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Final Jeopardy
 Sonnet     Spenser’s                              The
                        Sonnet 18   Sonnet 29
  On It      Sonnets                            Renaissance


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How many sonnets did
 Shakespeare write?
A. 95
B. 100
C. 154
C. 154
Which of the following statements is not true
  in regards to the sonnets?
A. Each of the sonnets follows the rules of the
   sonnet form.
B. Each sonnet has a logical organization of
   ideas.
C. Each sonnet has sixteen lines.
D. The order of them was probably published
   without Shakespeare’s consent.
C. Each sonnet has
16 lines. (Each has
        14.)
In the form known as the
  Shakespearean       sonnet,    the
  requirements are that the
  fourteen lines are divided into:
A.Three quatrains and a couplet
B. Four quatrains
C. Six couplets and a quatrain
A. Three quatrains
   and a couplet
Which of the following statements is
 NOT true of iambic pentameter:
A. It is a rhyme scheme Shakespeare
  invented.
B. One line consists of five metrical
  feet of poetry.
C. An “iamb” is an unstressed and a
  stressed syllable in a line of poetry.
A. It is a rhyme
    scheme
  Shakespeare
 invented. (He
    didn’t.)
In a Shakespearean sonnet, which below is
  the correct logical organization?
A. A situation, a question, followed by an
  answer.
B. A question and tentative answers,
   followed by a turn and a final answer.
C. A setting, rising action, a climax, falling
  action, and a resolution
D. A conflict; possible solution; a resolution
B. A question and tent-
tative answers, followed
by a turn and a final
answer
The first line in Sonnet 30 -
My love is like to ice, and I to fire

contains which literary device?
A. rhyme                C. metaphor
B. alliteration         D. simile
D. simile
What is the rhyme scheme in the
 following Spenserian sonnet?
My love is like to ice, and I to fire
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
A. AABB           C. ABCD
B. ABAB           D. ABAC
B. ABAB
In Spenser’s Sonnet 75, what is
  the meaning of the word
strand:
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away;
A.wet concrete    C. tree
B. sand           D. tattoo
B. sand
In the lines
What more miraculous thing may be told

That fire which all things melts, should harden ice…

what literary device does
Spenser use?
A.rhyme B.paradox C.allusion D.satire
B. paradox
“Not so,” quod I, “let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verses your virtues shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.”
What is the idea about love Spenser makes?
A.The sonnet preserves their love and people still read about it.
B.The poet believes his love more beautiful than earthly things.
C. Love can change the natural tendencies of things.
D. Love is stronger than death.
A. The sonnet preserves their
  love and people still read
          about it.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
What is the literary term for these four lines?
A. a quatrain              C. rhyming couplet
B. iambic hexameter        D. all of these
A. a quatrain
What is the meaning of the line
And summer’s lease hath all to short a date.

A. Summer lasts too long.
B. Summer is the least season.
C. A date is like a summer’s day.
D. Summer is too short.
D. Summer is too
     short.
What literary device is
 used in this line:
And summer’s lease hath all to short
 a date.
A. hyperbole      C. metaphor
B. Alliteration   D. simile
C. metaphor
Identify the line which contains the turn in Sonnet 18:
                  Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
                 Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
               Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
               And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

              A. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
               And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
               And every fair from fair sometime declines,
           By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.

               B. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
              Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
            Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade
               When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st

             C. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
             D. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
B. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
    What is the turn in a
    Shakespearean sonnet?
A. the climax of the poem
B. an example of instruction in the poem
C. the resolution of the poem
D. the shift in focus or thought in the
  poem
D. the shift in focus or thought in
              the poem
   What is the best paraphrase of this,
      the first line of Sonnet 29?
When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
A. When I am a disgrace to myself

B. When life has dealt harshly to me and
   others think little of me

C. I am sick because I am not as beautiful as I
   once was

D. I have nothing to live for in my old age
B.When life has dealt harshly to
  me and others think little of me
      How are these lines best understood?
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
A. The poet wishes to leave his lover a large inheritance.
B. The feelings the poet has for his beloved have changed.
C. The poet sees his love as of lesser value than money.

D. The poet sees his love as better than any amount or kind
   of wealth.
 D. The poet sees his love as better
than any amount or kind of wealth.
What literary device is used
 in the following line from
 Sonnet 29?
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
A. simile        C. personification
B. Metaphor      D. allusion
A. simile
Identify the turn in the following lines:
A. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope
   Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
B. Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
  With what I most enjoy contented least;
C. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
D. Haply I think on thee, and then my state
   Like to the lark at break of day arising….
C. Yet in these thoughts
myself almost despising,
In a Shakespearean sonnet, the 14 lines
  can be understood to have a formal
  organization, consisting of:
A. A question and tentative answers, a
  turn, and a final answer
B. A mixture of sorrow and gladness
C. Four quatrains
D. A rhyme scheme
A.   A question and tentative
     answers, a turn, and a final
     answer
What does the French
       word
“renaissance”mean?
“rebirth”
In Europe, what civilizations’
 writings received a renewed
           interest?
Ancient Greece
  and Rome
 Where in Europe
     did the
Renaissance begin?
Italy
 What invention
helped spread the
new knowledge of
the Renaissance?
the printing press
   Who was
nicknamed “the
Virgin Queen”?
Queen Elizabeth I
Make your wager
     Who said the
      following:
“To be a king and wear a
crown is more glorious to
them that see it than it is a
pleasure to them that bear it.”
Elizabeth I