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QuizMultiple Choice

Analyzing Different Interpretations of a Sonnet

Question 8 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”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 delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat 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.

Answer
A
“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”
B
“If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.”
C
“I have seen roses damask'd, red and white”
D
“And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare”
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