Shakspeare

Question 0

How many sonnets did Sh. Write?

Answer 0

154

Question 1

What year was Shakespeare born?

Answer 1

April 23,1564 (also died on the same day but in 1616

Question 2

When did he write the 154 sonnets?

Answer 2

In the 16th century (late 1500s)

Question 3

Why did he write the sonnets ?

Answer 3

Because the theaters were closed due to the plague, he wasn’t generating income and some noble man approached him about trying to get his son to marry

Question 4

Where were his plays preformed?

Answer 4

London

Question 5

What year were his sonnets leaked?

Answer 5

1609

Question 6

How can his sonnets be divided?

Answer 6

Into two halves:

• young noble man who should marry
• exotic black or black haired woman

Question 7

What parts of the sonnets are addressed to the young man?

Answer 7

1-126, 1-17 urge him to marry

Question 8

What sonnets are addressed to the exotic woman?

Answer 8

127-154

Question 9

What was it about these two people?

Answer 9

They were anonymous, and there was a love triangle going on

Question 10

What are the sonnets about?

Answer 10

The immortalization of love and beauty, and that time is always slipping away

Question 11

Where did the sonnet originate? What year?

Answer 11

Italy; 14th century (1300s)

Question 12

How many lines does an Italian sonnet have?

Answer 12

14, sounded musical as well

Question 13

Who was the Italian sonnet authored by?

Answer 13

Francesco Pertrarch

Question 14

What is the Italian sonnet also known as?

Answer 14

The Petrarch sonnet

Question 15

Who are the three crowns or fountains of Italy?

Answer 15

Francesco Petrarch , Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 16

How can the Petrarch sonnet be divided?

Answer 16

Into two structures with 14 lines with the first half called an Octave and the second a Sestet

Question 17

What is an octave?

Answer 17

An octave is an argument, question , or observation

Question 18

What is a sestet?

Answer 18

Answers or presents clarification or counter argument to the first lines.

Question 19

What is the 8th or 9th line in a Petrarch sonnet?

Answer 19

The “Volta” also known as the shift or turn

Question 20

What is the rhyme scheme for the Petrarch sonnet?

Answer 20

ABBA, ABBA, CDECDE or CDCCDC

Question 21

Where did the English sonnet originate?

Answer 21

In England; in the 16th century

Question 22

Who was the English sonnet brought by?

Answer 22

Sir Thomas Wyatt. He translated the Italian sonnet and drew attention to them Henry Howard also got credit for modifying them

Question 23

How many lines does an English sonnet have?

Answer 23

14 lines, consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet

Question 24

What is a couplet?

Answer 24

2 lines, has a vola moment, big red now on a present or unifies everything

Question 25

What is the rhyme scheme for the English sonnet?

Answer 25

ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

Question 26

How is the Shakespearean sonnet written in?

Answer 26

Iambic pentameter; ten syllable line with the last syllable having a hard sound