FYBCOM UNIT 2.1 SONNET 116

What figure of speech is used in the following: "It [love] is an ever-fixed mark…"?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Which of the following best explains the line: "whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken…"?

• Love's actual worth cannot be known – it remains a mystery

• Love’s value can never truly be calculated, nor can it be measured.

• Love is very difficult to calculate.

• Love’s value ends when one dies.

In the lines: "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom," Shakespeare believes that true love is--

• Timeless

• Constant

• Strong

• Measurable

The marriage of true minds refers to:

• a union that is faithful

• This is a literal reference to the personification of two minds getting married

In sonnet 116, an alter refers to the place in the church where a priest or minister marries a couple or addresses a church...

• True

• False

In Sonnet 116 Shakespeare compares love to :

• an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken

• a star to every wandering bark

• both of these statements

The poem suggests that love is not true if it changes or "alters when it finds alteration".

• True

• False

When Shakespeare compares love to:

"it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is a star to every wandering bark,"

What type of comparison is Shakespeare using?

• simile

• metaphor

In this sonnet Shakespeare:

• explains how he actually has never written anything and no one has ever really been in love.

• explains the problem with not finding true love and explains how to find it.

• explains the problem with true love and how to fix it.

• explains what true love is and explains what it is not.

The last two lines of this sonnet:

• dare the reader to prove Shakespeare wrong.

• explain the solution to the problem in the sonnet