Shakesperare´s sonnet 29

The message of Sonnets 29 and 30 could be summarized as

• there is no cure for sorrow

• love is the remedy for sorrow

• life is short, but art lasts forever

• it is better to keep busy than to lose oneself in thoughts and memories

What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• abba abba cde cde

• abba abba cdc cdc

• abca defd ghig jj

• abab cdcd efef gg

The turn after the first two quatrains of a Shakespearean sonnet usually signifies a

• summary of the poem’s theme

• sudden change in the speaker’s tone

• shift from one figure of speech to another

• shift in the poem’s focus or thought

Which of the following lines is an example of the turn in Sonnet 29?

• “I all alone beweep my outcast state,”

• “Haply I think on thee, and then my state,”

• “Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,”

• “Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,”

When the poem begins, the speaker

• is deaf

• almost despises himself

• desires to be an artist

• wishes everyone were like himself

Which of the following is a characteristic of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• has a rhyme scheme that begins cdcd

• uses unrhymed iambic pentameter

• ends with a couplet

• has sixteen lines

quatrains can be described as

• the final four lines of the sonnet

• the first four lines of the sonnet

• the first three stanzas of the sonnet

• the last three stanzas of the sonnet

A sonnet is—

• a drama consisting of five acts

• a fourteen-verse lyric poem

• a song with a repeated verse

• a speech given by a character to open a play

A couplet, a literary form used in many of Shakespeare’s works, is defined as

• a transitional phrase that carries the action from one act to the next in a multi-act play

• two rhyming lines that occur at the end of a poem or a character’s speech in a play

• a pair of characters in a play who speak in unison but about different things

• a six-line section of a Petrarchan sonnet that follows an abab rhyme scheme

Which of the following statements is true about William Shakespeare?

• he hardly had superior education

• he found literature as a real poor business

• he surely died on April 23rd, 1563

• he lost all his sons