Sonnets 30 & 75 Edmund Spenser

“What more miraculous thing may be told

That fire which all things melts, should harden ice

The speaker wonders why the more he pleads with his beloved ...

• the closer she draws near to him

• the colder she becomes

• the more her ice melts

• the further she runs from him

"“What more miraculous thing may be told

That fire which all things melts, should harden ice" The speaker asks why his beloved’s coldness does not

• cool his desire

• dissolve their relationship

• delay their marriage

• fade away

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

That it can alter all the course of kind. “ The speaker concludes that ...

• their love is dying

• his beloved is preparing to leave him

• he should give up on his beloved

• love has supernatural powers

"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away". The setting of the poem is....

• The speaker's beachhouse

• On board a ship

• Along the beach

• in heaven

"A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise." What does the speaker’s beloved say about his efforts to write her name in the sand?

• She asks him to keep trying so that she can see her name written in the sand.

• She says it is pointless because, just as she will die someday, her name will be wiped out and forgotten

• She scolds him for doing such a ridiculous thing

• She praises his efforts for immortalizing her name.

"To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."

Why does the speaker say that his beloved’s name, as well as their love, will last forever?

• Because he has written about them in his poetry.

• Because they have become famous.

• Because songs about her virtues will be sung throughout eternity.

• Because the heavens will declare her glorious name.

A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

• English Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.

• iambic pentameter

• iambic tetrameter

• trochee pentameter

• trochee tetrameter

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What is a quatrain?

• A poem made up of 4 stanzas

• A group of 4 authors working together

• A stanza made up of 4 lines

• A train made up of 4 cars

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Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.

• Sestet

• Iamb

• Quatrain

• Couplet

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