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