Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 18 Questions and Answers

What is the mood and tone of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

How does Shakespeare compare his friend's beauty with the summer's day in Sonnet 18?

What metaphors and symbols are used in Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare? Is the summer a symbol for youth?

Please explain the last two lines of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.

What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

What are the similes and/or metaphors in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

What are some literary devices used in Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare? Is it an example of the pathetic fallacy?

What is an example of personification in Sonnet 18?

How does Shakespeare's use of the image "the eye of heaven" in Sonnet 18 refer, not only to the sun, but convey something apart from the sun?

In line 7 of Sonnet 18, what idea does the speaker emphasize by using alliteration? What does the word "fair" means in this context? How might something "fair" decline?

What does "sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" from Sonnet 18 mean?

In Sonnet 18, Line 12, "When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st" what are possible meanings for the word "lines?"

Why does Shakespeare compare the young man to a summer's day in Sonnet 18?

Why do you think Shakespeare begins Sonnet 18 with a question?

What are three problems that the poet finds with a summer's day in Sonnet 18 in lines 1-4: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more...

How does Shakespeare glorify/immortalize his friend in "Sonnet 18"?

What different figures of speech are in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

What does "this" refer to in line 14 of Sonnet 18?

What is the moral lesson of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

Why is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 so famous?

In Sonnet 18, what does the poet mean by "Thou art more lovely and more temperate"?

What is the figure of speech in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Why is the speaker’s loved one more lovely than a summer’s day in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

In Sonnet 18, how does the message shift in line 9? What word signals this shift?

Analyze the meter of the following four lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18:

Where are the stressed syllables in Sonnet 18?

What does the speaker mean by “eternal lines to time” (line 12)? What is the connection between those eternal lines and the prediction he makes in lines 9–11?

Explain the meaning of Shakespeare’s closing couplet in "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" How can this assertion function logically?

How is death personified in line 11 of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

In lines 5–6 of Sonnet 18, how is the sun personified? What does the use of this device reveal about summer?

Explain the denotation, connotation, theme, and mood in Sonnet 18.

What is meant in line 8 in Sonnet 18, which is "By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd?"

What meter is used in Sonnet 18?

Could you please give the explanation of this line in "Shall I compare thee to summers day?" 'and summer's lease hath all too short a date'

What is the main purpose of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare?

How does Shakespeare use language for effect in Sonnet 18?

In Shakespeare's sonnet 18, what kind of figure of speech is used in the line "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade"?

What is the effect of repeating the words "not" and "nor" in lines 9–11 of Sonnet 18?

Who is the audience in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

What does the word "this" refer to in line 14 of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

What are the cause-effect relationships depicted in lines 7–8 of Sonnet 18?

What are the changes that happen to the summer sun according to "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (Sonnet 18)?

What figure of speech is used in Sonnet 18, line 11: "Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade"?

Explain why the comparison of the poet’s love to a summer’s day is not appropriate in Sonnet 18.

In lines 3–4 of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, what does the speaker reveal about summer?

Do you think that the speaker has been successful in immortalizing his love in the words of Sonnet 18? To what extent is this only a poetic device?

In Sonnet 18, how can the poet's beloved be eternal?

I was told that there is a problem and then its answer in each of Shakespeare's sonnet. What's the problem in sonnet 18?

Why is the "eye of heaven" in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 neither constant nor trustworthy?

What is the style, technique, and language of Sonnet 18?