Starter quiz
- It is rumoured that Barrett Browning's poem 'Sonnet 29' is autobiographical. This means...
- It is influenced by her own relationship with her husband. ✓
- It is written about her best friend's relationship with her husband.
- It is entirely fictional and based on characters from the Bible.
- It is written about characters from a famous Greek myth.
- It was translated from a Portuguese folk tale.
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- In 'Sonnet 29', Barrett Browning presents a __________ view of love.
- bitter and resentful
- sad and heart-breaking
- joyous and uplifting ✓
- curious and conflicted
- anxious and fearful
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- In the final line of 'Sonnet 29', the speaker says "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee". Why does she say this?
- Her lover has died and will never return so she avoids thinking about him.
- She refuses to think about him as he has left her and broken her heart.
- When the couple are reunited and she no longer relies on her fantasy thoughts. ✓
- Her obsessive thoughts have driven her insane.
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- During which century did Elizabeth Barrett Browning live and write?
- 16th
- 17th
- 18th
- 19th ✓
- 20th
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- Sonnets were typically written about which topic?
- 'love' ✓
- Read this quotation from 'Sonnet 29' - "my thoughts do twine and bud". Which word class are the words "twine' and "bud"?
- nouns
- adjectives
- adverbs
- verbs ✓
- prepositions
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