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