Sonnet 18 Reading Quiz

The rhetorical question in line 1 asks whether or not the speaker should compare the subject of the sonnet “to a _____ day.”

• summer’s

• spring

• fall

• winter’s

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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

The only month actually mentioned in the sonnet is _____.

• March

• May

• June

• July

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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

What is referred to with the metaphor “eye of heaven”?

• the sun

• death

• G-d

• the moon

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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 basically says that the subject of the sonnet will always be _____ and _____.

• youthful and attractive

• intelligent

• humble and kind

• loved and protected

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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

The speaker personifies _____ by saying that it won’t be able to “brag” that the subject of the sonnet “wander’st in his shade.”

• beauty

• death

• the sun

• the moon

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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

The final couplet of the sonnet basically means _____ (write one sentence in your own words).

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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

Why does Shakespeare abbreviate the final word in the line “When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st”? (Write ONE complete sentence of explanation.)

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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

The “eternal lines” to which the speaker refers most likely refer to _____.

• this sonnet

• the speaker’s diary

• the entrance line at heaven’s gate

• the wrinkles in the subject’s furrowed forehead

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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