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A) 1609 B) 1588 C) 1616 D) 1599
A) 200 B) 120 C) 154 D) 100
A) ABC ABC DEF DEF B) AABB CCDD EEFF GG C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG D) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
A) Trochaic tetrameter B) Anapestic hexameter C) Dactylic dimeter D) Iambic pentameter
A) Statues of princes B) Masonry structures C) War memorials D) The poem itself
A) Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad B) Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales C) Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics D) Horace's Odes and Ovid's Metamorphoses
A) The poem is self-refuting as it keeps the young man mostly hidden B) It guarantees eternal life for both the poet and the subject C) It clearly describes the young man's physical features D) It focuses on the poet's own immortality
A) Shakespeare claims that only royalty can achieve immortality B) Shakespeare bestows immortality on another through his poetry, unlike Horace and Ovid who claimed it for themselves C) Engle believes Shakespeare's poetry is inferior to ancient works D) He argues that statues are more enduring than poetry
A) The grandeur of monuments B) The power of war C) The beauty of the young man D) The epithet 'sluttish time'
A) It highlights the resilience of masonry B) It signifies the purity of marble monuments C) It describes the weathering of stone statues D) It metaphorically refers to syphilis and its effects on the body
A) The speaker bestows grandeur on them when connected to the beloved, but mocks them otherwise B) The speaker only focuses on their physical attributes C) The speaker always regards them with contempt D) The speaker is indifferent to their connection to the beloved
A) The inevitability of death B) The glory of war C) The beauty of nature D) The keyword 'live'
A) The young man will only live physically until the Last Judgment B) He will cease to exist after his death C) 'Real' living is assigned to the day of the Last Judgment, but he also lives in memory and lovers' eyes D) His existence is limited to the poem itself
A) The British Museum B) The Globe Theatre C) Westminster Abbey D) The Folger Library
A) Italic hand B) Cursive script C) Gothic script D) Secretary hand
A) "Golden age" B) "Silent night" C) "Eternal spring" D) "Sluttish time"
A) "Obvious" B) "Living" C) "Shining" D) "Besmeared"
A) They shine brighter. B) They become 'unswept stone besmeared'. C) They are celebrated by all. D) They transform into golden statues.
A) Love B) Time C) War D) Death
A) "Die" B) "Forget" C) "Live" D) "Remember"
A) 16th Century B) 19th Century C) 18th Century D) 17th Century
A) Black ink B) Red ink C) Blue ink D) Brown ink
A) Westminster Abbey B) St. Paul's Cathedral C) The Tower of London D) Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
A) Sonnet 116 B) Sonnet 73 C) Sonnet 55 D) Sonnet 18
A) William Shakespeare B) Robert Evans C) Richard Briers D) An unknown author |