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WorksheetsHow Do I Love Thee
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who is considered as the first author of "How Do I Love Thee"?
William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Barett Browning
Christina Rossetti
William Wordsworth
What kind of figurative speech are present in "How Do I Love Thee"? (select two)
simile
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
metaphor
How many lines does this sonnet have?
4
20
41
14
What is its rhyme scene?
cdcdcdabbaabba
abbaabbacdcdcd
bbaabbaadccd
bbaabbaacdcdcd
Sonnet was derived from the Italian word called ______?
sonneto
sonetto
sonteno
sonnetto
What kind of meter is present on Sonnet 43?
Spondaic
Trochaic
Iambic
Dactylic
Who is considered as the "Greatest Dramatist of All Times"?
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
When was William Shakespeare born?
June 13, 1620
March 18, 1520
April 14, 1418
April 23, 1564
What does the word "sonetto" means?
short story about life
expressing one's feelings
little sound or song
poem
What is the original form of sonnet?
Petcharan
Petrarchan
Petirchan
Perchantran
A sonnet can be broken into how many parts?
10
5
4
8
How many sonnets were published by Shakespeare?
200
120
130
154
Which is an example of a metaphor?
I love thee freely, as men strive for right
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise
I shall but love thee better
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach
Sonnet was introduced to England by Thomas Wyatt and _____?
Henry Howard
Charles Howard
Anne Boleyn
Dorothy Neville
What kind of tone is present in the poem "How Do I Love Thee"?
Devastated
Lovely
Tragic
Romantic
Since "How Do I Love Thee?" is a Petrarchan sonnet, what kind of stanzas does it have?
An octave and a sestet
7 couplets
2 quatrain and a couplet
2 sestets and 1 couplet
What can you say about the rhyme from the line:
"I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death."
It has an interior rhyme wherein the rhyming words appear within the same line
It has no rhyme
It has end rhyme which means the rhyming words are at the end of the lines
It has an interior and an end rhyme
What kind of point of view is used in the line,
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height"?
First
Third
Second
What kind of personal poem expresses extreme emotions?
Lyrical
Narrative
Concrete
What type of lyrical poem consists of 14 lines?
Elegy
Haiku
Sonnet
Ode
