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- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
- Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
- If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
- If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
- I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
- But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
- And in some perfumes is there more delight
- Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
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- 1. The poet says
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- A. her eyes are like the sun
- B. her lips are redder than coral
- C. her hair is like black wire
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- B
- Correct.
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- B
- (C) He says her hair is like black wire.
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- B
- I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
- That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
- I grant I never saw a goddess go;
- My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
- And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
- As any she belied with false compare.
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- 1. The poet is trying to
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- A. show how ridiculous it is to compare women to nature
- B. show how perfect his mistress is
- C. accurately describe his mistress
- D. anger his mistress by insulting her
- E. show that looks are not important
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- 2
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- (E) The poet is showing us that looks are not important.
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- 2. The form used by the poet is
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- A. haiku
- B. elegy
- C. sonnet
- D. ode
- E. ballad
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- C
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- (C) The poem is written in the sonnet form.
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- C
- Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
- That they behold, and see not what they see?
- They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
- Yet what the best is take the worst to be.
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- 1. The poet
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- A. is in love
- B. thought he was in love but now realizes he was not in love
- C. thinks love is foolish
- D. wishes he were in love
- E. has found the one he loved to be imperfect
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- (E) He has realized that love has blinded him to his beloved's imperfections.
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- D
- If eyes corrupt by over-partial looks
- Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
- Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,
- Whereto the judgement of my heart is tied?
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- 1. The poet is accusing the one he loves of
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- A. plotting to leave him
- B. flirting with other men
- C. being promiscuous
- D. lying to him
- E. pretending to be wealthy
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- E
- Correct.
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- E
- (C) He is accusing her of being promiscuous.
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- Why should my heart think that a several plot
- Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?
- Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not,
- To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
- In things right true my heart and eyes have err'd;
- And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.
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- 1. The tone of this sonnet is
- A. humorous
- B. vituperative
- C. solemn
- D. neutral
- E. melancholy
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- 2
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- (B) This sonnet abuses, or vituperates, the poet's promiscuous mistress.
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- 2. Which of the following would be the best title for this poem?
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- A. Love is Blind
- B. Love is a Many Splendored Thing
- C. Love in the Afternoon
- D. Yesterday's Love
- E. Love Me or Leave Me
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- F
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- (A) Since this poem tells of the poet's misjudgment of his mistress, the
- best title would be "Love is Blind."
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