3RD Grading

Grade 10
Quiz No.1

I. Identification. Write the correct answer before the number.

1. It is an Italian word which means a little sound or song.
2. He is the author of Decameron.
3. The number of novellas in Decameron.
4. She is the woman who got married again after the death of her son.
5. The number of men who travelled around the world to share Decameron.
6. It is a type of sonnet that has 2 quatrain and sestet.
7. The other term for the word sestet.
8. He is the man who gave up everything to his woman.
9. The bird that the boy requested to his mother.
10. He is an English poet known as the swan of Avon.
11-13. The three poem written by Francisco Petrarch.
14. The number of lines that sonnet consists.
15. It is the 2 remaining lines in the Shakespearean sonnet.
II. Sonnet. Analyze the poem. Give the parts of each sonnet.

B. Petrarchan Sonnet A. Shakespearean Sonnet

“When I Consider How My Light is Spent” by Romeo and Juliet by William

John Milton, 1600s Shakespeare, 1594

When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide;
“Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed,
And post o’er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d
love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could
remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to
mend.