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QuizMultiple Choice

8.7: Analyzing Different Interpretations of a Sonnet

Question 17 • MO-English Language Arts 10 A-CR

Read these lines from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100.”Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,If Time have any wrinkle graven there;If any, be a satire to decay,And make Time's spoils despised every where.Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.

Answer
A
carved
B
removed
C
hating
D
decaying

Explanation

“Graven” means engraved or carved into a surface. In the line, Time has supposedly “graven” a wrinkle on the beloved’s face, meaning Time has carved or etched it there. So the correct choice is “carved.”

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