Literary Devices
This literary devices compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is simile
A sonnet contains this many lines.
What is 14?
"Temperate" most nearly means this.
What is moderate or mild?
One thing both beauty and summer eventually experience is this.
What is fading or ending?
Find evidence that summer doesn't last forever. Write the line number on your board.
What is Line 4?
Shakespeare compares the speaker's beloved to this season.
what is summer?
Shakespeare's sonnets are typically written in this type of rhyme scheme.
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
"Lease" in line 4 means this temporary period.
What is a rental or allotted time?
The speaker claims the beloved's beauty will never do this.
What is fade?
Find evidence that beauty eventually fades. Write the line number(s) on your board.
What are Lines 7-8?
"Death boast" is an example of this device because winds cannot literally shake things on purpose.
What is personification?
The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called this.
What is a couplet?
"Complexion" refers to this.
What is appearance or coloring?
The poem suggests that writing can make a person achieve this.
What is immortality?
Find evidence that the speaker thinks the beloved is better than summer. Write the line number(s) on your board.
What are Lines 1-2?
This literary device is used throughout the poem as the speaker compares his beloved to summer.
What is a metaphor?
This is the name for the poem's rhythm pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
"Untrimmed" suggests this idea.
What is losing beauty or fading?
The central idea of the poem is that poetry can do this.
What is preserve beauty forever?
Find evidence that death cannot claim the beloved. Write the line number on your board.
What are Lines 11-12?
The phrase "eye of heaven" refers to this.
What is the sun?
A shift in meaning or tone within a poem is called this.
What is a volta?
"Possession of that fair thou ow'st" refers to possessing what?
What is beauty?
The speaker believes the beloved is more lovely and more what than summer?
What is temperate?
Find evidence that poetry preserves the beloved forever. Write the line number on the board.
What are lines 13-14?