Sonnets by Shakespeare

Shakespeare's sonnets
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This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.

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Shakespeare's sonnets

Slide 1 - Slide

Take a guess: A Shakespearean sonnet (poem) has how many lines?
A
8
B
14
C
18
D
24

Slide 2 - Quiz

Take a guess: Shakespeare wrote how many sonnets?
A
49
B
82
C
137
D
154

Slide 3 - Quiz

Shakespearean Sonnets
- A sonnet = 14-line poem
- Iambic Pentameter = emphasis on 2nd syllable (lettergreep)
                                             & every line has 10 syllables
   "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
- Sonnet originally comes from Italy
- 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets
- contained 154 poems

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Slide 5 - Video

Sonnet 18
- Compares the author's
   lover to a summer's day 
- While summer is lovely...
- ... his lover is more beautiful
   and kind
- A summer's day will end,
   his love for her will not

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Slide 7 - Video

Sonnet 116
= about the extreme ideal of love:
    - never changes
    - never fades
    - outlasts death
    - has no flaws
  

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Slide 9 - Video

Sonnet 130
- Joke on the conventions of love
- Doesn't praise his lover: 
      - not white as snow
      - no beautiful red lips
      - no golden hair
- Love doesn't need to be extreme
   to be real, against unrealistic ideals

Slide 10 - Slide

Iambic Pentameter is...
A
Emphasis on the first syllable
B
Emphasis on the second syllable
C
Emphasis on the meaning
D
Emphasis on the amount of lines

Slide 11 - Quiz

True or false: "In Sonnet 18, a summer's day is more beautiful than Shakespeare's lover."
A
True
B
False

Slide 12 - Quiz

Shakespeare wrote how many poems?
A
129
B
143
C
154
D
167

Slide 13 - Quiz

Sonnet 130 is a joke on the ...
A
conventions of love
B
conventions of loyalty
C
conventions of devotion
D
conventions of desire

Slide 14 - Quiz

Sonnet 116 describes an extreme ideal of love, which is not mentioned about love?
A
It never changes
B
It outlasts death
C
It has no flaws
D
It is invaluable

Slide 15 - Quiz

Literature Test
- Read & study all the background information

- Check the answers to the questions & study them

- Be prepared for open, multiple choice & true/false questions


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