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Sonnet
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Spenser’s
Sonnets
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
The
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How many sonnets did
Shakespeare write?
A. 95
B. 100
C. 154
C. 154
Which of the following statements is not true
in regards to the sonnets?
A. Each of the sonnets follows the rules of the
sonnet form.
B. Each sonnet has a logical organization of
ideas.
C. Each sonnet has sixteen lines.
D. The order of them was probably published
without Shakespeare’s consent.
C. Each sonnet has
16 lines. (Each has
14.)
In the form known as the
Shakespearean
sonnet,
the
requirements are that the
fourteen lines are divided into:
A.Three quatrains and a couplet
B. Four quatrains
C. Six couplets and a quatrain
A. Three quatrains
and a couplet
Which of the following statements is
NOT true of iambic pentameter:
A. It is a rhyme scheme Shakespeare
invented.
B. One line consists of five metrical
feet of poetry.
C. An “iamb” is an unstressed and a
stressed syllable in a line of poetry.
A. It is a rhyme
scheme
Shakespeare
invented. (He
didn’t.)
In a Shakespearean sonnet, which below is
the correct logical organization?
A. A situation, a question, followed by an
answer.
B. A question and tentative answers,
followed by a turn and a final answer.
C. A setting, rising action, a climax, falling
action, and a resolution
D. A conflict; possible solution; a resolution
B. A question and tenttative answers, followed
by a turn and a final
answer
The first line in Sonnet 30 My love is like to ice, and I to fire
contains which literary device?
A. rhyme
C. metaphor
B. alliteration
D. simile
D. simile
What is the rhyme scheme in the
following Spenserian sonnet?
My love is like to ice, and I to fire
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
A. AABB
C. ABCD
B. ABAB
D. ABAC
B. ABAB
In Spenser’s Sonnet 75, what is
the meaning of the word
strand:
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away;
A.wet concrete
C. tree
B. sand
D. tattoo
B. sand
In the lines
What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all things melts, should harden ice…
what literary device does
Spenser use?
A.rhyme B.paradox C.allusion D.satire
B. paradox
“Not so,” quod I, “let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verses your virtues shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.”
What is the idea about love Spenser makes?
A.The sonnet preserves their love and people still read about it.
B.The poet believes his love more beautiful than earthly things.
C. Love can change the natural tendencies of things.
D. Love is stronger than death.
A. The sonnet preserves their
love and people still read
about it.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
What is the literary term for these four lines?
A. a quatrain
C. rhyming couplet
B. iambic hexameter
D. all of these
A. a quatrain
What is the meaning of the line
And summer’s lease hath all to short a date.
A. Summer lasts too long.
B. Summer is the least season.
C. A date is like a summer’s day.
D. Summer is too short.
D. Summer is too
short.
What literary device is
used in this line:
And summer’s lease hath all to short
a date.
A. hyperbole
C. metaphor
B. Alliteration
D. simile
C. metaphor
Identify the line which contains the turn in Sonnet 18:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
A. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
B. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st
C. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
D. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
B. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
What is the turn in a
Shakespearean sonnet?
A. the climax of the poem
B. an example of instruction in the poem
C. the resolution of the poem
D. the shift in focus or thought in the
poem
D. the shift in focus or thought in
the poem
What is the best paraphrase of this,
the first line of Sonnet 29?
When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
A. When I am a disgrace to myself
B. When life has dealt harshly to me and
others think little of me
C. I am sick because I am not as beautiful as I
once was
D. I have nothing to live for in my old age
B.When life has dealt harshly to
me and others think little of me
How are these lines best understood?
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
A. The poet wishes to leave his lover a large inheritance.
B. The feelings the poet has for his beloved have changed.
C. The poet sees his love as of lesser value than money.
D. The poet sees his love as better than any amount or kind
of wealth.
D. The poet sees his love as better
than any amount or kind of wealth.
What literary device is used
in the following line from
Sonnet 29?
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
A. simile
C. personification
B. Metaphor
D. allusion
A. simile
Identify the turn in the following lines:
A. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
B. Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
C. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
D. Haply I think on thee, and then my state
Like to the lark at break of day arising….
C. Yet in these thoughts
myself almost despising,
In a Shakespearean sonnet, the 14 lines
can be understood to have a formal
organization, consisting of:
A. A question and tentative answers, a
turn, and a final answer
B. A mixture of sorrow and gladness
C. Four quatrains
D. A rhyme scheme
A.
A question and tentative
answers, a turn, and a final
answer
What does the French
word
“renaissance”mean?
“rebirth”
In Europe, what civilizations’
writings received a renewed
interest?
Ancient Greece
and Rome
Where in Europe
did the
Renaissance begin?
Italy
What invention
helped spread the
new knowledge of
the Renaissance?
the printing press
Who was
nicknamed “the
Virgin Queen”?
Queen Elizabeth I
Make your wager
Who said the
following:
“To be a king and wear a
crown is more glorious to
them that see it than it is a
pleasure to them that bear it.”
Elizabeth I