Question

1. What characteristic unique to Shakespearean sonnets is found in "Sonnet 29", "Sonnet 116", and

"Sonnet 130"?
(1 point)
(1 pt) three quatrains and a rhyming couplet
(0 pts) a steady rhyme scheme
(0 pts) 14 lines

2. What is the tone of Sonnet 130 which begins "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"? (1 point)
(0 pts) hopeful and happy
(0 pts) mocking and contemptuous
(1 pt) humorous and realistic

3. Which figure of speech is used in the line below from "Sonnet 130"?
"If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head."
(1 point)
(0 pts) simile
(1 pt) metaphor
(0 pts) p

Answer 1

The answers are the following:
1. A) three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.
Most of Shakespeare's sonnet have same structure which is three quatrains (a stanza of four lines), and a couplet (a stanza of two lines).
2. C) humorous and realistic.
The poet is describing the person he love the most in a strange way.3. B) metaphor.Metaphor is a figure of speech that compare things without the the use of any comparative words such as "like" "as".