WorksheetsSonnet 116
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The image of an 'ever fixed mark' is that of a ...
a)
Stain
b)
Memory
c)
Lighthouse
d)
Star
2.
What is a "wand'ring bark"?
a)
A ship at sea
b)
A dog
c)
A tree with deep roots
d)
A lost lover
3.
Which of the following best describes a quatrain?
a)
a poem of fourteen lines, typically featuring rhyme, meter, and logical structure
b)
type of metrical foot
c)
a four-line, typically rhyming unit of verse
d)
a two-line, typically rhyming unit of verse
4.
What is not personified in the poem?
a)
Death
b)
Time
c)
Love
d)
Doom
5.
What is the correct rhyme scheme for Sonnet 116?
a)
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
b)
ABBAABBA CDECDE
c)
ABABBCBCCDCDEE
d)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
6.
What do the following lines mean:
"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom."
"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom."
a)
Time always makes love look foolish
b)
Physical beauty diminishes
c)
Love lasts forever - beyond death
d)
Love is difficult
7.
The main message of the poem is the constancy and endlessness of love.
How is this reflected in the form of the poem?
How is this reflected in the form of the poem?
a)
Because the rhythm of the poem is like a heartbeat
b)
The poem has 14 lines
c)
The rhyme scheme of the poem reflects the melody of love
d)
Because the structure of the sonnet always remains the same like love
8.
What is a volta?
a)
Four lines from a sonnet
b)
Emotional twist and final argument
c)
The tone of the poem
d)
The main message of the poem
9.
In the rhyming couplet, Shakespeare says:
"If this be error..."
"If this be error..."
a)
He will write only about death and love only once more
b)
He'll never write another play and never love again
c)
He'll take back all his writing and no man has every truly loved
d)
He'll never love a woman again, only men
10.
Which of the following is not a main message of the sonnet...
a)
Constancy
b)
Death
c)
Devotion
d)
True love
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