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- 1. Multiple Choice
Elizabeth was married to which other poet?
Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
Robert Browning
Dljit Nagra
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which type of sonnet is 'I Think of Thee'?
Shakespearean sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet
Basic sonnet
I didn't know there were different types.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How do we describe the meter of the sonnet?
Iambic pentameter
Iambic quadrameter
Trochaic trimeter
irregular trochaic trimeter
- 4. Multiple Choice
The first eight lines of a sonnet....
Don't matter
Establish a problem
Describe the lover's thoughts
Tell a complete story
- 5. Multiple Choice
The problem is resolved at the end of the poem in the last six lines, these are called a........
Resolution
Denoument
Sestet
Heroic couplet
- 6. Multiple Choice
Throughout this poem, Elizabeth describes Robert as a tree. This is an example of what?
Pathetic fallacy
A simile
An extended metaphor
Zeugma
- 7. Multiple Choice
Elizabeth uses a metaphor to describe her thoughts as revolving around Robert as if they were....
caught in his gravity
vines twining about a tree
a swingball
the sun going around the earth
- 8. Multiple Choice
Elizabeth is thinking about Robert so much because...
He is not with her at the moment
She loves him so much
She wants to leave him
She is thinking of asking him to marry her
- 9. Multiple Choice
Elizabeth asks Robert to come home with the phrase ...
Renew thy presence
Come back
Return to myself
Get thyself here
- 10. Multiple Choice
Robert coming home to her is described as...
Deep joy
Ultimate fulfillment
A climax
Sincere happiness
- 11. Multiple Choice
Elizabeth regards herself as being ....
Robert's inferior
In Robert's shadow
Robert's servant
Robert's superior
- 12. Multiple Choice
The final line does what to the title of the poem
Expends upon it; 'I am near thee'
Reverses it; 'I am too near thee'
Echoes it; 'I think of thee'
Changes it; 'I am thee'
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