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 speaker's enemy

The Fair Youth

The Dark Lady
2 How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have?
15

14

8

12
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

Love heals all wounds

It is bad to dwell on the past
4 Why do some scholars critique Sonnet 30?
It is full of sexual double entendre

It changes mood too quickly

Court sessions are not poetic

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

Moan

Grieve

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 speaker's eye

The speaker's words

The river

The speaker's ink pen
8 The poem is structured as one long ____ statement
Hypothetical

Ironic

If/then

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

Synecdoche

Personification

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

Pay

Canceled

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

Crescendo

Denouement

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

Personification

Metonymy

Metaphor
14 What about the poem feels "tacked on" to some critics
Listing of the speaker's woes

The legal motifs

The couplet

Descriptions of the friend's beauty
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

A view

An object

Something seen
17 Sonnet 30 was published in a text called a
fascimile

notebook

portfolio

quarto
18 Before remembering the past, the speaker is
Stoic

In love

Crying

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

Assonance

Alliteration

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

To return

To yell

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

Regrets for the past

Lost friends

His advancing age
22 Shakespeare's sonnets are written in
Dactylic hexameter

Heroic meter

Iambic pentameter

Rhyming couplets
23 The poetry describes memory as a
Bad habit

Courthouse

Trap

Bank account
24 What does the thought of the friend do to the speaker
Cause him to go back to the past

Stop his heart

Make him lose his mind

Stop his sorrow
25 What is NOT a tone present in the poem
Enraged

Thoughtful

Grateful

Melancholic

This is an example of both imagery and symbolism, helping us understand the speaker's deep sorrow over the absence of his loved ones... the emotion and the tears.

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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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Give a reference to the context

The speaker of “Sonnet 30” has a lot of sorrow, regret, and disappointment. The context of the poem's first twelve lines generally involves the speaker's griefs in detail, moving from frustrated ambition to grief over the deaths of "precious...

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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

by William Shakespeare

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

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