Day 2 - Sonnet 18

Multiple Choice

Which lines in 'Sonnet 18' form the final couplet?

• Lines 1-2

• Lines 13-14

• Lines 5-6

• Lines 9-10

Open Ended

How do lines 5-8 develop the speaker’s ideas about beauty fading away?

Multiple Choice

How do lines 9-12 of Sonnet 18 create a shift in the poem’s meaning?

• They change the focus from nature’s beauty to the lasting beauty of the beloved.

• They introduce a new season to contrast with summer.

• They describe how the speaker’s feelings begin to fade.

• They shift from personal reflection to historical facts.

Open Ended

Collaborative Practice (ELA.7.R.3.4)

Identify two examples of rhetorical devices in the poem. Explain the meaning or significance of each example. (Be prepared to share)

Multiple Choice

What is the main purpose of the metaphor in the line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

• To say the person is hot like summer

• To suggest the person is as unpredictable as the weather

• To show the person is more beautiful and lasting than summer

• To describe the person’s favorite season

Multiple Choice

What does the personification, or giving human traits to something non-human, when he says, “Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade”?

• The person will never die

• The person will be forgotten after death

• The person’s beauty will live on through the poem

• Death is afraid of the person