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Question 1

In the context of poetry, what is the best definition of tone?

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the speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the poem

Question 2

In poetry, the term speaker refers to the

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narrator.

Question 3

What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?

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A Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and ends with a couplet.

Question 4

What is a couplet, in the context of a Shakespearean sonnet?

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the final two lines

Question 5

Read the last two lines of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.” And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare. Which context clue best supports the definition of belied as "contradicted” or "disproved”?

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“false compare”

Question 6

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.” What is the central idea of the first quatrain?

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My mistress is not as beautiful as nature.

Question 7

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.” What is the best paraphrase of line 12?

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Like everyone, she walks on the ground.

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