A. A poem about death
B. A poem about love
C. A poem about writing poetry
D. A poem about Shakespeare and his father
Related Mcqs:
- In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”, the poet does which of the following ?
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 - 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. - 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 - 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 - Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to________________?
A. Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
B. Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
C. William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
D. Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton - 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. - 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 - Where does the sonnet form originate from ?
A. England
B. Spain
C. France
D. Italy - Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ?
A. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines.
B. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-ef,g-g.
C. A sonnet is only written in Italian.
D. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet. - What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?
A. They both address the theme of death.
B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
C. They are both set in rural New England.
D. All of these answers
