Provenance
Shakespeare
According to Sonnet 18, which endures (lasts longer):
the love of beauty or a season of summer?
the love of beauty
Does Sonnet 18 compare or compare and contrast "thee to a summer's day".
compare and contrast
How many lines in a couplet?
Two
"Nor shall death brag"
(One technique)
personification
In which year were Shakspeare's Sonnets published?
1609
According to Sonnet 18, which is more reliable:
the love of beauty or a season of summer?
the love of beauty
What are "the darling buds of May"?
- the pretty flowers that bloom in late spring
- the pitiful plants that decay in late autumn
the beautiful flowers that bloom in late spring
How many lines in a quatrain?
Four
"And often is his gold complexion dimm'd."
(Two techniques)
personification
imagery
Why did Shakespeare spend the 1590s writing sonnets?
Plague had closed the theatres
Are Shakespeare's summer months the same as ours?
No.
In English, do we write the names of the seasons with a capital letter? Yes or no.
No.
A sonnet has three quatrains and finishes with one couplet. How many lines in a sonnet?
14
"And every fair from fair sometime declines"
(Three techniques)
repetition (fair)
high modality (every)
Was Shakespeare English, Scottish or Irish?
English
The main theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is the enduring beauty of p__________?
Choose from: popularity, poetry, plays, people, plague.
poetry
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
In this quote, is "this" the beauty described in the poem or the poem itself?
the beauty described in the poem
The rhyming pattern in the first quatrain of a sonnet is (choose one):
- ABAB
- AABB
- ABBA
- None
ABAB
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
(Three techniques)
anaphora
alliteration
personification
Which English monarch reigned during most of Shakespeare's productive output of sonnets?
Queen Elizabeth I
What are Shakespeare's two main criticisms of the summer season?
Too hot and too short
In Sonnet 18, what would death have to "brag" about?
Death hopes we will die, and he wins when it finally happens.
The rhyming pattern in the couplet of a sonnet is:
- AA
- BB
- GG
- None
GG
"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date"
(Four techniques)
- Personification (summer is just a tenant who occupies a brief time in the year)
- Alliteration (do, darling, date)
- Metaphor (summer's lease)
- Imagery (ferocity of the weather)