21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

Frago, Roxanne T. 12-HUMSS 9

DLP #3 Ms. Karla Joy Monsanto

SONNET 116
FIGURES OF SPEECH
Metaphor
When one concept or thing is replaced with another to
highlight their similarity and relationship, this is known as a
metaphor.
- Love is compared to the North Star in this sonnet because it
is constant and unchanging, and it helps with navigation in
life in the same manner that the North Star does for
navigators.
Personafication
A personification happens when a non-living thing is given
human traits.
- In the sonnet, the speaker uses personification to describe
love as having "rosy lips and cheeks" and time as arching its
scythe.

Alliteration
is the continuous repetition of initial consonant sounds.

- Alliteration is shown in the sonnet by the rapid sequence of

the words "marriage," "minds," "whose," and "value."
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which the whole or a part is
represented by the other.
- This sonnet has a case of synecdoche, where the concrete
image of red lips and cheeks replaces the abstract idea of
beauty. Another example of synecdoche (abstract for
concrete) is when the concrete lovers who are faithful to
"each other" are represented by the abstract "genuine minds."
 RHYME WORDS
shaken-taken
weeks-cheeks
minds-finds
mark-bark

PUNCTUATION MARKS
comma ,
hyphen -
apostrophe '
period .
colon :
semi-colon ;

RHYME SCHEME
abab cdcd efef gg

LINES
14 lines

1. What does the sonnet wants to convey?

The sonnet expresses Shakespeare' s view on love. He
claimed that true love never changes and that if it did, it
was never real to begin with. Shakespeare includes a
reference to time in the verse. In spite of the fact that the
persons in a relationship may change, he emphasizes that
time knows no bounds and that love never fades.
2. What is the literary piece all about? Cite some
words that proves your answer.
Shakespeare wrote a poem titled Sonnet 116. The speaker
contends that true love does not change even if lovers
change over time, which is the book' s main premise. It is
composed in iambic pentameter, just like practically all of
Shakespeare' s sonnets (Blakely & Thomas, 2022).
 This sonnet makes an effort to define love by outlining
both its qualities and shortcomings. The speaker claims in
the opening quatrain that love is perfect and unchanging,
that it is "the marriage of honest minds," and that it does
not alter when it observes changes in the one it loves
(SparkNotes Editors, 2022).

3. Explain the last two lines.

Shakespeare shows his everlasting commitment to his
understanding of love in the final two lines of sonnet 116.
He claimed that if anyone could disprove his theory of love,
he had never written those lines and no man had ever
fallen in love. He is adamant that love is real, true, and
eternal, as seen by the last two lines.