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Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
23.
The reference to the “wandering bark” is what type of literary device?
a. Simile
b. Synecdoche
c. Dissonance
d. Allusion
24.
In line 2, what does the word “impediments” means?
a. Inconsistencies
b. Obstacles
c. Independence
25.
26.
What is the theme of Sonnet 116?
a. True love remains steady
c. Love changes as life changes
d. Virtues
b. Even the strongest love is temporary
d. Age and time alter love
Why could the final line be considered ironic?
a. “Writ” is spelled incorrectly
b. This is not geometry class, so there can be no proof
c. It negates the previously 13 lines
d. Shakespeare has obviously written, so the
statement must be true
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
43.
What might the use of words like “faith,” “Grace,” “Right,” “Praise,” and “God” suggest?
a. The speaker’s love is almost as serious as religion
b. The speaker loves God
c. The speaker personifies various random ideas
d. The speaker doesn’t believe
in the afterlife
44.
What does the title of this poem suggest?
a. This poem was actually translated from another language
b. This poem was written by someone other than the author
c. The author sought to obscure her true feelings
d. This is a Portuguese sonnet rather than an Elizabethan sonnet
45.
What is the intended audience for this poem?
a. The speaker’s lover
b. All men
audience
c. All women
d. A broad
46.
The rhyming couplet suggests that this will happen to love after death?
a. Love will end after death.
b. Love will grow stronger after death.
c. Love will stay the same after death.
d. No one knows what will happen to
love after death.
Open Response Question:
Select any one of the poems above. Explain what would be a suitable title for the poem. In doing so,
explain how the author uses literary devices and the sonnet form to convey his/her theme.