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What figure of speech is used in the following: "It [love] is an ever-fixed mark…"?
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Which of the following best explains the line: "whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken…"?
Love's actual worth cannot be known – it remains a mystery
Love’s value can never truly be calculated, nor can it be measured.
Love is very difficult to calculate.
Love’s value ends when one dies.
In the lines: "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom," Shakespeare believes that true love is--
Timeless
Constant
Strong
Measurable
The marriage of true minds refers to:
a union that is faithful
This is a literal reference to the personification of two minds getting married
In sonnet 116, an alter refers to the place in the church where a priest or minister marries a couple or addresses a church...
True
False
In Sonnet 116 Shakespeare compares love to :
an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken
a star to every wandering bark
both of these statements
The poem suggests that love is not true if it changes or "alters when it finds alteration".
True
False
In this sonnet Shakespeare:
explains how he actually has never written anything and no one has ever really been in love.
explains the problem with not finding true love and explains how to find it.
explains the problem with true love and how to fix it.
explains what true love is and explains what it is not.
The last two lines of this sonnet:
dare the reader to prove Shakespeare wrong.
explain the solution to the problem in the sonnet
According to this sonnet Shakespeare does not believe true love exists.
True
False
According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
True
Flase
Shakespeare wrote Sonnets in ______________ rhyme scheme.
ABABCDDCEFEFAA
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
ABBACDDCCDCDCD
ABBAABBACDCDCD
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