Sonnet 94

How many lines does a sonnet have?

How many quatrains are they divided into?

• 14

  3 quatrains

• 14

  4 quatrains

• 15

  3 quatrains

• 15

  4 quatrains

Sonnet 94 is one of the ———— sonnets of Shakespeare.

What is a paradox?

• one of a pair of words with opposite meanings, with each word in the pair being the antithesis of one another.

• contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition

• exaggeration

What figure of speech does the phrase

‘Lilies that fester’

Hold?

• Sibilance

• Oxymoron

• synecdoche

• Hyperbole

In what year did Shakespeare write ‘Sonnet 94’?

• 1609

• 1609

• 1590

• 1599

Name the figure of speech for the following phrases

; a) ‘summer sweet’

; b) ‘base infection’

; c) ‘themselves as stone’

; d) ‘cold and to temptation slow’

• A) sibilance

  B) hyperbole

  C) simile

  D) adjectives

• A) assonance

  B) oxymoron

  C) metaphor

  D) alliteration

• A) alliteration

  B) pathetic fallacy

  C) hyperbole

  D) paradox

• A) sibilance

  B) metaphor)

  C) simile

  D) assonance

What does the author imply by the phrase

‘Husband nature’s riches from expense’?

• They spend their husband’s earned wealth.

• The husband’s avoid expenses.

• They protect wealth from expense. Do not waste it on unnecessary things.

• I do not know

Match the lines with their appropriate words:

a) line 1 & 2

b) line 3 & 4

c) line 5 & 6

d) line 7 & 8

• a) miser, stingy

  b) deceptive

  c) stoic

  d) hypocrites

• a) hypocrite

  b) stoic

  c) miser, stingy

  d) deceptive

• a) stoic

  b) deceptive

  c) hypocrite

  d) miser, stingy

• a) miser, stingy

  b) stoic

  c) deceptive

  d) hypocrites

What is the message Shakespeare conveys throughout the poem?

Describe the rhyming couplets (2-3 lines)