What does sonnet 75 by edmund spenser mean

Unit 3 Evaluation Twelfth Grade English 1 ENGH 043 060 This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you can use your textbook, syllabus, and other course materials. You will need to understand, analyze, and apply the information you have learned in order to answer the questions correctly. To submit the evaluation, follow the directions in your online course. Part A: Multiple-Choice Select the best answer for each question. _____ 1. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” what does the speaker urge his love to do? a. b. c. d. _____ forgive him for loving another run away with him to the city come live with him in the country help him feed his flocks 2. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” what is the speaker’s attitude toward the woman he loves? a. b. c. d. _____ 3. Why does the nymph reject the shepherd in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”? a. b. c. d. _____ anxious adoring confident considerate Time will pass and the joys of youth will fade. She has no desire to live in the country. She loves another and will not leave him. She grew tired of waiting and married another. 4. What is the speaker’s attitude in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”? a. b. c. d. Unit Evaluation 3 agreeable passionate realistic insulted 1 ENGH 043 _____ 5. Read the following lines from “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and determine what they mean: “Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, / Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies / Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, / In folly ripe, in reason rotten.” a. b. c. d. _____ None of these things matter if love is true. The joys the shepherd promises will fade. The reasons for these things have changed. The nymph does not love the shepherd. 6. Read the following lines from “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and determine what the speaker is describing: “Time drives the flocks from field to fold, / When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, / And Philomel becometh dumb . . .” a. b. c. d. _____ 7. What is the basic form of a sonnet? a. b. c. d. _____ the coming of winter the end of love a new pleasure to experience marriage fourteen lines eight lines twelve lines six lines plus a rhyming sestet 8. In Spenser’s “Sonnet 1,” the speaker says the pages in his love’s hands are “like captives trembling at the victor’s sight.” What theme does this line support? a. b. c. d. _____ The speaker’s poem is not worthy of his love. The speaker is a hopeless captive at the mercy of his love. The speaker’s beloved is cruel to treat him the way she does. The speaker’s beloved is a better poet than he is. 9. In Spenser’s “Sonnet 75,” what is the speaker’s main message to his love? a. b. c. d. Unit Evaluation 3 He will love her forever. His poem will make their love immortal. Their love has survived great suffering. The pleasures of love end with death. 2 ENGH 043 _____ 10. Read the following lines from Spenser’s “Sonnet 1” and identify the leaves the speaker mentions: “Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands, / Which hold my life in their dead doing might, / Shall handle you . . .” a. b. c. d. tree leaves the woman is holding the woman’s hair the pages containing the speaker’s poems the speaker’s hands _____ 11. Restating a thought in a simpler way is an example of a. b. c. d. predicting. inferring. paraphrasing. summarizing. _____ 12. Read the following line from Spenser’s “Sonnet 35” and determine the best way to paraphrase it: “All this world’s glory seemeth vain to me. . .” a. b. c. d. The things the world considers great in life seem meaningless to me. The world is a great place to live. I have not received the glory and honor I have earned. The wonders of this world are too great to enjoy in a short life. _____ 13. In Sidney’s “Sonnet 31,” what does the moon symbolize? a. b. c. d. lost chances natural beauty all life on earth a constant ideal _____ 14. Which characteristic of Shakespearean sonnets is found in Sonnets 29, 106, 116, and 130? a. b. c. d. fourteen lines plus a rhymed couplet an idealized view of love and life a conclusion in the final two lines an irregular rhyme scheme _____ 15. What is the theme of “Sonnet 29”? a. b. c. d. Unit Evaluation 3 The speaker must learn to live with his disappointments. The speaker’s love makes up for all his problems.