The Sonnet

Question 1

How many lines, usually

Answer 1

14

Iambic

Question 2

There are two kinds with very different

Answer 2

Histories
Petrarchan
Shakespearean

Question 3

Petrarchan sonnet is of what origin
Has an octave of 
And a sestet of
Rhyme scheme of octave 
Rhyme scheme of sestet

Answer 3

Italian 
8 lines
6 lines
Ababcdcd
Cde cde

Question 4

The Shakespeare sonnet was developed in

And has far more

Answer 4

England

Than just surface differences from the Petrarchan

Question 5

He rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is
The is no
What is the defining feature

Answer 5

Ababcdcdefefgg
Octave/sestet structure to it
Final couplet

Question 6

Sonnets origins are in

It lingered there for ? Before ?

Answer 6

Small sunlit courts of Sicily

200 years/ English poetry

Question 7

The wildfire and historic development of the form began when ?

Answer 7

Francesco petrarca who lived in Tuscany and was born in 1304 published canzoniere

Question 8

What is the canzoniere

Answer 8

A sequence of 366 poems 317 of which were sonnets to an idealized lover called Laura

Question 9

Petrarch has been influenced by

Answer 9

Dante

Question 10

Canzoniere became a ? Why?

By the time of Petrarcha death in 1374 his circle of influence included

Answer 10

European bestseller
Wit yearning and and ability to make a narrative out of a necklace of short poems
Chaucer and Boccaccio

Question 11

It was the ? Who developed one of the features of the sonnet that survives to the present day

Answer 11

Italian originators
The octave and sestet division one strong opening statement of 8 lines is followed by a resolution to the emotional or intellectual question of the first part of the poem

Question 12

This shape made the sonnet a ? Open to shades of

Answer 12

Self sufficient form

Mood and tone

Question 13

This degree of close and repetitive rhyme in turn reflected the

Answer 13

Rich resources of Italian rhyme

Question 14

When the sonnet came to England it fell into hands of

A doomed and one of its first? Who

Answer 14

Thomas Wyatt
Master
Champions there
Adapted it to his own uses and talents : he used the Petrarchan octave but introduced a rhyming couplet at the end

Question 15

His contemporary and friend ?

Also

Answer 15

Earl of surrey

Introduced more rhymes into it

Question 16

In Italian there were only

After Wyatt and surrey the sonnet could have a change that ?

Answer 16

5 rhymes
7
Benefited practitioners in a language with less abundant rhymes than Italian

Question 17

Wyatt and surrey sonnets have a new

By Shakespeare’s time the couplet was often

Answer 17

Resonance to the ending through the often declamatory couplet
The loudest most powerful part of the sonnet

Question 18

On one hand the Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 18

Three quatrains and final couplet which allowed fairly free association of images to develop lyrically toward a conclusion

Question 19

On the other had a Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 19

Milton used it in on his blindness

With all the dignity of proposal and response