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Miscellaneous
100
The country in which Shakespeare lived.
What is England.
100
Known for writing sonnets to anonymous person- referred to as this name.
What is Laura
100
The italian word sonnet means this.
What is song.
100
The number of lines in a sonnet.
What is 14.
100
Sonnets focus on one idea, feeling or this.
What is theme.
200
During what time period did Shakespeare live?
What is 1564 to 1616.
200
The number of sonnets that Petrarch wrote to his anonymous love.
What is 366
200
These are the traveling musicians who performed sonnets from castle to castle.
What are troubadours.
200
The number of syllables in each line.
What is 10
200
Each of the quatrains explore one aspect of the poem's central_________.
What is idea.
300
The number of sonnets that Shakespeare wrote.
What is 154
300
The time frame that Petrach lived.
What is 1304 to 1374.
300
The time when sonnets were first developed.
What is the Middle Ages.
300
The name of the last two lines of the sonnet.
What is rhyming couplet.
300
The rhyming couplet acts as a __________ of the sonnet.
What is conclusion.
400
Two things that Shakespeare was known for.
What is writing dramas, acting on stage, poetry--"The greatest writer in the English language.
400
The University that Petrarch attended.
What is University of Bologna.
400
The number of years for the Italian sonnet to make its way to England.
What is 200.
400
The lines are divided up into three of these four line sections.
What is quatrain.
400
Name two literary devices or figurative language that are used in a sonnet.
What are simile, imagery, metaphor, personification.
500
One of Shakespeare's children's names.
What is Hamnet, Judith, Susanna
500
His re-discovery of Cicero's letters credits him with this.
What is initiating the 14th century Renaissance.
500
Petrarch's italian name before it was anglicized.
What is Petrarca.
500
The ten syllable lines are divided into 5 feet which consist of these.
What is five groups of two syllables each.
500
Name the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is abac, cdcd, efef, gg.