1. Who is the T.T. in the dedication?
2. When were the Sonnets published?
3. How many lines in a sonnet?
4. How many feet in one line?
5. What Greek name do we give to this line of verse? What silly name do we give to this line of verse?
6. Which is the first ‘Muse’ sonnet? And how many of them are there?
7. Which 2 sonnets were published in 1599, 10 years before the rest?
8. What do sonnets 36 and 96 share in common?
9. In which sonnet is ‘a jewel (hung in ghastly night)’ ?
10. Which two sonnets are exactly halfway through the series?
11. Which 3 sonnets are not technically sonnets? And why?
12. Which 2 sonnets are known as the ‘Will’ sonnets?
13. Give two synonyms for Cupid, as used in the final 2 sonnets, 153 +154.
14. Why love Shakespeare?
Answers:
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1. Thomas Thorpe.
2. May 20th, 1609.
3. 14, with 2 exceptions.
4. 5 feet of 2 syllables.
5. Iambic pentameter. Banana Contaminator.
6. Sonnet 21. There are 10 Muse sonnets.
7. Sonnets 138 and 144. Printed in The Passionate Pilgrim.
8. Their final couplet.
9. Sonnet 27, line 11.
10. Sonnets 77 and 78.
11. Sonnets 99 (15 lines), 126 (6 couplets), and 145 (written in Tetrameter ie 4 feet to a line).
12. Sonnets 135 and 136.
13. The boy. The little love-god. The general of hot desire.
14. Well, why?