Shakespearean Sonnet Review

In Sonnet 18, the "eye of heaven" refers to the

• Friend's eye
• Sky
• Sun
• Moon

In Sonnet 18, the "eye of heaven" is an example of

• smilie
• paradox
• alliteration
• personification

What proof does the speaker offer for his assertion in Sonnet 18, the 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 th speaker's friend dies.

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

In effect, in Sonnet 18, Shakespeare assures the person addressed that death

• is easily avoided and defeated
• remains the enemy of seasons but not of youth
• can be defeated by literary immortality
• in a sense can be frustrated by those who die young

Sonnet 29 can be best described as

• metaphorical fist being shaken at fate
• request for friendship or favor
• most unflattering portrait
• statement of how happy memories change despair to contentment

Sonnet 29 effectively uses or implies a number of contrasts, including all of the following except

• happiness and dicontent
• poverty and riches
• melancholy and great happiness
• spiritual love and earthly love

What is the speaker's mood in the first eight lines of Sonnet 29?

• anger
• contentment
• joy
• despair

What is the significance of the image of the lark (lines 11-12) to the meaning of Sonnet 29?

• The lark symbolizes immortality.
• The lark represents the effect that remembering the friend as on the speaker's spirits.
• The lark is contrasted to the wealth derived from remembering the friend's "sweet love."
• The lark represents a state inferior to that of kings.

In the sonnet that begins with "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" (Sonnet 30), what effect does "remembrance of things past" have on the speaker?

• sadness
• joy
• nostalgia
• bewilderment