Sonnet 116

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Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark 5
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come: 10
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

In context, "true" (line 1) is most likely synonymous with *

2 points

correct

precise

rational

loyal

Lines 2-4 ("Love is not... finds") can BEST be paraphrased as *

2 points

Love changes as circumstances change.

Love is not subservient to status or distance.

Friends need to change to keep their friendship fresh.

It is hard to maintain a friendship with someone who refuses to change.

Option 5

A synecdoche is a literary device in which a part represents a whole. This device appears in line *

2 points

Option 5

The metaphors in lines 1-9 establish a contrast between *

2 points

stasis and change

life and death

comedy and tragedy

beauty and ugliness

The antecedent of "his" (lines 10 and 11) is *

2 points

star

height

Time

cheek

The couplet (lines 13-14) employs a *

2 points

litotes, or ironic understatement

synecdoche, where the part represents a whole

allusion, a reference to another work of literature

hyperbole, or ironic exaggeration

How does the sonnet exhibit the poet's wit? *

3 points

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