A. Compares his love to a winter storm
B. Compares his love to a summer’s day
C. Compares his love to a turbulent sea
D. Compares his love to his fear of death
Related Mcqs:
- Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 153” is what kind of poem ?
A. A poem about death
B. A poem about love
C. A poem about writing poetry
D. A poem about Shakespeare and his father - According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt. - In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?
A. Marlowe
B. Swift
C. Oxford
D. Bacon - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?
A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
D. None of the above - Where does the sonnet form originate from ?
A. England
B. Spain
C. France
D. Italy - Which one of the following terms is often called for the England’s national poet, William Shakespeare ?
A. Bard of London
B. Bard of Avon
C. Master Dramatist
D. Supreme Poet - The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
A. The Taming of the Shrew
B. As you Like it
C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
D. Titus Andronicus - Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?
A. Elliot
B. Kipling
C. Cummings
D. Brooke - Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
A. Robert Frost
B. R. W. Emerson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Edgar Allen Poe
