Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Sonnet 147? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The phrase "my love is as a fever" is an example of what?
assonance
simile
enjambment
alliteration
Q. Which line features an example of personification?
"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright"
"Desire is death"
"My reason, the physician to my love"
"Past cure I am"
Q. The phrase "as black as hell, as dark as night" is an example of what?
rhetorical question
caesura
a scary movie
parallelism
Q. What's the fancy technical term for how the speaker addresses his mistress in the last two lines of the sonnet, even though she's not actually present in the poem?
apostrophe
onomatopoeia
end-stop
haiku