How Do I Love Thee

What kind of tone is present in the poem "How Do I Love Thee"?

• Devastated

• Lovely

• Tragic

• Romantic

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What kind of figurative speech are present in "How Do I Love Thee"? (select two)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Since "How Do I Love Thee?" is a Petrarchan sonnet, what kind of stanzas does it have?

• An octave and a sestet

• 7 couplets

• 2 quatrain and a couplet

• 2 sestets and 1 couplet

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What kind of meter is present on Sonnet 43?

• Spondaic

• Trochaic

• Iambic

• Dactylic

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• I love thee freely, as men strive for right

• I love thee purely, as they turn from praise

• I shall but love thee better

• I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What can you say about the rhyme from the line: "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."

• It has an interior rhyme wherein the rhyming words appear within the same line

• It has no rhyme

• It has end rhyme which means the rhyming words are at the end of the lines

• It has an interior and an end rhyme

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What kind of point of view is used in the line,

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height"?

• First

• Third

• Second

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Sonnet 43 expresses

• the poet’s intense love for her husband-to-be

• the poet's intense longing for freedom

• the poet's intense desire to live her chosen life

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does this line mean? "I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;"

• gladly- as how a person choose to live the right way

• bravely - and just as strongly as a person fights for what's right

• willingly- and just as intensely as men who fight for freedom

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Who is 'thee' in the poem?

• Robert Barret

• Barret Browing

• Robert Browning

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9