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Shakespeare's Sonnet Questions
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English
11th Grade
01/07/2009

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What is a rhyming couplet?
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2 rhymed lines that equal in length
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Where is a rhyming couplet often found?
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at the end of a sonnet
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How are figures of speech used in Shakespeare's sonnets?
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What is the theme of sonnet 18?
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LOVE, ETERNITY, TIME (The girl's beauty is compared to a summer day. She will never die because everytime sb reads the sonnet, she;s alive again.)
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What happens in sonnet 30?
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The narrator thinks about the past and weeps. But when he thinks of his friends, he feels happy again
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What happens in sonnet 116?
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Love is defined by telling what it is and is not.
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What does 12/2 and 8/6 mean when one is speaking about a sonnet?
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The way the sonnet is set up, question-answer
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