–9. READ THE POEM CAREFULLY AND THEN CHOOSE THEANSWERS TO T...

Questions 1–9. Read the poem carefully and then choose theanswers to the questions.

Sonnet 18

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

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Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.—William Shakespeare2. What is the poet’s message?1. Which of the following is an example ofpersonification?(A) Summer and his beloved are similar.(B) The sun reflects the beauty of a(A) “darling buds of May” (line 3)(B) “summer’s lease” (line 4)woman.(C) “his gold complexion” (line 6)(C) All things fade in time.(D) “nature’s changing course’ (line 8)(D) His beloved’s nature and beauty will(E) “eyes can see” (line 13)never diminish.(E) Death will conquer beauty.

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3. Which of the following best characterizes7. The word “shade” in line 11 is a metaphorthe speaker?for(A) An individual with great knowledge(A) phantom.and interest in nature and natural(B) place of the dead.(C) secluded place.science(D) darkness.(B) A jilted lover(E) area away from the sun.(C) A person speaking to his beloved(D) An individual reminiscing as he faces8. What is the meaning of the couplet?death(E) A woman mourning her lost beauty(A) The beloved will be immortal throughothers’ reading of the poem.4. What are the metaphors in lines 1 through(B) Loved ones fare better than a8 designed to declare?summer’s day.(A) The speaker’s beloved is more(C) Death will not come to the beloved.beautiful than a summer’s day, and(D) Summer, like the beloved, is eternal.(E) As long as people breathe or see, theher beauty does not waver.(B) The sun, on a summer’s day, shinesbeloved will be remembered.especially bright on the loved one.9. Which of the following could be consid-(C) The loved one is as beautiful as theered the thesis of the poem?eye of heaven.(D) Death steals beauty from everyone.I. The beloved is nature’s eternal(E) In the speaker’s eyes, his beloved issummer.as lovely as gold.II. The lover’s beauty will never fade.III. The poem ensures immortality for the5. What is the meaning of the word “lease” inbeloved.line 4?(A) I only(A) A contract granting occupation of a(B) I and IIproperty(C) II and III(B) A period of time(D) I and III(C) The end of summer(E) I, II, and III(D) The speaker’s understanding ofsummer(E) A grant to use, in this case, to enjoythe summer6. What figure of speech occurs in line 11?(A) Simile(B) Metaphor(C) Personification(D) Alliteration

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