word sonneto, which
means “a little poem”

Answer 2

SONNET

Question 3

is a 14 line poem with a specific rhyme
scheme.

Answer 3

SONNET

Question 4

Types
of
Sonnet

Answer 4

Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet; Spenserian Sonnet; Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 5

Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 5

ABBA ABBA CDC CDC

Question 6

Spenserian Sonnet

Answer 6

ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

Question 7

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 7

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Question 8

Italian writer Petrarch was one of the main
proponents of the form

Answer 8

Petrarch

Question 9

 14 line poem
 1 octave (8 line stanza) followed by
 1 sestet (6 line stanza)
 has rhyming scheme of
ABBA ABBA CDC CDC or ABBA ABBA CDE CDE

Answer 9

Italian or Petrarchan

Question 10

is sometimes
also known as Elizabethan because they came
into popularity in the English language during
the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Answer 10

English or Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 11

 14 line poem
 3 quatrains (4 line stanzas) followed by 1
couplet (2 line stanza)
 Rhyming scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Answer 11

English or Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 12

One of Edmund Spenser’s sonnets
with the rhyme scheme of
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

Answer 12

Spenserian Sonnet