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 speaker's wife

The Dark Lady

The speaker's enemy

The Fair Youth
2 How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have?
12

8

15

14
3 How could the main point of the poem be summarized in one line?
Never get close to anyone because they will die

Life is only pain

It is bad to dwell on the past

Love heals all wounds
4 Why do some scholars critique Sonnet 30?
Court sessions are not poetic

It is too long

It is full of sexual double entendre

It changes mood too quickly
5 Which is NOT a repeated word in the poem?
Melancholy

Wail

Moan

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

7

2

11
7 What is "unused to flow" in the poem
The river

The speaker's ink pen

The speaker's eye

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
Synecdoche

Hyperbole

Personification

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

The young man

The speaker's thoughts

The speaker
11 What financial term is NOT used in the poem
Canceled

Bankrupt

Pay

Account
12 The final two lines of a sonnet are called a
Crescendo

Couplet

Conclusion

Denouement
13 “Drown an eye” is an example of
Metonymy

Paradox

Metaphor

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

The couplet

Listing of the speaker's woes

The legal motifs
15 What is a "volta"
The emotional power of a poem

A 14-line poem

The poet dropping his own name in a poem

The turn in a sonnet's argument
16 What is NOT a possible meaning of "sight" in the poem?
Something seen

A view

A sigh

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

fascimile

notebook

portfolio
18 Before remembering the past, the speaker is
Stoic

Angry

Crying

In love
19 The repeated "o" sounds in “Woe to woe tell o’er” is an example of
Hyperbole

Alliteration

Sibilants

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

To lie

To return

To count
21 What is NOT a thing making the speaker wail?
The passage of time

His advancing age

Lost friends

Regrets for the past
22 Shakespeare's sonnets are written in
Heroic meter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Rhyming couplets
23 The poetry describes memory as a
Bank account

Trap

Bad habit

Courthouse
24 What does the thought of the friend do to the speaker
Stop his heart

Stop his sorrow

Cause him to go back to the past

Make him lose his mind
25 What is NOT a tone present in the poem
Enraged

Melancholic

Grateful

Thoughtful

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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