S1 Final/ Sonnet 29/Studysync/Ashley

Sonnet 29 can be best described as

• metaphorical fist being shaken at fate
• request for friendship or favor
• most unflattering portrait
• statement of how happy memories change despair to contentment

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Sonnet 29 effectively uses or implies a number of contrasts, including all of the following except

• happiness and dicontent
• poverty and riches
• melancholy and great happiness
• spiritual love and earthly love

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the significance of the image of the lark (lines 11-12) to the meaning of Sonnet 29?

• The lark symbolizes immortality.
• The lark represents the effect that remembering the friend as on the speaker's spirits.
• The lark is contrasted to the wealth derived from remembering the friend's "sweet love."
• The lark represents a state inferior to that of kings.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ("when in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")?

• Even when life is horrible, love can make it bearable.
• Love bears all things and endures all things.
• Sometimes when you love, you lose.
• Being envious of others' lives can lead you down the wrong path.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a volta?

• Four lines from a sonnet
• Emotional twist and final argument
• The tone of the poem
• The main message of the poem

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When the poem begins, the speaker

• is deaf

• almost despises himself

• desires to be an artist

• wishes everyone were like himself

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9