Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth Quizzes

Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth Quiz

1 What do both of the lovers in the poem do to each other?
Cheat

Ignore

Hate

Lie
2 Which is NOT a name for the type of sonnet this is?
Petrarchan

English

Elizabethan

Shakespearean
3 What does the speaker lie about?
Cheating on his mistress

How beautiful his lover is

His earlier marriages

His age
4 What is love's best habit?
"swearing that she is made of truth"

"seeming trust"

"thinking that she thinks me young"

"crediting her false-speaking tongue"
5 "False-speaking tongue" is an allusion to
Sexually transmitted diseases

Adam and Eve

Pinocchio

The art of rhetoric
6 What is the "volta" of a sonnet?
Opening line

Turning point

Contradiction

Most famous line
7 Which of the following is an example of personfication
Age in love

Seeming trust

False-speaking tongue

Untutored youth
8 "Made of truth" is an example of
Hyperbole

Allusion

Foreshadowing

Synecdoche
9 "I do believe her, though I know she lies" is an example of
Hyperbole

Paradox

Metaphor

Understatement
10 What is a sexual or risqué play on words called?
Double entendre

Double profanity

Lying

Explicit
11 Which is not an important or repeated word in the poem?
Cheat

Fault

Flattered

Lie
12 What is NOT a meaning of the verb "to credit" used in the poem?
To give an award

To give money

To believe

To accept
13 The lover in the poem is generally known as the
Dark Lady

Cheating Mistress

Lying Mistress

Bad Lady
14 A Shakespearean sonnet ends with a
Flourish

Couplet

Metaphor

Moral
15 Which words do not contain assonance?
vainly thinking

years told

false subtilties

untutored youth
16 The poem uses which meter?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetramater

Heroic couplets
17 Which is NOT one of the ways this sonnet differs from more more traditional Petrarchan sonnets
It describes love

It describes a cheating woman

It treats lies as something good

It describes an non-ideal relationship
18 The earliest version of Sonnet 138 was published in a book called
The Passionate Pilgrim

The Merry Maiden

The Shakespearean Sonnet

The Dark Dame
19 How does the speaker try to appear younger
He acts inexperienced

He takes on a younger man's habits

He has a younger man pretend to be him

He dresses like a younger man
20 What is a difference between the 1599 and 1609 versions of the poems?
The earlier version has a more beautiful lover

The later version is longer

The earlier version is more judgmental

The later version has more metaphors
21 In the context of the sonnet, "unjust" means
Dishonest

Judgmental

Unfair

Mean
22 "Age in love" describes
The author

The speaker

The lover's other lover

The lover
23 What is a secondary meaning of habit?
Lying

Clothing

Cheating

Sex
24 "Love" and "lies" is an example of
Alliteration

Irony

Personification

Metonymy
25 Why does the speaker want to appear like an "untutored youth"
To appear younger

To right his mistakes

To return to his childhood love

To go back to happier days

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