Sonnets
What is the sun?
The speaker's attitude toward the woman he loves
What is adoring?
The speaker says he would wait patiently for the woman he loves if
What is if there was no limit to our time on earth?
The literary term for "Like to break of day" in Sonnet 29
What is a simile?
The setting of pastoral poems
What is idealized?
The speaker in “To His Coy Mistress” approaches his subject with both humor and
What is urgency?
The meaning of "the star to every wandering bark" in Sonnet 116
What is a metaphorical fixed point his ship/boat can use to navigate?
Two things the shepherd offers the nymph
What is a bed of roses and a gown of wool?
The main idea of the poem is best expressed by the line
What is “Now let us sport us while we may”?
the word for a brownish-gray color used in Sonnet 130, My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
What the nymph feels love turns to in time
What is gall?
What the speaker in “To His Coy Mistress” calls a crime
What is coyness?
Standard Shakespearean sonnet structure (4 things)
What is ABAB CDCD rhyme scheme, 14 lines, three quatrains and a couplet, in iambic pentameter?
Meaning of these line's in "The Nymph's Reply":
“Thy gown, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,/Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies/Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,/In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
What is all of these things wear out in time, even love itself?
The lines “The grave’s a fine and private place/But none, I think, do there embrace” are an example of
What is understatement?