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Flashcards by Leah Parren, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Leah Parren
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| In Sonnet 116, according to Shakespeare, what is love? | -Love is marriage -You will always love someone even if they stop loving you -Love will guide you -Love will always withstand arguments -Love doesn't change over time. |
| In Sonnet 116, according to Shakespeare, what is love not? | -Love cannot happen in a certain amount of time -Love is not a task, it comes naturally |
| What rhyme scheme do Sonnets usually use? | Iambic Pentameter. |
| In the first few lines of Sonnet 116, what theme can you see in some of the words? | An echo of a marriage ceremony E.g. 'impediments' and 'alters' |
| What does the line 'That looks on tempests and is never shaken;' suggest? | That love can withstand the largest of arguments ('tempests') and will not be damaged. |
| What does the line, 'It is the star to every wand'ring bark,' suggest? | That love will guide you when you feel lost. The word 'bark' refers to a ship. |
| What can we infer from the line, 'Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,'? | That love never changes over time, no matter how long that period of time is. |
| What does the line, 'But bears it out even to the edge of doom.' suggest? | 'edge of doom' refers to Doomsday which is the end of the world, therefore the line suggests that love will last forever. |
| What is Shakespeare trying to say in his final rhyming couplets? | Shakespeare argues that if anyone can prove him wrong, he never wrote and no one ever really loved. |
| When Shakespeare refers to 'his', what is he referring to? | Time |
| What does Shakespeare mean when he writes, 'Love's not Time's fool,'? | That love is more powerful than time. |
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