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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The speaker is confessing _____________ to the lady.

• crime

• hate

• love

• secret

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

He is like ________________.

• ice

• wind

• fire

• earth

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

She is like _______________.

• fire

• air

• light

• ice

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Is the speaker successful in winning the lady?

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9