A) 1616 B) 1599 C) 1609 D) 1588
A) 154 B) 100 C) 120 D) 200
A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG B) ABC ABC DEF DEF C) AABB CCDD EEFF GG D) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
A) Iambic pentameter B) Dactylic dimeter C) Anapestic hexameter D) Trochaic tetrameter
A) Masonry structures B) The poem itself C) War memorials D) Statues of princes
A) Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics B) Horace's Odes and Ovid's Metamorphoses C) Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad D) Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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) Engle believes Shakespeare's poetry is inferior to ancient works C) He argues that statues are more enduring than poetry D) Shakespeare bestows immortality on another through his poetry, unlike Horace and Ovid who claimed it for themselves
A) The grandeur of monuments B) The epithet 'sluttish time' C) The power of war D) The beauty of the young man
A) It describes the weathering of stone statues B) It signifies the purity of marble monuments C) It highlights the resilience of masonry 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 always regards them with contempt C) The speaker only focuses on their physical attributes D) The speaker is indifferent to their connection to the beloved
A) The inevitability of death B) The keyword 'live' C) The glory of war D) The beauty of nature
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 Folger Library B) The Globe Theatre C) The British Museum D) Westminster Abbey
A) Italic hand B) Secretary hand C) Cursive script D) Gothic script
A) "Sluttish time" B) "Golden age" C) "Silent night" D) "Eternal spring"
A) "Living" B) "Shining" C) "Besmeared" D) "Obvious"
A) They shine brighter. B) They are celebrated by all. C) They transform into golden statues. D) They become 'unswept stone besmeared'.
A) Death B) War C) Love D) Time
A) "Live" B) "Forget" C) "Remember" D) "Die"
A) 17th Century B) 19th Century C) 18th Century D) 16th Century
A) Brown ink B) Black ink C) Red ink D) Blue ink
A) Westminster Abbey B) The Tower of London C) Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon D) St. Paul's Cathedral
A) Sonnet 18 B) Sonnet 116 C) Sonnet 55 D) Sonnet 73
A) Robert Evans B) An unknown author C) Richard Briers D) William Shakespeare
A) Fair Youth sequence B) Dark Lady sequence C) Procreation sequence D) Rival Poet sequence
A) Four B) Two C) Three D) One
A) A series of poems by Shakespeare B) A collection of sonnets C) Two other epitaphs D) Letters from contemporaries |