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Test Your Knowledge
1. How many lines does a sonnet usually have? (Type your answer in the box below)

2. What is a volta?

The unstressed syllable of an iamb
 The Italian name for sonnet
 A shift in tone or perspective in a sonnet
The last two lines rhyming lines of a sonnet
3. What does iambic pentameter mean?
A line with five pairs of syllables (stressed, unstressed)
 A line with six stressed syllables
 A line with five pairs of syllables (unstressed, stressed)
None of the above
4. The following poem is an example of a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet?

True

False

What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why

What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that no again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.

by Edna St. Vincent Millay