Sonnet 5

Most of the time, where is the theme of a sonnet revealed?

• 1st stanza

• First two lines

• Lines 10 and 11

• The last two lines

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Which of the following best summarizes Stanza 1 of Sonnet 5?

• Time will eventually take your beauty

• People will fight for love

• The seasons are inevitable

• It's not fair that you are so beautiful

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PART A: What is the meaning of the phrase "unfair which fairly doth excel" as it is used in Shakespeare's Sonnet 5.

• to cause to dissapear

• to destroy out of malice or spite

• to treat without justice or reason

• to make ugly what was once attractive

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PART B: What line from the poem provides the best support for PART A?

• "The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell" (line 2)

• "For never-resting time leads summer on " (line 5)

• "Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft" (line 11)

• "But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet (Line 13)

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What metaphor is employed in the second stanza?

• Seasons = aging

• Time = beauty

• Nature = Life

• Summer=Winter

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How does the word "prisoner" impact the meaning of line 10?

• It advances a negative connotation

• It implies that beauty is a positive thing

• It suggests that summer committed a crime

• It shows that the speaker has been jailed and misses his love

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Based on the context, what is a likely definition of "leese" as it is used in line 14?

• Borrow

• Lose

• Like

• Least

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PART A: Which statement best illustrates an overall theme from Shakespeare's Sonnet 5?

• Despite apparent loss, the essence of beauty transcends superficial changes.

• Not even beauty can resist the damaging effects of the passage of time.

• The fact that all things eventually perish is the source of the beauty of the present.

• Because time changes all things, one must consider what the future might bring.

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PART B: Which lines from the poem provide the best support for the answer to PART A?

• "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame/The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,/ Will play the tyrants to the very same" (Lines 1-3)

• "For never-resting time leads summer on/To hideous winter, and confounds him there" (Lines 5-6)

• "Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness everywhere:/Then were not summer's distillation left/A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass" (lines 8-10)

• "But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet,/Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet (Lines 13-14)

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Both sonnets explore all of the following topics EXCEPT -

• Beauty

• Death

• Perseverance

• Immortality

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