Sonnets
In Sonnet 18, why does Shakespeare point out in the final couplet that the subject is the poem is better than any summer's day?
What is because they will live (last) forever in this poem
What does the shepherd want from the nymph in return for his gifts?
What is to come with him and be his love?
The latin phrase that means "seize the day"
What is Carpe Diem?
Some of the "ideals" of beauty that Shakespeare says his mistress is nothing like in Sonnet 130
eyes not like the sun, skin brown not white, lips not coral, feet tread on the ground, breath reeks, voice not musical
What are three of the gifts the shepherd offers the nymph?
What is a gown of wool, buckles of gold, UGGs, straw belt, coral studs...
"That age is best which is the first" refers to what part of life?
What is youth?
Two elements of life that are personified in Shakespeare's sonnets
What are time and death
What does the nymph say would get her to agree to the shepherd's proposal?
What is If time and love lasted forever
What is the word the Cavalier poets use to mean "hard to get"?
What is coy?
What relief from self-loathing and jealousy does the speaker find in the final lines of Sonnet 29?
Remembering that he is loved convinces him not to want to change his life with a king's
What are two of the problems the nymph points out with the shepherd's proposal?
What is she can't trust his words, winter is coming, love and youth don't last
The lines “The grave’s a fine and private place/But none, I think, do there embrace” are an example of
What is understatement?
Standard Shakespearean sonnet format (four elements)
What is 14 lines, three quatrains and a couplet, iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
The meanings of gall and wither
What is bitterness and to fade
The term for an argument that has an "if, but, therefore" structure is called
What is a syllogism?