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