Sonnet 30 Poem by Edmund Spenser

"My love is like to ice, and I to fire;" is an example of....

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

The speaker is confessing _____________ to the lady.

• crime

• hate

• love

• secret

He is like ________________.

• ice

• wind

• fire

• earth

She is like _______________.

• fire

• air

• light

• ice

Is the speaker successful in winning the lady?

• Yes

• No

What happens as the speaker continues and try to win the lady's love?

• She falls for him.

• Nothing happens.

• She becomes colder towards him.

• She loves someone else.

The words "ice" and "fire" in line 1 of Sonnet 30 tell you that the speaker...

• feels excited for the woman

• feels rejected by the woman

• feels passion for the woman

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?

The question in lines 2-4 of Sonnet 30 reveals a speaker who is...

• confused at the nature of love

• confused at the rejection of love

• confused at the hardness of love

Or how comes it that my exceeding heat

Is not delayed by her heart-frozen cold:

But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,

And feel my flames augmented manifold?

Which question best summarizes the major idea of

line 5-8 of Sonnet 30

• How can her hotness create more cold in me?

• How can his coldness create more heat in me?

• How can her coldness create more heat in me?

Such is the pow’r of love in gentle mind,

That it can alter all the course of kind.

The last two lines Sonnet 30 reveal that

• Love is a powerless force.

• Love is a powerful force.

• Love is worthless force.