Sonnet 18 check for understanding

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

What does the word thee mean in the following line? "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

1. her
2. you
3. him
4. your

What is the extended metaphor in Sonnet 18?

1. comparing a sonnet and a summer day
2. comparing the subject and Shakespeare
3. comparing the subject and a summer day
4. comparing death and a summer day

How does Shakespeare compare the subject to a summer’s day?
The speaker describes the subject as:

1. more beautiful and calmer than a summer’s day.
2. almost as lovely as a summer’s day.
3. not as constant as a summer’s day.
4. not quite as bright or pleasant as a summer’s day.

What is the best meaning of temperate in the following line? "Thou art more lovely and more temperate"

1. mild
2. angry
3. hot
4. timely

What does the following line mean?
"And every fair from fair sometime declines"

1. All beauty will eventually fade.
2. As a fair travels from town to town, the equipment degrades.
3. Light colored skin can more easily burn.
4. Sometimes beauty will fade, but sometimes it lasts forever.

In the following line, the eye of heaven is a metaphor for: "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

1. lightening
2. the sun
3. an angel
4. love

What do the lines refer to?
"When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st"

1. lines in a drawing.
2. lines of poetry.
3. lines on a graph.
4. lines of song.

Next, the speaker says, "So long lives this and this gives life to thee." The word this refers to:

1. love
2. the summer
3. the sonnet
4. time

The speaker says, "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade." This is an example of which literary device?

1. onomatopeia
2. simile
3. alliteration
4. personification

Which line of the sonnet best demonstrates the major difference between the subject of the poem and the summer?

1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2. often is his gold complexion dimm'd
3. And every fair from fair sometimes declines
4. But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Which statement would the speaker of the poem most likely agree with?

1. Love is not fair.
2. Natural beauty lasts forever.
3. Summer is the best of the four seasons.
4. Literature can preserve people beyond their death.