Known all around the world for being arguably the world’s greatest playwright, it’s easy to forget that William Shakespeare was also a seasoned poet. What can you tell us about his work? Let’s find out!
Love
Mortality
The passage of time
All of the above
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John Dryden
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
All of the above
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Three quatrains and a final couplet in trochaic pentameter
Five quatrains and a final couplet in iambic hexameter
Two quatrains and a final couplet in iambic tetrameter
Three quatrains and a final couplet in iambic pentameter
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1600
1609
1619
1630
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Double the length
Three times the length
Four times the length
Five times the length
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The Dutch signed a twelve year truce with Spain ushering in the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
Galileo demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
Cosimo II de Medici became the Grand Duke of Tuscany
All of the above
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Forsooth
Proof
Truth
Uncouth
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God
The sun
The moon
A raincloud
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Mr. W. H.
Mr. A. R.
Mr. P. S.
Mr. W. S.
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Essentialists
Existentialists
Fatalists
Materialists
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A fair lady
A rival poet
A dark lady
A fair youth
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Simile
Paradox
Hyperbole
Eponym
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154
160
164
170
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Time, that devours all things
Time, that always returns
Time, that keeps moving
Time, that stops all things
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Harvest
Death
Life
Winter
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Charity and penitence
Organ donation and embalming
Literature and fatherhood
Sculpture and music
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With a lack of decoration and frills
Like the sails on a ship which have not been adjusted to catch the wind properly
Unruly or disorganised
All of the above
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Simile
Metaphor
Paradox
Anadiplosis
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Slowness
Resistance
A baby’s way of moving
All of the above
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1580s
1590s
1570s
1610s
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Unvarying
Illusive
Ephemeral
Perplexing
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Antanagoge
Simile
Parataxis
Oxymoron
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S
P
L
N
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Henry Thorpe
Frederick Thorpe
Thomas Thorpe
James Thorpe
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The rival poet and author
The dark lady and fair youth
The author and fair youth
The dark lady and rival poet
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The fourth
The second
The first
The third
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The procreation sonnets
The procrastination sonnets
The propagation sonnets
The promulgation sonnets
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Confidence
Love
Youth
Happiness
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Similarities
Doubts
Wrinkles
Eyes
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A fair lady
A rival poet
A dark lady
A fair youth
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Green leaves
Fire
Ashes
Death bed
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The fair youth
The dark lady
The rival poet
None of the above
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The rhythm of the words in the sonnet
The speaker’s heartbeat
The changing seasons of the year
The passing of time in our lives
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Miguel de Cervantes
Thomas Campion
Ben Jonson
William Wordsworth
The sonnet
Their anger
The youth’s good looks
Nature
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The closure of Catholic convents and monasteries as a result of Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy
The closure of Protestant convents and monasteries as a result of Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy
The closure of Catholic convents and monasteries as a result of Henry VII’s Act of Supremacy
The closure of Catholic convents and monasteries as a result of Henry VII’s Act of Union
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Indifference
Joviality
Light-heartedness
Romantic intimacy
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Paronomasia
Paranomesia
Paranormasia
Paranormesia
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Aelus
Aegae
Aevum
Aedivum
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120
122
124
126
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Hyperbole
Paradox
Metaphor
Simile
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2
3
4
5
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Regard
Perceive
See
Behold
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Past, future
Past, present
Present, past
Future, present
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Night
Life
Time
The Devil
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Travel
Military
Economics
Food
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A venereal disease
Lies
A broken heart
Insanity
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A Lover’s Concern
A Lover’s Conceit
A Lover's Complaint
A Lover’s Complacency
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