What proof does the speaker offer for his assertion in Sonnet 18, that his beloved's "eternal summer shall not fade"?

The sonnet will immortalize his beloved.

The friend will live in heaven.

The speaker's love will prevent the friend from dying.

Death will not brag after the speaker's friend dies.

The third quatrain of the sonnet is there to

provide a shift, twist, or conflict

introduce the main theme or metaphor

summarize the sonnet and leave the reader with a lasting image

The couplet in a Shakespearean Sonnet is there to

summarize the poem by leaving the reader with a lasting image

In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare does all of the following EXCEPT

suggest that poetry is more interesting than most people

compare a persona favorably to a certain moment of the year

assure the person addressed of some sort of immortality

pay someone some very flattering compliments

In effect, in Sonnet 18, Shakespeare assures the person addressed that death

can be defeated by literary immortality

remains the enemy of seasons but not of youth

in a sense can be frustrated by those who die young

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is mainly about

The weather and wind in the summer

Read the lines below "But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st." How will his beloved defeat death?

By being immortalized in his sonnet

By being immortalized in nature

by being immortalized through a time experiment

Read the lines below "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." When he compared his beloved to the summer, he concluded that

she is lovelier than the summer

she is as beautiful as the weather in May

The structure of the Shakespearean Sonnet is

14 lines: 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet

16 lines: 3 quatrains and 2 rhyming couplets

16 lines: Octave and a rhyming couplet

Define iambic pentameter

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

a line of verse with ten metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of unstressed syllables

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of stressed syllables

What is the structure of the Petrarchan Sonnet

14 lines: Octave and a rhyming couplet

16 lines: Octave and a quatrain

16 lines: Sestet and 2 quatrains

The function of the Octave is

to present the main theme or metaphore

to make a prediction about the future

to extend the main theme or metaphor

What does the speaker describe “Laura” in sonnet 90?

She is immortalized in his poem

Read the lines below "a heavenly spirit, a living sun was what I saw; now, if it is not so, the wound's not healed because the bow goes slack." what does the “wound” in the last line refer to?

the wound of Cupid’s arrow, representing the speaker’s love

the wound of loving someone who is an angel

the wound of loving someone who is unkind

What is the main idea of the Octave in the sonnet "Spring"? "Zephyr returns, and scatters everywhere New flowers and grass, and company does bring, Procne and Pliopmel, in sweet despair, And all the tender colors of the Spring. Never were fields so glad, nor skies so fair: And Jove exults in Venus prospering. Love is in all the water, earth, and air, And love possesses every living thing."

The joys that Spring brings like the rebirth of flowers and love

People going out to parks to see the flowers bloom

People's happiness and love for nature

What is the main idea of the sestet in the sonnet "Spring"? But to me only heavy sighs return For her who carried in her little hand My heart’s key to her heavenly sojourn. The birds sing loud above the flowering land; Ladies are gracious now. –Where deserts burn The beasts still prowl on the ungreening sand.

How Spring brings only sorrow and sadness to the poet

How birds sing amidst the flowers

How there are beasts in the desert

What is the main idea of the Volta in the sonnet "Spring"? "But to me only heavy sighs return"

Spring reminds the poet of his unrequited love

How does imagery help us understand a story or peom?

Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see

By expressing the author's feelings

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Shakespeare says his beloved will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

People will read about her in his poems

She will die and go to heaven

She will fall out of line

People will know her because of her beauty

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Friend's eye

Sky

Sun

Moon

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

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