Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day

Of the following options, which BEST describes the poem's theme or central argument?

• A summer's day is more beautiful than a person

• Art can make us immortal

• Beauty and youth fade

• Nature is ever changing

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Of the following options, which BEST describes the speaker's reason, practically speaking, for beginning the poem with a question?

• to help introduce the main idea of the sonnet

• to evoke the image of the beauty of a summer's day

• to make it clear that this is a love poem

• to get readers' attention

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which is the main literary device that the poet uses in the poem?

• dissonance

• symbolism

• metaphor

• narrative

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How many syllables does each line of the sonnet contain?

• 14

• 10

• 7

• the lines vary

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following lines signifies a shift in the poem?

• "And every fair from fair sometimes declines" (I.7)

• "B chance of nature's changing course untrimm'd (I.8)

• "But thy eternal summer shall not fade" (I.9)

• "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" (I.14)

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9