Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Quizzes

Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Quiz

1 Sonnet 30 is addressed to
The Dark Lady

The Fair Youth

The speaker's enemy

The speaker's wife
2 How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have?
15

14

12

8
3 How could the main point of the poem be summarized in one line?
It is bad to dwell on the past

Life is only pain

Love heals all wounds

Never get close to anyone because they will die
4 Why do some scholars critique Sonnet 30?
It changes mood too quickly

It is full of sexual double entendre

Court sessions are not poetic

It is too long
5 Which is NOT a repeated word in the poem?
Grieve

Melancholy

Moan

Wail
6 The major turn in the poem's argument comes at line
13

2

11

7
7 What is "unused to flow" in the poem
The river

The speaker's eye

The speaker's ink pen

The speaker's words
8 The poem is structured as one long ____ statement
If/then

Ironic

Hypothetical

Inconclusive
9 The phrase "sessions of sweet thought" is an example of
Personification

Synecdoche

Hyperbole

Alliteration
10 Who is hidden in "death’s dateless night"?
The speaker's friends

The speaker

The young man

The speaker's thoughts
11 What financial term is NOT used in the poem
Account

Canceled

Bankrupt

Pay
12 The final two lines of a sonnet are called a
Couplet

Denouement

Conclusion

Crescendo
13 “Drown an eye” is an example of
Paradox

Metaphor

Personification

Metonymy
14 What about the poem feels "tacked on" to some critics
Descriptions of the friend's beauty

Listing of the speaker's woes

The legal motifs

The couplet
15 What is a "volta"
The poet dropping his own name in a poem

The turn in a sonnet's argument

The emotional power of a poem

A 14-line poem
16 What is NOT a possible meaning of "sight" in the poem?
A sigh

Something seen

A view

An object
17 Sonnet 30 was published in a text called a
fascimile

notebook

quarto

portfolio
18 Before remembering the past, the speaker is
In love

Angry

Crying

Stoic
19 The repeated "o" sounds in “Woe to woe tell o’er” is an example of
Alliteration

Sibilants

Assonance

Hyperbole
20 What is an additional meaning of "to tell" as used in the poem
To count

To lie

To return

To yell
21 What is NOT a thing making the speaker wail?
Lost friends

His advancing age

The passage of time

Regrets for the past
22 Shakespeare's sonnets are written in
Dactylic hexameter

Rhyming couplets

Heroic meter

Iambic pentameter
23 The poetry describes memory as a
Courthouse

Trap

Bank account

Bad habit
24 What does the thought of the friend do to the speaker
Cause him to go back to the past

Stop his sorrow

Make him lose his mind

Stop his heart
25 What is NOT a tone present in the poem
Melancholic

Enraged

Thoughtful

Grateful

Sonnet 30 begins with: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought." Look at the repeated words in each line of the third quatrain: "Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,/ And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er,/ The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan

Demonstrates how he is reliving his past woes

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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

by William Shakespeare

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