Sonnet 18 - Analysis Quiz

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

Question Answer Choices The mood and tone are both joyful and carefree. The mood and tone are both angry and resentful. The mood and tone are both somber and melancholic. The mood and tone are both affectionate and frustrated.

What is the main theme of "Sonnet 18"?

Question Answer Choices The power of love. The fleeting nature of summer. The inevitability of death. Eternal beauty through verse.

How does Shakespeare describe the rough winds in Sonnet 18?

Question Answer Choices Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. Rough winds make the flowers bloom. Rough winds bring a pleasant breeze. Rough winds calm the summer skies.

What does the poet claim will preserve the beauty of his beloved in Sonnet 18?

Question Answer Choices The eternal lines of the poem. The power of love. The changing seasons. The memory of their time together.

What does Shakespeare claim will keep his beloved immortal in Sonnet 18?

Question Answer Choices The poem itself. The beloved's beauty. A summer's day. The poet's love.

In Sonnet 18, what does the metaphor 'Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade' symbolize?

Question Answer Choices Unchanging beauty Death and mortality The power of love Eternal youth

In Sonnet 18, how does Shakespeare describe his friend's beauty compared to a summer's day?

Question Answer Choices His friend's beauty is fleeting like a summer's day. His friend's beauty is eternal and surpasses a summer's day. His friend's beauty is as inconsistent as a summer's day. His friend's beauty is less temperate than a summer's day.

What does Shakespeare say about the duration of summer in Sonnet 18?

Question Answer Choices Summer's days are always perfect. Summer's beauty never fades. Summer's warmth lasts forever. Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

What do the last two lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 suggest about the beloved?

Question Answer Choices The beloved's love for the poet will last forever. The beloved will be forgotten after death. The beloved will be immortalized by the poem. The beloved's beauty will fade like a summer's day.

What does Shakespeare use to symbolize the passage of time in Sonnet 18?

Question Answer Choices Architectural metaphors Historical events and figures Nature references and allusions Mythological creatures