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Question

1. What is the basic form of a sonnet?

fourteen lines
eight lines
twelve lines
six lines plus a rhyming sestet

2. In Spenser's Sonnet 75, the speaker writes his love's name in the sand. What is his main message to his love in this poem?
He will love her forever.
His poem will make their love immortal.
Their love has survived great suffering.
The pleasures of love end with death.

3. These lines are from Spenser's Sonnet 1:

When ye behold that angel's blessed look, / My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.

Restating this thought in a simpler way is an example of what?

predicting
inferring
paraphrasing
summarizing

4. Which is the best paraphrase of this line from Spenser's Sonnet 35?

All this world's glory seemeth vain to me . . .

The greatest things in life seem meaningless to me.
The world is a great place to live.
I have not received the glory and honor I have earned.
The wonders of this world are too great to enjoy in a short life.

5. In Sidney's Sonnet 39, the speaker asks sleep to “make in me those civil wars to cease.” What does he mean by “civil wars”?

a quarrel between the speaker and Stella
the speaker's anger toward society
the war going on in England between the common people and the king
the conflict and despair he feels because of his love for Stella

6. How is a Spenserian sonnet different from a Petrarchan sonnet?

A Spenserian sonnet was always written as part of a sequence.
A Spenserian sonnet deals with love and the natural world.
A Spenserian sonnet has a different rhyme scheme.
A Spenserian sonnet has a different number of lines.

7. Which characteristic of Shakespearean sonnets is found in Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130?

fourteen lines plus a rhymed couplet
an idealized view of love and life
a conclusion in the final two lines
an irregular rhyme scheme

8. What is the theme of Sonnet 29?

The speaker must learn to live with his disappointments.
The memory of the speaker's beloved makes up for all of life's troubles.
Life's greatest disappointment is to live alone.
Even a hopeless love is better than any other experience.

9. In Sonnet 106, Shakespeare talks about his beloved's beauty. What does he mean when he says we “lack tongues to praise”?

We do not like to make compliments.
We do not have the skill to describe her beauty.
We are no longer able to say romantic things.
We do not say certain things out loud.

10. How does Shakespeare describe love in Sonnet 116?
Love is eternal.
Love is humorous.
Love is brief.
Love is harsh.

11. What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 in these final lines?

If this be error, and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won't believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love.
What I've said is not a mistake because I am a writer and men have fallen in love.
I may be mistaken in what I've said, but I am still a writer and men still fall in love.
You don't have to believe me, but you must believe I am a writer and that men fall in love.

12. What is the tone of Sonnet 130?

hopeful and happy
anxious and sad
serious and angry
humorous and realistic

13. What does the speaker do in each quatrain of Sonnet 130?

He praises his beloved.
He makes fun of his beloved.
He speaks to his beloved.
He laments the loss of his beloved.

14. Why does the nymph reject the shepherd in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?

Time will pass and the joys of youth will fade.
She has no desire to live in the country.
She loves another and will not leave him.
She grew tired of waiting and married another.

15. What is the speaker's attitude toward love and youth in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?

Youth never experiences true love.
Youth is the only time for love.
Love and youth are endless.
Love and youth are brief.

16. What does the speaker mean in this line from “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?

But could youth last and love still breed . . .

As people get older, love fades.
Young people do not know the meaning of love.
Love will outlast time.
Only young people are able to love completely.
Vocabulary and Grammar

17. Which word best completes this sentence?

The poet had worked all night to complete the sonnet, but at dawn it remained unfinished. Defeated, his spirit ____ at his desk.
deigned
devised
assayed
languished

18. Which word in this sentence should be capitalized?

In their amazement like narcissus vain / Whose eyes him starved: so plenty makes me poor.

Amazement
Narcissus
Eyes
Plenty

19. What is a participle?
a verb form that usually ends in -ment
a verb form that usually ends in -ed or -ing
a noun form that is used as an adverb
a noun form that usually ends in -ness

20. Which sentence contains an adjective phrase?
The shepherd pleads with his love.
He takes her to the meadow.

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