Sonnet 18- William Shakespeare

What type of poem is this?

• Sonnet

• Ballad

• Haiku

• Rap

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is expressed in the Octave of a sonnet?

• Dilemma

• Nothing important

• Resolution

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is expressed in the Sestet?

• Resolution

• Dilemma

• Nothing important

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following is a distinctive feature of a Shakespearean sonnet?

• Rhyming Couplet

• abba, abba

• Enjambment

Shakespeare says the subject will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

• People will read about her in his poems

• She will die and go to heaven

• She will fall out of line

• People will know her because of her beauty

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

• strong winds destroy spring flowers
• Strong winds cannot touch the flowers
• Strong winds don't stand a chance against his love

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the metaphor in Sonnet 18?

• Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved
• Comparing his beloved to a summer's day
• Comparing Shakepeare to a summer's day
• Comparing his beloved to time

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What proof does the speaker offer for his assertion in Sonnet 18, that his Friend's "eternal summer shall not fade"?

• The friend will live in heaven.
• The speaker's love will prevent the friend from dying.
• The sonnet will immortalize the friend.
• Death will not brag after the speaker's friend dies.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The couplet in a Shakespearean Sonnet is there to

• explain the main theme and summarize the sonnet 
• extended the poem's metaphor
• provide a twist or conflict
• leave the reader with a lasting image

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare does all of the following except

• compare a persona favorably to a certain moment of the year
• assure the person addressed of some sort of immortality
• pay someone some very flattering compliments
• suggest that poetry is more interesting than most people

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9