Sonnet 18 Quiz

What are the themes of love and beauty explored in Sonnet 18?

• Love and beauty

• Nature and art

• Friendship and loyalty

• War and peace

What is the structure and rhyme scheme of Sonnet 18?

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

• ABAB ABAB ABAB EF

• ABAB ABAB ABAB CD

• ABAB ABAB ABAB AB

How does Sonnet 18 express the theme of love and beauty?

• By describing the beloved as ugly and unattractive.

• By emphasizing the temporary nature of beauty.

• By comparing the beloved to a winter's day and highlighting their fading beauty.

• By comparing the beloved to a summer's day and highlighting their eternal beauty.

Which of the following best describes the main theme of the poem?

• Love takes time to develop between two people.

• Love is complicated and can be difficult to sustain.

• Like summer, love and poetry are brief but powerful.

• Unlike summer, love and poetry are constant and everlasting.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

This line from the poem is an example of----------------------

• an imagery

• a rhetorical question

• a metaphor

• personification

What kind of figurative language is used in this line?

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What kind of figurative language is used in this line?

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

The word 'quatrain' means-------------------

• quatrain, a piece of verse complete in four rhymed lines.

• quatrain, a piece of verse complete in eight rhymed lines.

• quatrain, a piece of verse complete in two rhymed lines.

• quatrain, a piece of verse complete in fourteen rhymed lines.

The word 'couplet' means

• A couplet is 4 lines of poetry that do not rhyme.

• A couplet is two lines of poetry that usually rhyme.

• A couplet is 4 lines of poetry that usually rhyme.

• A couplet is two lines of poetry that do not rhyme.

Match the following

• the act of owning or controlling

• possession

• rental agreement

• decline

• the skin and features of the face

• lease

• to diminish in health or strength

• untrimmed

• made or left plain

• complexion