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