How Do I Love Thee

Who wrote Sonnet 43?

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Queen Elizabeth
• Elizabeth Gaskell

What era did the poet of Sonnet 43 live?

• Victorian
• Elizabethan
• Georgian
• Jacobean

Who did the poet write Sonnet 43 about?

• Her fiancé, Robert Browning
• Her father, Edward Barrett
• Her son, Robert Barrett Browning
• God

How many sonnets did Barrett-Browning write?

• 44

• 42

• 61

• 64

What type of narrator is used in Sonnet 43?

• First person
• Second person
• Third person
• Omniscient narrator

What technique does Barrett-Browning use to open her poem?

• Simile

• Rhetorical question

• Alliteration

• Emotive Language

Which quotation suggests the contentment of their marriage?

• 'My soul can research'

• 'In my old grief'

• 'Every day's most quiet need'

• ''Being and ideal Grace'

In Sonnet 43, what adverbs are used to describe the narrator's love?

• freely

• purely

• hopefully

• clearly

What does she use the triadic structure 'breath, smiles, tears' to show?

• She likes to smile with him

• Their love is complicated

• She loves him through everything - the good and the bad

• She can't breathe without him

In Sonnet 43, what does the quote 'I shall but love thee better after death' suggest?

• Their love is eternal

• The love will end once they have died

• Their love is dead

• The love isn't real until death