What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

Strong winds destroy spring flowers

Strong winds cannot touch the flowers

Strong winds don't stand a chance against his love.

What is the metaphor in Sonnet 18?

Comparing his beloved to a summer's day.

Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved

Comparing Shakespeare to a summer's day.

Why did Shakespeare choose Iambic pentameter over other forms of poetic meter?

Queen Elizabeth liked it the best

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

People will read about her in his poems.

People will know her because of her beauty.

In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare does all of the following except

suggests that poetry is more interesting than most people

pay someone some very flattering compliments

assure the person addressed of some sort of immortality

compare a person favorably to a certain moment of the year

Which line from the sonnet explain why the subject's beauty will be remembered forever?

"And every fair from fair sometime declines,/By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;"

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade/Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;"

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate;"

What two solutions does Shakespeare suggest in his Sonnets?

marrying and having children - poetry

marrying and having children - nature

death - marrying and having children

In effect, in Sonnet 18, he 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

it is easily avoided and defeated

Sonnet 18

Quiz

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English

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8th - 10th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Hard

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CCSS

RL.8.4, RL.8.10, RL.8.5

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35 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which poetic device is used in the following line of Sonnet 18: "Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade"

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Allitteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is the poet addressing?

a summer's day

nature

his lover

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the poetic meter that Shakespeare wrote in?

Trochaic meter (stressed-unstressed)

Iambic pentameter (unstressed-stressed)

Dactylic meter (stressed-unstressed-unstressed)

Spondaic meter (stressed-stressed)

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The last 'part' in a Shakesperean sonnet is called.......

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A sonnet contains_________lines

12

4

14

16

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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

The sonnet will immortalize the friend.

Death will not brag after the speaker's friend dies

The friend will live in heaven.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following lines are an example of_____________?
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Free verse

A theme

A quatrain

A couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Sonnet 18

35 questions

Which poetic device is used in the following line of Sonnet 18: "Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade"

Who is the poet addressing?

What was the name of the poetic meter that Shakespeare wrote in?

The last 'part' in a Shakesperean sonnet is called.......

A sonnet contains_________lines

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

The following lines are an example of_____________?
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Which of the following poets end his poems with a couplet?

The first 'part' of a sonnet contains_____lines.

What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

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Sonnet 18

35 questions

Which poetic device is used in the following line of Sonnet 18: "Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade"

Who is the poet addressing?

What was the name of the poetic meter that Shakespeare wrote in?

The last 'part' in a Shakesperean sonnet is called.......

A sonnet contains_________lines

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

The following lines are an example of_____________?So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Which of the following poets end his poems with a couplet?

The first 'part' of a sonnet contains_____lines.

What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

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The following lines are an example of_____________?
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.