Sonnet 116

The image of an 'ever fixed mark' is that of a ...

• Stain
• Memory
• Lighthouse
• Star

What is a "wand'ring bark"?

• A ship at sea
• A dog
• A tree with deep roots
• A lost lover

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Which of the following best describes a quatrain?

• a poem of fourteen lines, typically featuring rhyme, meter, and logical structure
•  type of metrical foot
• a four-line, typically rhyming unit of verse
• a two-line, typically rhyming unit of verse

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What is not personified in the poem?

• Death
• Time
• Love
• Doom

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What is the correct rhyme scheme for Sonnet 116?

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• ABBAABBA CDECDE
• ABABBCBCCDCDEE 
• ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO

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What do the following lines mean:
_{"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom."}

• Time always makes love look foolish
• Physical beauty diminishes 
• Love lasts forever - beyond death
• Love is difficult

The main message of the poem is the constancy and endlessness of love.
How is this reflected in the form of the poem?

• Because the rhythm of the poem is like a heartbeat
• The poem has 14 lines
• The rhyme scheme of the poem reflects the melody of love
• Because the structure of the sonnet always remains the same like love

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What is a volta?

• Four lines from a sonnet
• Emotional twist and final argument
• The tone of the poem
• The main message of the poem

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In the rhyming couplet, Shakespeare says:
"If this be error..."

• He will write only about death and love only once more
• He'll never write another play and never love again
• He'll take back all his writing and no man has every truly loved
• He'll never love a woman again, only men

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Which of the following is not a main message of the sonnet...

• Constancy
• Death
• Devotion
• True love

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