Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130

Which characteristic of Shakespearean sonnets is found in Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130?

• fourteen lines plus a rhymed couplet

• an idealized view of love and life

• a conclusion in the final two lines

• an irregular rhyme scheme

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What is the theme of Sonnet 29?

• The speaker must learn to live with his disappointments.

• The memory of the speaker’s beloved makes up for all of life’s troubles.

• Life’s greatest disappointment is to live alone.

• Even a hopeless love is better than any other experience.

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How do the speaker’s feelings change between the beginning and the end of Sonnet 29?

• They change from hopeless to thankful.

• They change from fearful to courageous.

• They change from joyful to sorrowful.

• They change from hopeful to grateful.

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What is the speaker’s problem that is revealed in the three quatrains of Sonnet 29?

• His beloved has left him.

• His beloved does not return his love.

• He is absorbed in feelings of self-pity.

• He is a frustrated artist.

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In Sonnet 106, Shakespeare talks about his beloved’s beauty. What does he mean when he says we “lack tongues to praise”?

• We do not like to make compliments.

• We do not have the skill to describe her beauty.

• We are no longer able to say romantic things.

• We do not say certain things out loud.

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How does the sonnet form affect the content of the poem?

• It uses chronological order in the first three quatrains.

• It follows the same rhyme scheme throughout.

• It shortens ideas so they fit into four-line quatrains.

• It requires that its content be about romantic love.

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Where does the rhymed couplet appear in Shakespearean sonnets?

• at the end of each quatrain

• at the beginning of each quatrain

• in the first two lines of the poem

• in the final two lines of the poem

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How does Shakespeare describe love in Sonnet 116?

• Love is eternal.

• Love is humorous.

• Love is brief.

• Love is harsh.

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What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 in these final lines?

If this be error, and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

• If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won’t believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love.

• What I’ve said is not a mistake because I am a writer and men have fallen in love.

• I may be mistaken in what I’ve said, but I am still a writer and men still fall in love.

• You don’t have to believe me, but you must believe I am a writer and that men fall in love.

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Which lines rhyme in each Shakespearean sonnet?

• lines 1 and 2; lines 3 and 4

• lines 1 and 4; lines 2 and 3

• lines 1 and 3; lines 2 and 4

• lines 3 and 4

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