Shakespeare Review

What sound does an iambic rhythm sound like?

• a heartbeat

• a drum

• the ocean

• birds singing

Iambic Pentameter means

• each line has five beats of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• there are five lines in each sonnet

• there are five lines in each stanza

• Shakespeare wrote five sonnets at a time

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

• 154

• 126

• over 9,000

• 77

The Fair Youth sonnets are dedicated to...

• Mr. W.H.

• Shakespeare

• the King

• the Dark Lady

imitating a style, author, or work for comic effect

• parody

• paradox

• connotation

• denotation

referring to one thing as something else in order to make a comparison

• metaphor

• paradox

• iambic pentameter

• parody

a statement that contradicts itself, or two ideas that cannot both be true

• paradox

• parody

• connotation

• denotation

Whom did Shakespeare love and admire most throughout his sonnets?

• the Fair Youth

• the Dark Lady

• his wife

• the Queen

In sonnet 2, Shakespeare wanted the Fair Youth to...

• have children.

• marry him.

• write poems.

• change his name.

In sonnet 18, Shakespeare tells the Fair Youth that his beauty will live on through...

• Shakespeare's poems.

• the Fair Youth's children.

• their memories of each other.

• the summer sky.