Review: Poetry & Sonnet 18

Which of the following best describes the effect of the use of figurative language in the poem?

• The speaker uses metaphors to compare his beloved to the summer, and criticizes the summer for being harsh and over too fast.

• The speaker personifies the sun, and makes it appear like the sun is a friendly individual who one would want to be compared to.

• The speaker personifies death to create conflict as he battles death for his beloved.

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Shakespeare's sonnet 18 compares a girl to..

• spring day
• summer's day
• nature
• his heartbeat 

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What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

• strong winds destroy spring flowers
• Strong winds cannot touch the flowers
• Strong winds don't stand a chance against his love

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Shakespeare says his mistress will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

• People will read about her in his poems 
• She will die and go to heaven 
• She will fall out of line

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In Sonnet 18, the "eye of heaven" refers to the

• Friend's eye
• Sky
• Sun
• Moon

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What is the meter in Sonnet 18 meant to sound like? (Every other syllable is stressed)

• A lawnmower
• The human heartbeat
• The flow of water

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A group of lines in a poem is a:

• rhyme

• stanza

• meter

• beat

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When sentences are CUT to form NEW lines, this is called...

• dash

• line break

• rhyme

• end

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Which set of lines RHYMES?

• night covers me/

  from pole to pole

• two roads diverged/

  I couldn't take both

• the wrath and tears/

  of many years

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_____ is a PATTern of STRESSED and UNstressed SYLLables

• line

• stanza

• meter

• alliteration

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