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Week 9: An Introduction to Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet, Part 1 Answers

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Read the stanza from Shakespeare’s “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
to complain about the intense heat and humidity of summer
B
to persuade a loved one to visit during a warm season
C
to express love by likening a loved one to a nice day
D
to argue that hot weather is more pleasant than cold weather
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How is a poem's rhyme scheme marked and identified?

A
upper or lowercase letters, such as “ABAB”
B
Roman numerals, such as “I, II, I, II”
C
Arabic numerals, such as “1212”
D
punctuation symbols, such as “!?!?”
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Owen is writing about the central ideas in "Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare.But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

A
The author’s loved one will overcome physical death and summer is eternal.
B
Attraction, love, and mild summer days are all fleeting and soon disappear.
C
Beauty is not defined by the outward appearance, but by the character inside.
D
The author’s loved one will always remain beautiful in the lines of this poem.
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Which best defines a couplet?

A
A couplet is a stanza of four poetic lines.
B
A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
C
A couplet is three quatrains and two rhyming lines.
D
A couplet is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

A
four
B
five
C
eight
D
ten
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Read the line from “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare.But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

A
This hot summer will last forever.
B
You are eternal and will never die.
C
Your youthful beauty will not disappear.
D
My love for this season will go on and on.
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Erin is writing about the history of sonnets. Which is a fact Erin can include in her history?

A
Shakespeare was the first to create poetry as a sonnet.
B
Shakespeare was a poet who wrote only in sonnet form.
C
Sonnets were invented in Italy before Shakespeare’s time.
D
Sonnets were created by poets who wrote without rhyme patterns.
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Which best defines a quatrain?

A
A quatrain is a group of three stanzas.
B
A quatrain is a stanza of four lines.
C
A quatrain is a pair of rhyming lines.
D
A quatrain is a poem with fourteen lines.
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articles, such as “the” or “a”prepositions, such as “through” or “on”conjunctions, such as “and” or “but”nouns, such as “love” or “truth”

A
articles, such as “the” or “a”
B
prepositions, such as “through” or “on”
C
conjunctions, such as “and” or “but”
D
nouns, such as “love” or “truth”
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Ms. Jameson is using "Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare to teach her students how to analyze a rhyme scheme.So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

A
aa
B
AAA
C
ab
D
AB

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