1. What meter is most commonly used in sonnets?
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the octave in a Petrarchan sonnet?
3. What is the term for the "shift" or "turn" in a sonnet?
4. Who is credited with popularizing the sonnet form in Italy?
5. What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
6. Who introduced the sonnet to England?
7. What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet in a traditional Petrarchan sonnet?
8. Which sonnet form uses interlocking rhyme schemes, such as ABAB BCBC CDCD EE?
9. What is a "curtal sonnet"?
10. What is the subject matter of early Italian and English sonnets?
11. What is the "proposition" in a sonnet?
12. What is the purpose of the sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet?
13. In a Shakespearean sonnet, how many quatrains are there?
14. What type of meter is described as having five iambs per line?
15. What innovation did Shakespeare introduce in his sonnets?
16. What is the primary feature of a sonnet sequence?
17. Which sonnet form is characterized by three quatrains and a couplet?
18. What theme is addressed in Milton’s Sonnet "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"?
19. How many lines are in the sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet?
20. Who wrote a series of sonnets titled "Amoretti"?
